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German Studies
  

  • GMST 029. The Theater of Intervention: After Shakespeare and Müller

    (Cross-listed as THEA 011C )
    In this course students will read selected texts by William Shakespeare and Heiner Müller, identify relevant contemporary themes and then create their own performances.  The goal of the class is for the student to create work without distinctions between writing, acting and directing-the director as performer, the actor as the author of their own expression.  This work also seeks to remove any separation between the artist and the citizen, political thinker, and activist.  How can theater function as a performative political statement?  How can a theater artist intervene in making social change?  Readings will include Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, and Hamlet, both Shakespeare’s original versions and Müller’s contemporary adaptations.  Open to all students without prerequisite. Taught by Cornell Visiting Professor Barbara Wysocka.
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies  
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies


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  • GMST 051. European Cinema

    (Cross-listed as FMST 051 , LITR 051G )
    Setting out from the cornerstones of aesthetics, history and memory, this course introduces you to post-war directors from Italian Neo-Realism, British and French New Waves, Eastern European Cinema, Post-New Wave Italian auteurs, Spanish cinema after Franco, New German Cinema, Swedish and Danish cinema. 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. 
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for FMST, GLBL-Paired
    Fall 2024. Simon.
    Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies  
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies


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  • GMST 054. German Cinema

    (Cross-listed as LITR 054G , FMST 054 )
    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.
    Fulfills national cinema requirement for FMST.
    Humanities.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GMST, FMST
    Fall 2024. Simon.
    Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies


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  • GMST 056. Outbreak Narratives: A Medical Humanities Exploration of Literature on Germs, Vampires, and Other Plagues

    (Cross-listed as 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 German literature depicting contagious outbreaks, life in isolation, and 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, 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 German literature in English translation to explore literature on the plague, cholera, tuberculosis, HIV, as well on as vampires, we will consider how race, gender, class, and historical époques shape illness stories.  In particular, we will look at the power dynamics that code contagions either as negative (where it refers, for instance, to a potentially deadly disease) or as positive (where it refers to contagious affects or an exchange of ideas).  Authors include Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Elfreide Jelinek, Thomas Mann, J. W. Goethe, Fanny Lewald, Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka, Bertha von Suttner.
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GLBL-paired, GSST
    Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies  
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies


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  • GMST 070. Writing and Screening the Nation: A Comparative Perspective

    Cross-listed as FREN 070 , CPLT 070  
    This course explores the continued relevance and resonance of the First and Second World War across European cultural productions, be they literary, cinematic or graphics works. More specifically, through a comparative lens of mostly French and German works, we investigate how these works participate in the formation and re-shaping of national and transnational memories: the relationship between what disappears, what remains, and what re-emerges in that process.
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GLBL, FMST.
    Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies  
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies


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  • GMST 083. Crime Drama

    Cross-listed as LITR 083 , FMST 083 .
    This course looks at the history and format of the crime drama in film and on television. More than other genres, crime dramas have reflected on societies’ historical blind spots, taboos, and peripheries along with its reigning hierarchies of power, and they have debated foundational ethical parameters amidst ongoing struggles to deal with change, particularly in relation to childhood, gender, race, class, and sexuality. At the same time, shows like CSI have altered television aesthetics and spectatorship in dialogue with new forensic and media-specific technologies: What has made the crime drama such a success in different mediascapes (silent and sound cinema, network TV, cable era, and Netflix)? How have its familiar stock characters, plotlines, settings, and recognizable styles adapted? What accounts for its ability to speak to audiences across different cultural backgrounds while emanating from and representing cultural, national, and regional specificities (Scandinavian crime, American film noir)? How has the genre responded to social activism and debates over the prison-industrial complex? How can we explain serial killer fandom in the convergence era (e.g., Twitter followers responding with likes to a mugshot of a suspected murderer)?
    HU.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2022. Simon.
    Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies  
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies


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  • LITR 017G. First Year Seminar: Testimonial Literature

    (Cross-listed as GMST 017 )
    This course explores the notion of testimony as an important aspect of a literature of resistance. We investigate how testimony intertwines with questions of writing and truth, and creates a response to cultural violence. Students read theories and literature of resistance and testimony in a wide-ranging selection of time periods and cultures, from the formation of a philosophical and religious idea of testimony in antiquity (Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions) to its later development in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas. We will also study the emergence of the literary notion of testimony by analyzing works of poetry, narrative, and film, with a particular focus on Jewish responses to the Shoah, and Latin American and Latino responses to political and social repression.
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for PEAC
    Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation

