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Dance - Technique and Repertory Course
  
  
  

  • DANC 071. Salsa Dance/Drumming

    This course provides an opportunity to learn both the dance and basis for drumming of Cuban salsa, Dominican merengue and Brazilian samba with an emphasis on salsa. Students will gain an understanding and practice of pulse, meter and the polyrhythmic structure underlying Afro/Caribbean music generally; hand techniques for conga; and improvisation and composition for both the dance and drumming. We will use a form of “street” notation in order to write/read/remember the various rhythms.
    No prerequisite required and no experience in dance or music necessary.
    (Cross-listed as MUSI 071 )
    0.5 credit or P.E. credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
    Music and Dance: Dance 


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  • DANC 073B. Community Arts Internship

    This course provides students with the opportunity to conduct a supervised internship at various arts organizations in Chester and Philadelphia following an introduction to such work through enrollment in DANC 004 ./MUSI 006 . The Arts as Social Change. Individual placements will be arranged with the assistance of a faculty supervisor. Students will devote a minimum of six hours per week to their internships. Reflective papers and reports will be required.
    Prerequisite or co-requisite: DANC 004 /MUSI 006  or with permission of instructor.
    0.5 credit.
    Offered every semester.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 077B. Anthropology of Performance

    This course will introduce various approaches to the study of visual anthropology as it relates to movement, body, culture, and power. It will examine theoretical approaches ranging from semiotics of the body, communication theory, and phenomenology to the more recent approaches drawing on performance, postcolonial, post-structural, and feminist theories. It will also examine how anthropological issues in dance or performance are closely tied to issues of modernity, regional and national identity, gender, and politics. Various ethnographies and literature from dance studies, media and film studies, and feminist studies will be included in the course material. It will also require students to view videos to engage in visual analysis.
    Writing course.
    (Cross-listed as SOAN 077B)
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 078. Dance/Drum Ensemble

    A repertory class in which students will learn, rehearse and perform traditional Ghanaian dances and drumming, and a contemporary movement/rhythm piece consisting of both ‘found’ percussion ‘discovered’ movement. Participants will be encouraged to both play the rhythms and learn the dance/movement. Students will be expected to attend additional ensemble rehearsals.
    Eligible for BLST credit.
    (Cross-listed as MUSI 078 )
    Performance: LPAC main stage, first week of December as part of the fall student dance concert. Jeannine Osayande (dance) and Wesley Rast and Alex Shaw (drumming) are guest artists.
    0.5 academic credit or P.E. credit.
    Fall 2014. Osayande and guest artists.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 079. Dancing Desire in Bollywood Films

    This course will explore the shifts in sexuality and gender constructions of Indian women from national to transnational symbols through the dance sequences in Bollywood. We will examine the place of erotic in reconstructing gender and sexuality from past notions of romantic love to desires for commodity. The primary focus will be centered on approaches to the body from anthropology and sociology to performance, dance, and film and media studies.
    Eligible for ASIA, FMST, or GSST credit.
    (Cross-listed as SOAN 079B)
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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Dance
  

  • DANC 092. Independent Study

    Available on an individual or group basis, this course offers students an opportunity to do special work with performance or compositional emphasis in areas not covered by the regular curriculum. Students will meet with supervising faculty on a weekly basis and present performances and/or written reports to the faculty supervisor, as appropriate. Permission must be obtained from the program director and from the supervising faculty.
    Students with whom the student choreographer works and who commit to 3 hours rehearsal time weekly, may receive PE credit under DANC 011A  Dance Production Practicum. The project culminates in a public performance.
    1 credit.
    Each semester. Staff.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 093. Directed Reading

    Available on an individual or group basis, this course offers students an opportunity to do special work with theoretical or historical emphasis in areas not covered by the regular curriculum. Students will meet with a faculty supervisor weekly and present written reports to the faculty supervisor. Permission must be obtained from the program director and from the supervising faculty.
    1 credit.
    Each semester. Staff.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 094. Senior Project

    Intended for seniors pursuing the special major or the major in course or honors, this project is designed by the student in consultation with a dance faculty adviser. The major part of the semester is spent conducting independent rehearsals in conjunction with weekly meetings under an adviser’s supervision. The project culminates in a public presentation and the student’s written documentation of the process and the result. An oral response to the performance and to the documentation follows in which the student, the adviser, and several other members of the faculty participate. In the case of honors majors, this also involves external examiners. Proposals for such projects must be submitted to the dance faculty for approval during the semester preceding enrollment.
    Prerequisite: Previous or concurrent enrollment in an advanced-level technique course or demonstration of advanced-level technique.
    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.
    Each semester. Staff.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 095. Senior Thesis

