College Bulletin 2023-2024
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ASAM 047A. Asian American Literature and Culture (Cross-listed as ENGL 047A ) Asians resurface in U.S. national culture from time to time, remembered anew amid perennial forgetting. To what extent does this (in)visibility betray a constitutive role in history? Through literary and cultural texts as well as ethnic historiography and criticism, this course charts the shifting place of Asians in modern America-as activists, transnational holders of capital, immigrants, family members, coolies, migrant laborers, colonized “nationals,” “internees,” refugees, diasporic/hybrid/futuristic subjects of color, alien suspects, and artists-by examining im/migration, empire’s wars, and the interracial future/diaspora. In providing a critical history of Asian America, this course expands the foundational concerns of Asian American studies as a field toward a transpacific and continental Asia/America while exploring minor adoptions of and resistances to Western politics, economics, and aesthetics. Readings may include Crazy Rich Asians, The Year of the Dragon, Philippine-American War political cartoons, America is in the Heart, Obasan, Dictee, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Tropic of Orange, Homeland Elegies, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Immigrant Acts, Compositional Subjects, Coolies and Cane, Impossible Subjects, The Oriental Obscene, Partly Colored, Alien Capital, and Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation. This course may be combined with another in the 47 series into an Honors Preparation course (pending instructor approval).
20th/21st c. Prerequisite: At least one W course.
Recommended before or while taking the course: HIST 05B or HIST 010. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA, GLBL-paired. Fall 2023. Ku. Fall 2024. Ku. Catalog chapter: Asian American Studies Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/asian-american-studies
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ASAM 047C. Asian American Gender/Sexuality/Species (Cross-listed as ENGL 047C) Asian Americans are typically represented as either the model minority, the immigrant whose successful assimilation serves to discipline other minorities, or the yellow peril, the eternal foreigner threatening to invade (including from within). How are these figures not only racial but also gendered and sexual, ultimately rooted in the fear that the other may not be human-and that this other will encroach upon the self, reveal the human as other? In what ways do gender, sexuality, and animality, in turn, challenge, even undermine, race? This course zeroes in on Asian/American gender/sexuality to examine the intertwined constitution and irreducible contradictions of desire, power, and identity while keeping an eye on the animal at humanity’s limits. Interrogating the social structures-e.g., patriarchy, white supremacy, Western colonialism, heteronormativity, anthropocentrism-that underpin subjective categories, the course will more broadly think about relationality itself, with everything that it entails-e.g., (in)visibility, love, violence, beauty, abjection, friendship, family, the body, consumption, pain, joy, emotionality, optimism, fantasy, and the crossing of boundaries. We will focus on American representations of Asian masculinity and femininity, Asian association in the (post)colony with appetite, and Asian reclamations of the queer/child/animal. Readings may include M. Butterfly, Warrior, The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R. R. Co., Charlie Chan is Dead 2, The Joy Luck Club, “Happiness: A Manifesto,” The Book of Salt, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, The Surrendered, Dogeaters, Sort Of, and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: At least one W course.
Recommended: At least one ENGL, ASAM, or GSST course Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASAM, ASIA, GSST Spring 2024. Ku. Catalog chapter: Asian American Studies Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/asian-american-studies
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CPSC 091R. Special Topics: Open Source Software Development Free and open source software (FOSS) has evolved into an important model of development in the software industry. This course exposes students to the cultural, technical, and legal aspects of FOSS development and provides students with an opportunity to work on a real-world open source software project and gain experience in software maintenance and enhancing software quality.
The course covers topics such as: the need for and benefits of free and open source software; open source licensing and business models; intellectual property; case studies of successful open source software projects; humanitarian free and open source software; and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility issues in open source software development.
Class meetings will be run in a seminar style and involve discussion of assigned readings. There will also be two projects in which students become involved in and contribute to an open source software project. This is a Group 3 course. Prerequisite: CPSC 035 required. Natural science. 1.0 credit. Fall 2024. Murphy. Catalog chapter: Computer Science Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/computer-science
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ENVS 063. Conservation Biology (Cross-listed as BIOL 037 ) This course provides an overview of the foundational concepts and future horizons of biodiversity conservation in the era of global climate change. Class materials and discussions illustrate central issues in contemporary conservation with case studies from around the globe. Using an active learning approach the class will include: 1) critical reading of primary literature, 2) field trips inside and outside campus, 3) hands-on experience in the field and laboratory on how to conduct conservation research, and 4) applying quantitative methods and R programming to real data. Previous experience in those areas is not required, but students should be motivated
to learn new skills.
Because conservation involves every member of society, readings will include content produced by science communication outlets, policymakers, news outlets and personal stories. The class will explore and discuss the role that diversity, equity and inclusion plays on conservation efforts, and we will hear from invited speakers from indigenous communities working on conservation projects. **Multiple accessible all-day field trips will be offered outside the class schedule. These will mostly take place during the weekends. Attending ONE of those field trips will be required as part of the final grade. Attending more than one is encouraged but optional.** Prerequisite: BIOL 001 and BIOL 002 or permission of the instructor.
For Haverford College: BIOL H200 and BIOL H201 or permission of the instructor.