     
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/german-studies 


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  • LITR 021G. Artificial Humans in German Culture

    This fifth semester course explores the uneasy relationship of humans with technology, including the most prominent forms of artificial intelligence present throughout centuries of cultural production in German-speaking territories: golems, alrauns, homunculi, automata, clones, cyborgs, artificial humans. Students will learn that many of the current challenges posed by technological developments, and particularly by artificial intelligence, are not unique to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Class discussions, as well as short class presentations, will support students’ efforts to learn and correctly use the necessary vocabulary. Weekly language games will help students retain vocabulary, review grammar, and learn new structures. Students will learn how to write an essay by producing several drafts and improving them. Students will engage literature, music, visual art and media, as well as current newspaper articles. This course serves as the introduction to the interdisciplinary field of German Studies.
    Humanities.
    0.5 credit.
    Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation  
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures


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German Studies - Seminars
  

  • GMST 100. Topics in German Studies III

    The GMST senior seminar focuses on interdisciplinary research done within German Studies and between German Studies and its adjacent disciplines (e.g. Art, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Film and Media Studies, History, Music, Philosophy, Political Science and Sociology). Since all work is done in German, GMST 90: Topics in GMST II or an equivalent course taken abroad is a requirement for the seminar. Topics change annually. Past topics have included: The Age of Goethe, German Romanticism, Wien und Berlin 1900, Uncomfortable Classics, German Media Culture.

    Spring ‘23 Topic: Time and Narrating the Self
    Humanities.
    2 credits.
    Eligible for CPLT
    Spring 2023. Meirosu.
    Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: German Studies  
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/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.
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2022. Munson.
    Fall 2023. Mahoney.
    Fall 2024. Staff.
    Catalog chapter: Classics  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/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. 
    Prerequisite: GREK 001  or permission of the instructor.
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2023. Mahoney.
    Spring 2024. Mahoney.
    Spring 2025. Ledbetter.
    Catalog chapter: Classics  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/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 .
    Prerequisite: GREK 001  GREK 002  
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Catalog chapter: Classics  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/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 to 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 2023. Ledbetter.
    Catalog chapter: Classics  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics


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  • GREK 014. Greek Prose Survey

    The goals of this course are to sharpen your knowledge of Greek grammar, syntax, vocabulary, and forms; to allow you to appreciate the beauty of Greek prose; and to read classical Greek works in their historical and cultural context. This semester we will start with a master of the most limpid manifestation of Attic oratory, Lysias, who also happened to be an extraordinarily sympathetic historical figure, a marginal (as a metic, or ‘resident alien’ in Athens), well-known to Socrates, Plato, and their friends, a democrat, persecuted with his privileged family by the Athenian oligarchic regime, then finally re-integrated in the democracy he helped to restore, first granted and then denied full citizenship, but in the end successful as a speech-writer and lawyer. In other words, this is a story with a happy ending. I plan to begin each class with a very brief survey on the historical and political context, the features of fifth-century rhetoric, or other issues. But we will also do grammar review.

    After reading Lysias’ most political and autobiographical court speech (Lysias 12), we can decide whether to continue with another oration by Lysias, read more from authors who more or less belonged to his world (Plato, Xenophon, Thucydides, fragments of the Sophists), or transition to some other text from a different time and place.
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2022. Munson.
    Fall 2024. Munson.
    Catalog chapter: Classics  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics


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  • GREK 015. Sophocles

    In Sophocles’ Ajax, Achilles is dead and the prize of his arms has been awarded to Odysseus. Can the hero withstand being passed over as ‘the best of the Achaens’?  Can he accept that in a political community everything is in flux and friends become enemies, and enemies friends?  We will be reading this tragedy in Greek, paying great attention to grammar and style.
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Catalog chapter: Classics  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics


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  • GREK 016. An Introduction to Linear B