    Intended for senior majors or minors, the thesis is designed by the student in consultation with a dance faculty adviser. The major part of the semester is spent conducting independent research in conjunction with weekly tutorial meetings under an adviser’s supervision. The final paper is read by a committee of faculty members or, in the case of honors majors, by external examiners who then meet with the student for evaluation of its contents. Proposals for a thesis must be submitted to the dance faculty for approval during the semester preceding enrollment.
    1 or 2 credits.
    Each semester. Staff.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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  • DANC 096. Senior Thesis

    Intended for senior majors or minors, the thesis is designed by the student in consultation with a dance faculty adviser. The major part of the semester is spent conducting independent research in conjunction with weekly tutorial meetings under an adviser’s supervision. The final paper is read by a committee of faculty members or, in the case of honors majors, by external examiners who then meet with the student for evaluation of its contents. Proposals for a thesis must be submitted to the dance faculty for approval during the semester preceding enrollment.
    1 or 2 credits.
    Each semester. Staff.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/dance-program
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Economics
  

  • ECON 001. Introduction to Economics

    Covers the fundamentals of microeconomics and macroeconomics: supply and demand, market structures, income distribution, fiscal and monetary policy in relation to unemployment and inflation, economic growth, and international economic relations. Focuses on the functioning of markets as well as on the rationale for and the design of public policy.
    Prerequisite for all further work in economics.
    1 credit.
    Each semester. Staff.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 002. First-Year Seminar: Greed

    In 1776, Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations, “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest…The individual intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always worse for society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.” This seminar investigates the degree to which self-interest should be the organizing principle of economic and social organization.
    Writing course.
    This course counts as 1 of the 8 economics credits needed to fulfill an economics major, but it does not take the place of ECON 001 . It, therefore, cannot be used to fulfill the ECON 001  prerequisite for further work in the Economics Department.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 002A. First-Year Seminar: Emerging Market Economies: The BRICS 1900-2020

    Will Brazil, Russia, India, and China be the most dominant economies in the world by 2050? Why is South Africa (S) in the group? We study the economic trajectories of these countries from roughly 1900, emphasizing the roles of domestic reforms and global markets in spurring human capital accumulation, industrial development, and economic growth. We ask how international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organization (WTO) are accommodating the emergence of these countries, and what influence the BRICS are likely to exert on the global governance of trade, aid, finance, and the environment.
    This course counts as 1 of the 8 economics credits needed to fulfill an economics major, but it does not take the place of ECON 001 . It, therefore, cannot be used to fulfill the ECON 001  prerequisite for further work in the Economics Department.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 003A. Environmental Policy and Economics

    This course examines the role of government in the regulation of the environment from an economics perspective. The course will introduce the basic tools used to compare the costs and benefits of improving environmental quality and the methods used in the valuation of environmental goods. The last part of the course will focus on how government policies can be used to improve environmental outcomes.
    Eligible for ENVS credit.
    This course counts as 1 of the 8 economics credits needed to fulfill an economics major, but it does not take the place of ECON 001 . It, therefore, cannot be used to fulfill the ECON 001  prerequisite for further work in the Economics Department.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Peck.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 005. Savage Inaccuracies: The Facts and Economics of Education in America

    This course investigates the relationship between issues of resource allocation and educational attainment. It examines the facts about student achievement, educational expenditure in the United States, and the relationship between them. It studies such questions as: Does reducing class size improve student achievement? Does paying teachers more improve teacher quality and student outcomes? The course also investigates the relationship between educational attainment and wages in the labor market. Finally, it analyzes the effects of various market-oriented education reforms such as vouchers and charter schools.
    Prerequisites: ECON 001  and any statistics course (or the consent of the instructor). EDUC 014  is strongly recommended.
    Eligible for PPOL credit.
    (Cross-listed as EDUC 069 )
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Kuperberg.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 011. Intermediate Microeconomics