For Bryn Mawr College: BIOL B110 and BIOL B111 or permission of the instructor. Natural sciences and engineering practicum. One laboratory period or field trip per week. 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS, GLBL-Core Fall 2023. Caviedes-Solis. Fall 2024. Caviedes-Solis. Catalog chapter: Environmental Studies Department website: Environmental Studies
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FMST 026. Popular Music and Media (Cross-listed as GMST 026/MUSI 005E/LITR 026) What do classical music, teenie bop, soul, battle rap, and jazz have in common? Philadelphia. This team-taught interdisciplinary course investigates the histories, structures and cultural connections between popular music and other media in the city of Philadelphia. What links sound, image, and place? How do musical expressions and genres interact with urban life at specific junctures in Philadelphia history? How do modes of production and exhibition formats (radio vs. television, club v.s stadium) along with distribution venues (record store vs. Spotify) engage with genre, gender, and race configurations? What lies at the intersection of regional, national, and global fan cultures? How does celebrity culture then and now impact what is popular and how does it affect Philadelphia’s music industry and vice versa? Providing a grounding in music and media history and theory, we will research and analyze mainstream and independent Philadelphia-specific case studies in radio, film, theater, television and social media in order to better understand and engage with the complex webs that characterize contemporary media, its production, and its consumption. Student projects will explore the intersections and interactions between individuals, ethnic and racial groups, established and new Philadelphians, city government, region, empire, and nation that have and continue to shape Philadelphia through the music and media created here. This course will be taught in Philadelphia.
Core class in the Tri-Co Philly Program. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Film and Media Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies
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GSST 056. Outbreak Narratives: A Medical Humanities Exploration of Literature on Germs, Vampires, and Other Plagues Crosslisted GMST 056/LITR 056G This Medical Humanities course invites students to pause and think about the contradiction inherent in human contact: on the one hand, we need it in order to flourish, while on the other hand, it poses potential risks. Informed by a theoretical framework that draws on insights from fields such as Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, and Gender Studies, this course offers students the opportunity to analyze literature depicting both contagious outbreaks and life in isolation. This literary examination will also allow students to explore the ethics of cure and human experimentation.
As part of a larger focus on the ways in which cultural representations of contagion are informed by cultural norms and how, in their turn, these representations have an impact on shaping and building cultural communities, students will be asked to consider the many connotations and valences of the term “contagion.” Most simply, the word “contagion” denotes a risk of contamination, a potentially lethal danger to the exposed subject. This course invites students to go beyond this literal interpretation of the word in order to contemplate the ways in which contagion challenges the notion of an isolated, self-contained self. We will find that outbreak narratives enable us both to explore the intriguing possibility of a self with fluid boundaries that is constantly shaped by a community, and to cultivate empathy for other community members in the face of shared vulnerability.
Using literature in English translation to explore contemporary reactions to cholera, tuberculosis, HIV, as well as to vampires, we will consider how race, gender, class, and historical époques shape illness stories. Authors include Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Mann, Heinrich Heine, Fanny Lewald, Namwali Serpell, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Bertha von Suttner. 1 Eligible for GLBL-Paired
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MUSI 008D. (Dis)ability: Perceptions and Music LING 008. This course is an examination of the nature of music, approached from a disability perspective. We include music with regard to the ear, the eye, bodily movement, the somatosensory system, and neurodiversity. The issues are to a great extent biological/cognitive, but interpretable via culture. We explore what notions such as rhythm, pitch, timbre, melody, dynamics, and the like mean in a variety of contexts, asking what similarities and differences there are between, for example
We consider these questions in a context of whether there exists a differentiating line and according to which people: autism, blindness, deafness … how do these ways of being affect musicking? The music vs. poetry differentiation is of particular relevance to the deaf community and the music vs. dance differentiation is of particular relevance in indigenous contexts.
Eligible for Global Studies and Interpretation Theory. HU 1 Eligible for GLBL, INTP Spring 2024. Kochavi. Napoli.
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PEAC 060. Social Innovation for Peace Denise Crossan, the Eugene Lang Professor for Issues of Social Change, will be delivering a high-impact year-long engaged scholarship program entitled, “Social Innovation for Peace” Program (SIP), commencing in Fall 2019. The program’s mission is to, “apply social innovation knowledge through practice in post conflict communities.” Swarthmore College students will collaborate with international peace and conflict Social Entrepreneur partners in Colombia, Northern Ireland, and Japan to co-design and deliver a reciprocal learning social innovation project that works towards addressing the legacy of conflict in their respective communities. At the beginning of the course in Fall Semester, students will be matched with a Social Entrepreneur partner in-country, and through classes, case study analysis, and peer learning discussion, will begin to identify, develop and prototype solutions to critical post-conflict related issues. During Winter Break and over summer students will spend time in-country working directly with their community partners to test their solution prototypes.
The “Social Innovation for Peace” Program is delivered in partnership with the Peace & Conflict Studies program, the Social Innovation Lab@The Lang Center, and sponsored by The Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility. This is a 2-credit class, over 2 semesters and requires commitment to Winter and Summer break international travel. Students who start in PEAC 060A in Fall 2019, must complete PEAC 060B Spring 2020, to receive credit for PEAC 060A. Places are limited and applicants will be interviewed prior to acceptance and class registration. For details email: Denise Crossan, dcrossa1@swarthmore.edu Eligible for PEAC,ESCH Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies
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