    This course will introduce students to the Linear B script, which was used to write the Mycenaean language during the Aegean Late Bronze Age. We will begin with an overview of the Aegean scripts (Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A, Linear B, and the Cypro-Minoan Syllabary), exploring how they relate to the earlier writing systems of the Eastern Mediterranean devised by the Sumerians, Akkadians, and Egyptians. A thorough outline of the script’s syllabary, spelling conventions, and system of ideograms will follow. Students will learn the dialectal features of the Mycenaean language, for which a prior knowledge of ancient Greek will be beneficial but not strictly necessary. For the remainder of the course, each week we will work through a selection of documents drawn from Michael Ventris and John Chadwick’s Documents in Mycenaean Greek2 (1973) and the more recent anthology of Yves Duhoux in A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and Their World, Vol. 1 (2008). 
    Humanities.
    .5 credit
    Catalog chapter: Classics  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics


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  • GREK 096. Aesop’s Fables

    This course will be organized as a research workshop for intermediate and upper-level students in Greek and/or Latin. For more information please contact Professor Jeremy Lefkowitz (jlefkow1@swarthmore.edu).
    Humanities.
    1 credit.
    Catalog chapter: Classics
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/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.
    Spring 2023. Turpin.
    Spring 2024. Turpin.
    Spring 2025. Turpin.
    Catalog chapter: Classics  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics


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Gender and Sexuality Studies
  

  • GSST 001. Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality

    This interdisciplinary core course provides 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.
    Non-distribution.
    W.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GSST
    Fall 2022. Staff.
    Fall 2023. Li.
    Catalog chapter: Gender and Sexuality Studies  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/gender-sexuality-studies


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  • GSST 015. Current Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies: Transgender Worlds

    (Cross-listed as LITR 015 )
    Transgender Worlds explores transgender in diverse and transdisciplinary representational contexts such as film, literature, medical and political discourses, popular media, feminist theory and activism. We will address, among other things, the following overarching questions: How does transgender function as an umbrella term? What is transfeminism? How do transgender studies and queer theory inform each other and how do they differ? How do trans identity politics work in transnational literary, medical, psychoanalytic, political, and media representations? What does trans have to do with post-colonial discourses and intersectionality? This class is eligible for GSST and GMST majors and minors.
    Non-distribution.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GSST
    Catalog chapter: Gender and Sexuality Studies  
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/gender-sexuality-studies


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  • GSST 035. Critical Disability Theory

    This course draws attention to shifting constructions of body normativity and disability from an interdisciplinary perspective and is informed by fields such as philosophy, ethnology, psychology, anthropology, political science, and literature. Students will explore ways in which the field of disability studies both draws from, as well as informs and expands, the fields of gender and sexuality studies and queer studies. The theoretical framework of the course focuses on the mechanisms that allow definitions, social constructions, and stigmas associated with disability to contribute to a larger system of power that oppresses individuals who fall short of the norm. We will orient ourselves by asking the following questions: How is disability socially constructed? How does disability intersect with other identities? How do various definitions of disability shape and affect advocacy agendas?  What are some institutional and social challenges faced by those with non-conforming bodies? Texts include disability studies theory, critical and theoretical essays, articles by disability rights scholars and activists, first-person accounts, films, art, and newspaper articles.
    Non-distribution.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GSST
    Spring 2023. Meirosu.
    Spring 2025. Meirosu.
    Catalog chapter: Gender and Sexuality Studies  
    Department website: Gender and Sexuality Studies


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  • GSST 091. Seminar in Gender and Sexuality Studies: Explorations in Theory and Method

    This course is a history of four ideas - biopower, jouissance, post-transexual, and intersectionality. We will explore these ideas from multiple perspectives: the conditions (both historical and intellectual) under which they were articulated, the self-questioning which they inspired, the forms of critique which they enabled, and the urgency which surrounds them still. Throughout the course, we will question the distinction between theory and practice, scholarly work and real-life problems. How much work can one idea do? And what appears when we compare the life-work of these four ideas through and beyond the pages of scholarly journals?
    Required for GSST Special Major.
    Prerequisite: GSST 001 . Juniors with permission of instructor.
    Non-distribution.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GSST
    Spring 2023. Staff.
    Spring 2024. Staff.
    Catalog chapter: Gender and Sexuality Studies  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/gender-sexuality-studies