    Provides a thorough grounding in intermediate-level microeconomics. The standard topics are covered: behavior of consumers and firms, structure and performance of markets, income distribution, general equilibrium, and welfare analysis. Students do extensive problem solving both to facilitate learning microeconomic theory and its applications.
    Prerequisites: ECON 001  and MATH 015 .
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Magenheim.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 012. Game Theory and Strategic Behavior

    How should one bargain for a used car or mediate a contentious dispute? This course is an introduction to the study of strategic behavior and the field of game theory. We analyze situations of interactive decision making in which the participants attempt to predict and to influence the actions of others. We use examples from economics, business, biology, politics, sports, and everyday life.
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 .
    Eligible for PEAC credit.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Bayer.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 015. Economic Poverty and Inequality

    This course examines the causes and consequences of poverty and (income and wealth) inequality. Topics covered include measurement, mobility, and the impact of globalization, technical change, taxation, and aid. Micro interventions and macro initiatives are contrasted. Public policies and programs aimed at prevention, alleviation, and redistribution are analyzed and evaluated. The developed and developing country contexts are considered.
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 .
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Jefferson.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 021. Intermediate Macroeconomics

    The goal of this course is to give the student a thorough understanding of the actual behavior of the macroeconomy and the likely effects of government stabilization policy. Models are developed of the determination of output, interest rates, prices, inflation, and other aggregate variables such as fiscal and trade surpluses and deficits. Students analyze conflicting views of business cycles, stabilization policy, and inflation/unemployment trade-offs.
    Prerequisites: ECON 001  and MATH 015 . Freshmen need the consent of the professor.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Kuperberg.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 031. Introduction to Econometrics

    This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of applied quantitative analysis in economics. Following a brief discussion of probability, statistics, and hypothesis testing, this course emphasizes using regression analysis to understand economic relationships and to test their statistical significance. Computer exercises provide practical experience in using these quantitative methods.
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 .
    1 credit.
    Each semester. Wang.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 033. Financial Accounting

    This course is designed to provide students with an intermediate level study of corporate accounting theory and practice as it falls within the framework of United States generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). A major focus of the course is how accounting provides information to various user groups so that they can make more informed decisions. In particular, students will learn the steps in the accounting cycle leading up to the preparation and analysis of corporate financial statements. Students are also exposed to some of the fundamental differences between federal tax rules and external financial reporting requirements and are made aware of the organizations that influence and contribute to the body of knowledge in financial accounting. Finally, ethical issues that may be confronted by the accountant are also discussed throughout the course.
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 .
    1 credit.
    Each semester. Hargadon.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 041. Public Economics

    This course focuses on government expenditure, tax, and debt policy. A major part of the course is devoted to an analysis of current policy issues in their institutional and theoretical contexts. The course will be of most interest to students having a concern for economic policy and its interaction with politics.
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 . Recommended: ECON 011 .
    Eligible for PPOL credit.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 042. Law and Economics

    The purpose of this course is to explore the premises behind the use of utilitarian constructs in the analysis of public policy issues. In particular, the appropriateness of the growing use of economic methodology will be examined through an intensive study of issues in property, tort, contract, and criminal law.
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 . Recommended: ECON 011 .
    Eligible for PPOL credit.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 050. Tracking the U.S. Economy

    The course focuses on the meanings, strengths, and weaknesses of the major macroeconomic statistics. For example, why is the unemployment rate an imperfect labor-market indicator? Why do different employment and price measures sometimes provide differing pictures of the labor market and inflation? Does indexing someone’s income to the Consumer Price Index raise the person’s standard of living? How does the Government’s jobs report affect the value of the U.S. dollar? What are lagging indicators?
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 .
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Steinberg.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 051. International Trade and Finance

    This course surveys the theory of trade (microeconomics) and of the balance of payments and exchange rates (macroeconomics). The theories are used to analyze topics such as trade patterns, trade barriers, flows of labor and capital, exchange-rate fluctuations, the international monetary system, and macroeconomic interdependence.
    Prerequisites: ECON 011  and ECON 021 .
    Eligible for ASIA, PEAC, or PPOL credit.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 054. Global Capitalism Since 1920