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Global Studies
  

  • GLBL 015. Introduction to Global Studies

    This course provides an interdisciplinary approach to globally shared issues, processes, interactions and systems that affect people, communities, regions, nations, and our planet.   Some topics the course examines are:  the effects of a globalized world economy, global inequality and poverty, migration and refugees, identity in a global age, world cities, media in the global age, colonization and decolonization, global ethics, global social movements.  The course takes seriously the interaction between the local and the global.  It offers students an opportunity to more strongly command an understanding of their place in the world and an awareness and appreciation of differences through cross-cultural competence as well as a greater ability to mediate these differences. The interdisciplinary nature of the course demands multiple points of entry to communicate and analyze these issues beyond reading and writing, such as films, podcasts, lectures. Each fall Global Studies faculty selects several topics for an in-depth look at the past, present, and future global landscape.
    Note: GLBL 015 is required for Minors, but open to all and will be offered every fall.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GLBL, POLS
    Fall 2022. Kaya.
    Fall 2023. Staff.
    Catalog chapter: Global Studies  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/global-studies


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  • GLBL 090. Directed Reading

    Available on an individual or group basis, subject to the approval of and overseen by a faculty member in GLBL.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2023. Staff.
    Fall 2023. Yervasi.
    Catalog chapter: Global Studies  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/global-studies 


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History
  

  • HIST 001B. First Year Seminar: Human Rights as History: From Haiti to Nuremberg

    This course takes the subject of human rights and sets it into historical motion, starting with the French Revolution and ending with the 21st century.
    Concentration: Culture and Identity; Domination and Resistance
    Social sciences.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for PEAC
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • 1c Syllabus

    HIST 001C. First-Year Seminar: Why College? The Past and Future of Liberal Arts

    Look past the brochures and the info sessions and ask: what is college in the early 21st Century, how did it get that way? Why do people go to college? Should they? This class examines the histories and meanings of higher education.
    Concentration: Culture and Identity
    Social sciences.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 001E. First-Year Seminar: Global History of Science

    This seminar explores the formation of modern science as a global phenomenon. We will trace the practices and discourses that helped to define both science (as a form of knowledge-making) and the sciences (as distinct disciplines) from the 18th-20th century. 
    Concentration: Science, Medicine, and Environment; Method/Theory
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2022. Chen.
    Spring 2024. Chen.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 001F. First-Year Seminar: The Golden Age of Piracy

    This course explores the profound intertwinings of myth and reality in the golden age of piracy, a period that is centered in the early 18th century.
    Concentration: Capitalism; Domination and Resistance
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 001J. First-Year Seminar: London Beyond Control: From the Plague Year to the Public Sphere

    The Great Plague of London (1665), Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year (1722), and the avalanche of imitations inspired by the latter in 2020 will all serve as points of entry into plague as a cultural crisis of modernity that has spawned (and continues to spawn) a vast corpus of new imaginaries of the relationship between self and society, risk and immunity, fact and fiction, private and public, law and justice, freedom and sovereignty.
    Concentration: Migration, Diaspora, and Space
    Social sciences.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GSST
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 001N. First-Year Seminar: Chinatowns: Then & Now

    ASAM 001  
    Chinatowns have long been a fixture of urban life, serving as a haven for workers fleeing anti-Asian violence, a home for immigrant families, and a hub for tourism. This course will focus on the histories and contemporary conditions of Chinatowns in major U.S. cities, though we will also discuss the development of suburban Chinatowns and Chinatowns around the world. We will explore questions including: what spurred the development of Chinatowns? What purpose do they continue to serve, and for whom? What has been their role in Asian American, American, and urban history?
    Concentration: Culture and Identity; Migration, Diaspora, and Space
    Social Sciences.
    Writing.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for ASIA
    Fall 2023. Truong
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • 1p_Syllabus_F17

    HIST 001P. First Year Seminar: History through the Lens: Latin America, Latinos, Photography, and the Present

    This course uses photographs to explore key processes in the making of modern Latin America, such as urbanization, industrialization, migration, labor, race, ethnicity, gender, disease, sports, leisure, music, food, politics, religion, and the environment.
    Concentration: Empires and Nations, Method/Theory
    Social sciences.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for LALS
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 001R Syllabus

    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.
    Concentration: Empires and Nations, Method/Theory
    Social sciences.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2023. B. Dorsey.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • 1u syllabus [pdf]

    HIST 001U. First-Year Seminar: Defining an “Us”: Nationalism, Culture, and Identity in Modern Europe

    This course examines how populations come to see themselves as part of a single community. That community, in some instances called a nation or nation-state (or even an empire), can demand loyalty. It can also be exclusionary, sometimes with violent outcomes. We will examine the emergence of cultural and national identities in 19th- and 20th-century Europe through thematic investigations of four intertwined ways such identities might be forged: land, language, symbols, and blood.
    Concentrations: Culture and Identity; Empires and Nations
    Social sciences.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2025. Brown.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 001V. First-Year Seminar: History in the Making: Autocrats, Activists, and Artists in a Changing Middle East

    This course will examine recent political, social, and cultural transformations in the Middle East and the various historical developments that have led to them. Through an exploration of the current landscape of the region, we will use contemporary events as a window onto the past, investigating how history has shaped our world today.
    Concentration: Culture and Identity
    Social sciences.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for PEAC
    Fall 2022. Shokr.
    Fall 2024. Shokr.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 001W. First-Year Seminar: Promised Lands: European Settler Colonies 1830-1962

    This course explores European settler colonialism in Africa (including Algeria, Angola, and South Africa), Southeast Asia (including Indonesia), Oceania (Australia), and elsewhere in the 19th and 20th centuries. Students will analyze the practices and lived experiences of the European imperial project while considering topics such as intimate relationships; notions of self and identity; and economic, political, and physical domination. We will examine settler reactions to decolonization and the legacies of settler colonialism in independent African and Asian states.
    Concentration: Domination and Resistance
    Social sciences.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for BLST, ISLM
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 001X. First-Year Seminar: Crime and Punishment in America

    The problem of mass incarceration has redefined our cities, undermined our labor movement, and shaped our national politics for the last thirty years. Yet few historians have focused on the racial, economic, and political implications of this major force in our social order. This seminar will explore the historic roots of crime and punishment in American life.
    Social sciences.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 002B. Early Modern Europe: Imperial Origins: Britain, Spain, and France, 1492-1791

    Using primary sources, art, recent scholarship, and film, this course explores the origins of the modern world in Europe and its colonies between the 15th and 18th centuries.
    Concentration: Empires and Nations; Domination and Resistance
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2025. Azfar.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 002X. British History, 1066-1720: From the Crusades to the South Sea Bubble

    This survey course will trace the history of medieval and early modern Britain from the Crusades to the eighteenth century. In addition to covering major events, the course will explore how the histories of sex, race, class, gender, climate, science, technology, empire, art, culture, capitalism, religion and philosophy shape and are shaped by British histories of wars, rebellion, state-building and imperial expansion.
    Concentration: Empires and Nations
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2022. Azfar.
    Catalog chapter: History
    Department website: https://swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 003A Syllabus [pdf]

    HIST 003A. Modern Europe, 1789 to 1918: Revolutionaries, Citizens, and Subjects in Europe’s Long 19th Century

    This course surveys European history from the French Revolution to the aftermath of World War I. We will explore the European revolutionary tradition, the extension of citizenship, the emergence of nationalism, and the territorial expansion of Europe. The course will hone your primary source analysis skills. 
    Recommended for teacher certification.

    Concentration: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GLBL - Paired
    Spring 2024. Weinberg.
    Spring 2025. Weinberg.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 003B. Modern Europe, 1918 to the Present: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, Culture Wars

    This course examines historical themes including modernity, fascism, racializing ideology, student activism, citizenship, and revolution. Through close analysis of primary and secondary readings, we will debate where we can locate “Europe” in the 20th century and how we define the boundaries of the century itself. Key historical actors and important years (Stalin, 1968, 1989…) will be emphasized, but we will also interrogate broader themes and ideas (decolonization, sexuality, postwar retribution).
    Recommended for teacher certification.