    This course will study global capitalism over the last century, focusing on the interplay between events, economic theories and policies. The issues to be examined include: financial market booms and busts; business cycles; inequality; the social welfare state; technological change and economic growth; and international trade and financial arrangements. The time period covers: the Roaring Twenties; the Great Depression, the post war Golden Age (1945-1973); the stagflation of the 1970s; the Thatcher-Reagan-Greenspan-Bush era of market liberalization (1980-2007); and the financial crisis and Great Recession of 2007-2010. Economic theories include: the classical laissez-faire view; Schumpeter’s theory of “creative destruction”; Keynes and the “neo-classical synthesis” advocating a mixed economy; Minsky’s theory of financial instability; Friedman, the efficient-markets hypothesis, and the “new classical” critiques of government interventions; and emerging ideas in response to the present crisis. The course will chronicle and compare economic policy and performance of the United States, Europe, Japan, and the developing world (Asia, Latin America, Africa).
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 .
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Golub.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 063. Public Policies in Practice: Establishing What Works and for Whom

    Participants in this course will examine research on specific policy interventions designed to change outcomes for individuals, corporations, and communities. Particular focus will be on attempts to establish whether such policy interventions can cause changes in outcomes for individuals, corporations, or communities. In recent decades, random assignment/experimental designs have increasingly been applied to estimate the impact of changes in policies on employment, welfare, housing, education, policing, public health, and community development. Social policy experiments and alternative methods to examine cause and effect will be covered, with emphasis on actual examples from the previously mentioned fields. Specific issues in design, implementation of such studies, the analysis of results, and translation to the policy context will be reviewed. Students will meet with selected analysts who carry out these types of studies. Students will do some analysis of data generated from quantitative studies of what works and for whom.
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 .
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Hollister.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 073. Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Economics

    This course focuses on the role of difference in economic systems. In this course, we learn how to apply the theoretical and empirical tools of economics to analyze the economic status of women and of various racial and ethnic groups in the United States, and we explore the various sources of, and solutions to, persistent economic inequality. We also examine the roles of race, ethnicity, and gender in the development of economic theory and policy.
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 .
    Eligible for BLST, GSST, or PPOL credit.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Bayer.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 075. Health Economics

    This course applies the tools of microeconomic analysis to the health care industry. We will analyze the determinants of demand for and supply of health care, including the relationship between demographic variables, health status, and health care consumption. The structure and behavior of the major components of the supply side will be studied, including physicians, hospitals, and insurance companies. The variety of ways in which the government intervenes in the health care sector-regulation, antitrust, social insurance, and direct provision-will be considered. Finally, we will study some more specialized topics, including the intersection of bioethics and economics, mental health economics, and international health system comparisons. Students will write a series of short papers, examining medical, economic, and policy considerations related to a health problem or issue.
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 .
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 076. Environmental Economics

    Introduction to the microeconomics of environmental issues with applications to the design of environmental policy. The course will cover the concepts and methods used in the valuation of environmental goods as well as the design of policy instruments and regulations to improve environmental quality. Specific topics include pollution and environmental degradation, the use of renewable and non-renewable resources, and climate change.
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 . Recommended: ECON 011 .
    Eligible for ENVS or PPOL credit.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Peck.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 081. Economic Development

    A survey covering the principal theories of economic development and the dominant issues of public policy in low-income countries. Topics include the determinants of economic growth and income distribution, the role of the agricultural sector, the acquisition of technological capability, the design of poverty-targeting programs, the choice of exchange rate regime, and the impacts of international trade and capital flows (including foreign aid).
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 .
    Eligible for ASIA, BLST, PEAC, or PPOL credit.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 082. Political Economy of Africa

    A survey of the post-independence development experience of Sub-Saharan Africa. We study policy choices in their political and institutional context, using case-study evidence and the analytical tools of positive political economy. Topics include development from a natural resource base, conflict and nation building, risk management by firms and households, poverty reduction policies, globalization and trade, and the effectiveness of foreign aid.
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 .
    Eligible for BLST, PEAC, or PPOL credit.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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Economics - Seminars
  
  
  
  
  

  • ECON 141. Public Economics

    This seminar focuses on the analysis of government expenditure, tax, and debt policy. A major part of the seminar is devoted to an analysis of current policy issues in their institutional and theoretical contexts. The seminar will be of most interest to students having a concern for economic policy and its interaction with politics.
    Prerequisite: ECON 011  and ECON 031  (or its equivalent)
    Eligible for PPOL credit.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 151. International Economics

    Both microeconomics and macroeconomics are applied to an in-depth analysis of the world economy. Topics include trade patterns, trade barriers, international flows of labor and capital, exchange-rate fluctuations, the international monetary system, financial crises, macroeconomic interdependence, the roles of organizations such as the World Trade Organization and International Monetary Fund, and case studies of selected industrialized, developing, and transition countries.
    Prerequisites: ECON 011  and ECON 021 .
    Eligible for PPOL, ASIA, or PEAC credit.
    2 credits.
    Spring 2015. Wang.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 171. Labor and Social Economics

    Students discuss such topics as the organization of work within firms, labor market operations, unions and labor relations, unemployment and macroconditions, economic analysis education, health care, housing, and discrimination, determinants of income inequality, and government policies with respect to health, education, and welfare.
    Prerequisite: ECON 001 . Recommended: ECON 011 .
    Eligible for BLST or PPOL credit.
    2 credits.
    Spring 2015. Hollister.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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  • ECON 181. Economic Development

    The economics of long-run development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We cover the leading theories of growth, structural change, income distribution, and poverty, with particular attention to development strategies and experience since World War II. Topics include land tenure and agricultural development, rural-urban migration, industrialization, human resource development, poverty targeting, trade and technology policy, aid and capital flows, macroeconomic management, and the role of the state. Students write several short papers examining the literature and a longer paper analyzing a particular country’s experience.
    Prerequisites: ECON 011 , ECON 021 , and either ECON 031 , STAT 011 , or STAT 031 .
    Eligible for ASIA, BLST, or PPOL credit.
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/economics
    Economics 


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Educational Studies
  
  

  • EDUC 014. Introduction to Education

    This course provides a survey of issues in education within an interdisciplinary framework. In addition to considering the theories of individuals such as Dewey, Skinner, and Bruner, the course explores some major economic, historical, psychological, and sociological questions in American education and discusses alternative policies and programs. Topics are examined through readings, writing, discussion, and hands-on activity, including a school fieldwork placement. The course provides an opportunity for students to explore their interests in educational policy, student learning, and teaching. This course, or the first-year seminar EDUC 014F , is required for students pursuing teacher certification.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Each semester. Staff.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies  


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  • EDUC 014F. First-Year Seminar: Introduction to Education

    This seminar will draw on materials from the disciplines of psychology, sociology, philosophy, history, and political science to address questions about American education. Topics are examined through readings, writing, discussion, and hands-on activity, including a school fieldwork placement. This course fulfills the prerequisite for further coursework in educational studies and provides an opportunity for students to explore their interests in educational policy, student learning, and teaching. This seminar, or EDUC 014 , is required for students pursuing teacher certification.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Each semester. Staff.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 021. Educational Psychology

    This course focuses on issues in learning and development that have particular relevance to understanding student thinking. Research and theoretical work on student learning and motivation provide the core readings for the course. In addition, students participate in a laboratory section that involves consideration of learning and motivation in an integrated, interdisciplinary public school classroom and provides an introduction to research methods. Required for students pursuing teacher certification.
    (Cross-listed as PSYC 021 )
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Renninger.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 023. Adolescence

    In this course, students examine adolescent development from psychological, sociological, and life-span perspectives, reading both traditional theory and challenges to that theory that consider issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. During the first part of the term, students explore various aspects of individual development (e.g., cognitive, affective, physiological, etc.). The second part focuses on the adolescent’s experience in a range of social contexts (e.g., family, peer group, school, etc.). Required for students pursuing secondary teacher certification.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 014  or permission of the instructor.
    (Cross-listed as PSYC 023 )
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Brenneman.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 023A. Adolescents and Special Education

    In this half credit attachment to EDUC 023 , Adolescence, students will focus on meeting the needs of diverse adolescent learners. In particular, students will examine the unique psycho-social interactions between adolescents receiving special education services, their parents and the educators who work with them. Students will also explore strategies for addressing specific cognitive and academic needs of these adolescents in literacy, content area learning, and transitions out of school. Course includes a field placement. Required for students pursuing secondary teacher certification.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 026 /PSYC 026  (can be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor. EDUC 023  can be taken concurrently with EDUC 023A.
    0.5 credit. Available as credit/no credit only.
    Spring 2015. Linn.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 026. Special Education: Issues and Practice