    Concentration: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GMST, GLBL-Paired
    Spring 2023. Brown.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 004 Syllabus

    HIST 004. Latin American History

    Drawing on literature, cinema, newspapers, cartoons, music, official documents, and historical essays, this survey course examines the colonial incorporation of the region into the Atlantic economy; the neo-colonial regimes of the 19th and 20th centuries and their diverse and convergent historical paths; and the challenges and opportunities of earlier and current globalization trends. Emphasis on changes and continuities over five centuries exploring revolutionary, reformist, and conservative agendas of change as well as gender, class, racial, and religious issues.
    Concentration: Capitalism, Empires and Nations
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for LALS, GLBL-paired
    Fall 2024. Armus.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 005A Syllabus

    HIST 005A. Early American History

    In this thematic survey of American culture and society from the colonial era through the American Civil War and Reconstruction, student interpretation of primary-source documents will be emphasized.
    Recommended for teacher certification.

    Concentration: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2022. B. Dorsey.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 005B. Modern American History

    The history of the 20th- and 21st-century United States has been marked by the tension between the ideal of democracy and the expansion of American empire. Through analysis of primary and secondary sources, including film, music, images, and literature, this course surveys American history from the end of Reconstruction to the recent past. We will focus on the development of the “American century” and examine how the emergence of the U.S. as a world power has influenced domestic politics and social movements.
    Recommended for teacher certification.

    Concentration: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2023. Truong.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 006B. The Modern Middle East

    This survey class introduces students to Middle Eastern history from the late eighteenth century to the present. We will cover the major political, social, and cultural developments in the region during this period and examine how Middle Eastern societies and cultures have been represented over the last two centuries.
    Concentration: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for ISLM, GLBL-Paired
    Spring 2023. Shokr.
    Spring 2024. Shokr.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 007B. African American History, 1865 to Present

    Students in History 7B investigate the history of African Americans from Reconstruction through the 21st century. Historical monographs, autobiography, film, and literature reveal the story of emancipation, political activism, industrialization, and transformations in cultural identity from Jim Crow to the election of the nation’s first Black president.
    Recommended for teacher certification.
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for BLST, GLBL-paired
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • History 8b Syllabus

    HIST 008B. Mfecane, Mines, and Mandela: Southern Africa from 1650 to the Present

    This course surveys southern African history from the establishment of Dutch rule at the Cape of Good Hope to the present day, focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries.
    Concentration: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for BLST
    Fall 2023. Burke.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 009B. Modern China: Reformers, Revolutionaries, and Rebels

    This course is an introduction to the intellectual, social, and economic forces that shaped the history of modern China. We will rely heavily on primary sources as we try to reconstruct the plural, contradictory, and fluid ways in which Chinese intellectual and political leaders viewed themselves as “modern.”
    Concentration: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for ASIA
    Fall 2023. Chen.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 010. Asian American History

    This course explores how “Asian America” came to be. We will begin with the historical experiences of Asians in the U.S., examine the origins of the term “Asian American” in the movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and consider its current contested usage as a demographic category.
    Concentration: Culture and Identity, Domination and Resistance
    Social Sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for ASIA
    Fall 2022. Truong.
    Spring 2024. Truong.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 020. Leviathan’s Revenge: Reading Thomas Hobbes in 2022

    Centered on Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651), this course will trace a counter-history of Western political thought starting with the Ancients and ending in the present moment when Hobbes’ famous mythical entity-at once machine, monster, and idol-continues to inspire paradigm shifts in the humanities and social sciences.
    Concentration: Domination and Resistance
    Prerequisite: Department prerequisite of previous course in the Humanities.
    Social Sciences.
    1 credit.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 021. London Beyond Control: Sex, Fiction, and the Law

    The Great Plague of London (1665), Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year (1722), and the avalanche of imitations inspired by the latter in 2020 will all serve as points of entry into plague as a cultural crisis of modernity that has spawned (and continues to spawn) a vast corpus of new imaginaries of the relationship between self and society, risk and immunity, fact and fiction, private and public, law and justice, freedom and sovereignty. 
    Prerequisite: Prior course in the Humanities or instructor approval.
    Social sciences.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GSST
    Spring 2023. Azfar.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 022. Empire, Slavery, and the University

    Centered around Craig Steven Wilder’s Ebony and Ivy, and covering a period from the early 17th to late 19th centuries, this course will explore the central role that has been played by American and British universities in the histories of racial capitalism, white supremacy, and global empire. 
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for BLST
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 023. Enlightenment and Empire, 1776-1803