    This course is designed to provide students with a critical overview of special education, including its history, the classification and description of exceptionalities, and its legal regulation. Major issues related to identification, assessment, educational and therapeutic interventions, psychosocial aspects, and inclusion are examined. Course includes a field placement. Required for students pursuing teacher certification.
    (Cross-listed as PSYC 026 )
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Linn.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 041. Educational Policy

    This course examines K-12 education policy formation, implementation, and effects in the United States. Students will develop a working knowledge of the policy landscape on the federal, state, and local levels and use this knowledge to examine the relationship between policy, power, and practice. The course will examine a range of current policy topics, potentially including school finance, issues of adequacy and equity, standards based reform, assessment and accountability, bilingual education, school choice, early childhood education, special education, desegregation, and teacher quality and compensation. Drawing on a critical policy studies framework, students will examine education policies and develop strategies and projects that would support, critique and transform extant policies.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2015. Mayorga.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 042. Teaching Diverse Young Learners

    This course explores the ways children learn in classrooms and construct meaning in their personal, community, and academic lives. The course is framed by theories of learning as transmissionist, constructivist, and participatory. Students will draw on ethnographies, research, their own learning histories, classroom observations, and positioning as novice learners to create optimal learning environments for diverse learners including but not limited to English language learners, socioeconomically disadvantaged populations, culturally nonmainstream students, students with learning differences and disabilities, and students with socioemotional classifications. Course includes fieldwork. Required for elementary certification.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 043. Teacher Narratives, Policy and Power

    This course is an exploration of the lives of teachers: how they are framed within popular culture and policy, and how they frame themselves within the politics of the classroom, schools and broader society. Students will work with various critical social theories and analytical tools to think through teacher narratives, historical and sociological texts, film, policy debates, guest presentations, and other sources. Assignments will include conducting interviews with educators and producing mixed media projects that reframe educator identities.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Mayorga.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 045. Literacies and Social Identities

    This course explores the intersections of literacy practices and identities of gender, race, class, religion, ethnicity, and sexual orientation within communities of practice. It includes but is not limited to school settings. Students will work with diverse theory and analytical tools that draw on educational, anthropological, historical, sociological, linguistic, fictional, visual, popular readings and “scenes of literacy” from everyday practice. Fieldwork includes a Learning for Life partnership, tutoring, or community service in a literacy program.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 053. Language Minority Education

    This course examines the multifaceted issues facing English learners in U.S. schools. Course topics include theories of second language acquisition and bilingualism, the history of bilingual education in the United States, educational language policies and the impact of the English-only movement, and practical approaches to teaching linguistic minority students. Course readings draw from relevant literature in sociolinguistics, language policy, language acquisition, educational anthropology, and language pedagogy. Through fieldwork and small group projects, students have the opportunity to explore issues particular to a language minority population of their choice. Required for students pursuing teacher certification.
    (Cross-listed as LING 053 )
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Allard.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 064. Comparative Education

    This course examines key issues and themes in education as they play out in schools and nations around the world. We will explore the roles of local, national, and international actors and organizations in the construction of educational goals and practice, using case studies and country studies to look for the interplay between local context and globalized movements in education. Topics will include immigration and schooling, equity, literacy and curriculum goals and constructs.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 014  or permission of the instructor.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Smulyan.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 065. Educational Research for Social Change

    In this course, students explore the potential for classroom, school, and educational change through research. Students will learn how to design a qualitative study in education, engaging in the processes of defining a research question, examining relevant literature, choosing appropriate methods for data collection, and analyzing data. Strongly recommended (.05) for special majors in educational studies who will complete a 1 or 2 credit thesis.
    Prerequisite: EDUC 014  or permission of the instructor.
    05 or 1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Allard.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 068. Urban Education

    This course examines issues of practice and policy, including financing, integration, compensatory education, curricular innovation, parent involvement, bilingual education, high-stakes testing, comprehensive school reform, governance, and multiculturalism. The special challenges faced by urban schools in meeting the needs of individuals and groups in a pluralistic society will be examined using the approaches of education, psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics. Current issues will also be viewed in historical perspective. This course includes fieldwork.
    (Cross-listed as SOAN 020B )
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Mayorga.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 070. Outreach Practicum

    This course is offered in conjunction with the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility. It is designed to support students involved in educational and community-based outreach in urban settings. Students’ volunteer experiences will provide text and case material for course work. Historical grounding in the construction of cities in general, and Chester, PA, in particular, will be provided. Criteria for effective practices will be identified for the range of volunteer roles in community service projects.
    0.5 or 1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Jones-Walker.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 092. Curriculum and Methods

    This seminar is taken concurrently with EDUC 093  by students pursuing teacher certification. Readings and discussion focus on the applications of educational research and theory to classroom practice. Course content covers: lesson planning; classroom management; inquiry-oriented teaching strategies; questioning and discussion methods; literacy; the integration of technology and media; classroom-based and standardized assessments; instruction of special needs populations; topics in multicultural, nonracist, and nonsexist education; and legislation regarding the rights of students and teachers. As part of the seminar, students take a series of special methods workshops in their content area. Required for students pursuing teacher certification.
    2 credits.
    Fall 2014. Smulyan.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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Educational Studies - Seminars
  

  • EDUC 121. Psychology and Practice

    This seminar focuses on general developmental principles revealed in and applicable to contexts of practice as well as practical applications of research and theory in developmental psychology. Seminar foci include: (1) use of the literatures in developmental, educational, and social psychology and learning and cognitive science to identify key indicators for assessing changed understanding and motivation; (2) preparation of literature reviews on a topic of each student’s choice; and (3) collaborative work on an evaluation research project addressing a “live” issue or problem identified by a local teacher, school, or community organization.
    Prerequisites: ECON 021 .
    Writing course.
    2 credits. (or 1 credit with permission of the instructor).
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 131. Social and Cultural Perspectives on Education

    In this seminar, students examine schools as institutions that both reflect and challenge existing social and cultural patterns of thought, behavior, and knowledge production. Seminar participants study and use qualitative methods of research and examine topics including the aims of schooling, parent/school/community interaction, schooling and identity development, and classroom and school restructuring.
    Prerequisites: EDUC 014  and an additional course in the 060s.
    Writing course.
    2 credits.
    Spring 2015. Smulyan.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 153. Latinos and Education

    This seminar explores the schooling experiences of Latinos in the U.S. from interdisciplinary perspectives, including sociology, history, anthropology, and linguistics. Course participants engage with questions around educational quality and access, language and culture, immigration and demographic change, curriculum and pedagogy, and community activism in relation to the education of Latinos. Students will study asset-based approaches to research and teaching and will use one or more of these research methodologies in a collaborative, community-based research project in and for a local Latino-serving school.
    Prerequisites: EDUC 053  or EDUC 068 
    2 credits.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
    Educational Studies 


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  • EDUC 167. Identities and Education

    This course explores intersections between identities of race, class, gender, sexual orientation and public education in the United States. Readings will draw on the fields of anthropology, legal studies, and cultural studies. Two central frameworks, Cultural Production and Critical Race Theory, will guide consideration of how social structures inform the realities of schooling and how racial, class-based, gendered and sexual identities are formed within the context of schools.
    Prerequisites: EDUC 014  and EDUC 068 .
    2 credits.
    Fall 2015. Jones-Walker.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/educational-studies
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English Literature - 001-005 Academic Writing Courses
  

  • ENGL 001C. Writing Pedagogy

    This seminar serves as the gateway into the Writing Associates Fellowship Program. Students are introduced to the theory and pedagogy of composition studies and the concept of reflective practice. The seminar asks students to connect theory with practical experience when assessing how best to engage with different student writers and different forms of academic prose. Students will interact with the complexity of their new positions as peer mentors while learning how to be a professional within this role. Topics covered include: the ethics of peer mentoring, active listening, development of written arguments, learning styles, and conferencing. This course is open only to those selected as WAs. Meets distribution requirements but does not count toward the major.
    Writing course.
    (Cross-listed as EDUC 001C )
    1 credit. It is a credit/no credit course.
    Fall 2014. Gladstein.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
    English Literature 


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  • ENGL 001F. First-Year Seminar: Transitions to College Writing

    This class, limited to 12, introduces students to the different genres of writing required at the College. Through assignments and class readings students learn what they might need to transition from writing in high school to writing at Swarthmore. Meets distribution requirements but does not count toward the major. Students may take ENGL 001F and an English Literature first-year seminar (ENGL 008 A-Z and 009A-Z).
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Spring 2016. Staff. Gladstein.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
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  • ENGL 002A. Argument and Rhetoric Across the Disciplines