    The course will hone into the tensions that surround the project of liberal empire by focusing on their articulation and contestation in Europe, America, and India during the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century. Case studies of specific topics like antislavery boycotts and the impeachment trials of colonial governors will be used to delve into the role of Enlightenment and empire in the invention of race, sex, science, knowledge, liberty, capitalism, and ideologies of humanitarianism. 
    Concentration: Domination and Resistance
    Prerequisite: Department prereq of previous history course; no first-years without permission of the instructor.
    Social sciences.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 023B. Climate Enlightenments

    This course is a comparative intellectual history of climate change. The first half of the course will trace a genealogy of “climate science” starting with the Enlightenment. The second half of the course will explore alternative frameworks - Indigenous, subaltern, theological, theosophic and poetic - for thinking about climate as a site of human action.
    Prerequisite: Previous course in the department or social sciences, AP/IB credit, or permission of the instructor.
    Spring 2025. Azfar.


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  • HIST 024. Witch-hunting in the Early Modern World

    Starting with an overview of major themes in the separate but related histories of capitalism and witch-hunting, this course is centered around Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici: a book that lies at the intersection of these topics. Themes to be explored include gender, science, religious war, state-building, climate change, peasant revolts, “primitive accumulation,” and the historical narrative of modernity. 
    Concentration: Domination and Resistance
    Prerequisite: This course is not open to first-year students. 
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 024B. Witchcraft, Heresy, and Demonic Possession in Seventeenth Century Europe

    Witch-hunting is often associated with a medievalism that modern science, capitalism and reason are meant to have vanquished, but in fact it was not until the seventeenth century that the Europe “witch-craze” peaked. This course will explore the work of scholars who have linked the rise of witch-hunting and the intertwined histories of heresy and possession to ostensibly modern processes of state-building, science, capitalism, legal rationalism, psychiatry, global fiscal-military crisis, environmental mass destruction, imperial violence and bureaucratic expansion. We will look at how Marxist, feminist, quantitative, literary, psychoanalytic, psycholinguistic, and traditionally historicist interpretive frameworks have continually sharpened the picture that appears in the archives, resulting in a body of scholarship that continually surprises, elucidates and unsettles our conception of power. 
    Concentration: Gender and Sexuality
    Prerequisite: Previous history or humanities course, or AP credit.
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2022. Azfar.
    Catalog chapter: History


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  • HIST 025. Colonialism and Nationalism in the Middle East

    This upper-level course will explore the vast and ever-growing scholarly literature on colonialism and nationalism in the Middle East. It will cover both key theoretical works that have helped to shape this body of historical writing as well as important monographs that exemplify particular approaches to the topic. 
    Concentration: Empires and Nations, Method/Theory
    Prerequisite: Department prereq of a previous history course, AP credit, or permission of instructor.
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for INTP, ISLM
    Fall 2022. Shokr.
    Fall 2023. Shokr.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 026. Frontiers of Capitalism

    This course explores key questions about power, agency, and historical change that are raised by the study of capitalism in the non-Western world. In the process, it investigates how geographic, social, cultural, and ecological differences have been produced features of capitalist environments outside of Europe over the last 500 years.
    Concentrations: Capitalism; Method/Theory
    Prerequisite: Previous course in the department or instructor approval.
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2023. Shokr.
    Spring 2024. Shokr.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 027. Living with Total War: Europe, 1914-1919

    This research seminar examines the experience of Europeans in the trenches, under military occupation, and at home in the turbulent years during and immediately following the First World War.
    Optional language attachments: German, French, and Russian.
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for PEAC
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • 28_Syllabus_F17

    HIST 028. Aux Armes! History and Historiography of the French Revolution

    We examine the sites of the Revolution and its afterlives, using everything from primary source documents to household objects. We will explore a range of ways of practicing history. This will lead to discussions of nationalism, identity, rights regimes based on gender or race, and inequalities stemming from material or legal conditions.
    Concentration: Domination and Resistance; Method/Theory
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2025. Brown.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • 30_Syllabus_F17

    HIST 030. Glory Days? Western Europe’s Postwar 1945-1975

    Though sometimes called the trente glorieuses (glorious thirty), the decades after World War II witnessed upheaval in Western Europe. We will analyze these years, which witnessed the Marshall Plan, decolonization, and student protest. We will interrogate how to define a Western European space, with an eye toward empire, European integration, and the Cold War. 
    Concentration: Culture and Identity; Empires and Nations
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2024. Brown.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history 