    This course examines the questions of rhetorical analysis in different academic genres. Through the reading of academic journal articles, popular press pieces, and texts on rhetoric and argument, students will both deconstruct and construct academic arguments as they are presented in different disciplines. The course will explore such topics as ethos, pathos, and logos; intended audience and how to use evidence to persuade that audience; what constitutes evidence and how evidence is utilized; the use of numbers to support or respond to an argument. Meets distribution requirements but does not count toward the major.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Not offered 2014-2015.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
    English Literature  


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  • ENGL 005. Journalism Workshop

    An introduction to news gathering, news writing, and journalism ethics. Students learn the values, skills, and standards crucial to high-quality journalism. They write conventional news stories, narratives, profiles, non-deadline features, trend stories, and point-of-view articles on a beat of their choosing. Guest speakers include award-winning reporters and editors. This course counts as a general humanities credit and as a writing course, but does not count as a credit toward a major or minor in English literature.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Mezzacappa.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
    English Literature 


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English Literature - 008 and 009 First-Year Seminars In English Literature
  

  • ENGL 009A. First-Year Seminar: Literature and Law

    In this course we will explore the forms law and literature take as they work through similar concerns, determining how social systems should function and puzzling over the moments when they don’t. When does fiction appropriate the law’s penchant for articulating rights and defining relationships? And when does the legal imagination draw from literature? We will read works of tragedy, detection, confession and evasion as we sort through these questions, supplementing our conversation with critical legal theory, trauma studies, and case law.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Patnaik.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
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  • ENGL 009D. First-Year Seminar: Nation and Migration

    Drawing on novels, short stories and film produced by immigrant writers from South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, this course explores the ways in which identity and community is shaped in the modern world. How does the migrant/diasporic writer rewrite the English language to reflect questions of race and power, nationhood and citizenship, and histories of the past and present? Authors include Salman Rushdie, Edwidge Danticat, Chimananda Adichie and Mohsin Hamid.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015 and spring 2016. Mani.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
    English Literature 


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  • ENGL 009E. First-Year Seminar: Narcissus and the History of Reflection

    Narcissism seems at once reprehensible and an unavoidable part of personhood. This course investigates how, over the course of many centuries, the story of Narcissus has been reworked as a way to think about process of creative reflection and how we see ourselves in relation to others. At stake are questions of desire, gender, racial identities, and language. Authors include Ovid, Milton, Wilde, Freud, and Fanon; also visual art and film.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Song.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
    English Literature 


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  • ENGL 009G. First-Year Seminar: Comedy

    This course covers a range of comic dramas and comic performances. It will introduce key theories about comedy as a genre and comic performance as a cultural practice. We will also work intensively on expository writing and revision. Likely texts include films, plays by Plautus, Shakespeare, Behn, Wilde, and Churchill; and materials on minstrelsy, genre theory, gender, and performance studies.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2015. Johnson.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
    English Literature  


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  • ENGL 009H. First-Year Seminar: Portraits of the Artist

    We will study a variety of works portraying artists in different cultures and contexts and media. The syllabus will vary each year but may include: Scheherazade as story-teller (Arabian Nights selections), Shakespeare (sonnets), Mozart (the movie Amadeus), Frida Kahlo’s life and work, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony awarding-winning musical In the Heights (2008). Selected background and critical materials will also be assigned.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014. Schmidt.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
    English Literature 


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  • ENGL 009J. First-Year Seminar: Revolution and Revolt

    What makes a revolution? How is it won or lost- and who decides? This course investigates the literature of rebellion from the late 18th century’s “Age of Revolution” to the Occupy movement. We will read the works of not only famous revolutionary leaders, but also infamous and obscure ones, including radical abolitionists, communists, anarchists, feminists, student activists, and more, asking how their writing both interprets the memory of previous revolutions and imagines possibilities beyond them.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2014 and fall 2015. Cohen.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
    English Literature 


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  • ENGL 009Q. First-Year Seminar: Subverting Verses

    Once history, biography, fiction, philosophy, and even science could be written in verse without seeming peculiar or affected, but today the line between poetry and prose is sharply drawn. Or is it? This course will examine unconventional forms and uses of poetry-from Seneca’s Oedipus to Dove’s Darker Face of the Earth, from Chaucer’s Tales to Seth’s Golden Gate, from Perelman’s verse essays to Forché’s prose poems-to explore our assumptions about the nature of genre.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2015. Anderson.
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature
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