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  • HIST 031. France in Algeria, France and Algerians, 1830-present

    As European states enact xenophobic migration policies and the children and grandchildren of migrants level demands for their rights in Paris and elsewhere, the imperial roots of contemporary European crises have never appeared more relevant. This course interrogates the history and aftermath of France’s years in Algeria, looking at topics including settler colonialism, resistance and anti-imperial nationalism, and citizenship debates. Studying the period from 1830 (France’s initial invasion) to the present (sixty years of Algerian independence), students will analyze European and colonial histories and come away with a broader vocabulary for discussing imperialism and analyzing its legacy.  
    Concentration: Domination and Resistance; Empires and Nations
    Prerequisite: Department prereq of a previous history course, or permission of instructor.
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for BLST, ISLM, PEAC
    Fall 2022. Brown.
    Fall 2024. Brown.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 032. Holidays in the Empire

    From seedy bars to holy sites, Europeans journeyed to colonized spaces to experience people and places they could never see at home. This class examines how European peoples participated in the imperial project through their travels. Students will analyze empire and tourism and produce digital content for a broad public. Students will write and help design content for a web site featuring interactive maps and analysis of these “holidays in the Empire.”
    Concentration: Domination and Resistance
    Prerequisite: First-year students must receive permission of instructor.
    Social sciences.
    Writing course.
    1 credit.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • History 34 Fall 2021 Syllabus

    HIST 034. Varieties of Zionist Thought: Judaism, Nationalism, Antisemitism, and the Jewish Question

    (Cross-listed as RELG 060 )
    This course focuses on political expressions of Jewish identity since the late nineteenth century through an exploration of the central texts of Zionist thought. It integrates biblical, rabbinic, and medieval Jewish texts about Jerusalem, the idea of Zion, and the centrality of the Land of Israel to provide historical context and background. We ask: what are the ways select Jewish sources from antiquity to modernity have grappled with varied attitudes toward land, political sovereignty, and national identity in the Diaspora.
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GMST.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 37 Syllabus

    HIST 037. The Holocaust: History, Representation, and Culture

    (Cross-listed as LITR 037G , GMST 037 )
    This course explores the roots of Nazism, the implementation of the Final Solution, the legacy of the Holocaust on European society, and the representation of the Holocaust through an interdisciplinary approach that relies on primary sources, historical scholarship, memoirs, poetry, painting, and film.
    Concentrations: Empires and Nations; Domination and Resistance
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GMST, PEAC
    Spring 2024. Weinberg.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 38 syllabus

    HIST 038. Angels of Death: Life under Lenin and Stalin

    This course explores the causes and consequences of the Bolshevik Revolution. Topics include the collapse of the tsarist regime, consolidation of communist rule, the rise of Stalin, and de-Stalinization. We explore the successes and failures of communism through a close reading of primary sources, memoirs, and monographs.
    Concentrations: Domination and Resistance
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for GLBL-paired.
    Fall 2023. Weinberg.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 039. Picking up the Pieces: Rebuilding Russia after the Collapse of Communism

    This course explores the legacy of communism in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. We start with an exploration of Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies and then turn to the impact of the policies of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin on the economy, culture, society, and politics of Russia since 1991.
    Concentration: Capitalism; Domination and Resistance
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Fall 2024. Weinberg.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 046. The American Civil War

    The social, cultural and political history of the event often called “the Second American Revolution.” This course examines the sectional conflict that prompted the Civil War, the secession crisis, the war years, and Reconstruction. Central themes of American history emerge-freedom, equality, self-determination, racial justice and injustice, economic and class conflict. This course will also explore the continued conflict of the Civil War in American memory and popular culture.
    Concentrations: Domination and Resistance; Empires and Nations
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2024. B. Dorsey.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 051. Black Reconstruction

    This course recounts the struggle for freedom and national citizenship rights in the post-Civil War era. Black courage and determination secured hard won successes despite “splendid failures.” History, fiction, and film treatments will help students gain insights into “America’s second Revolution.”
    Prerequisite: A HIST or BLST course at Swarthmore or permission of the instructor.
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for BLST
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 056. Police, Prisons, & Protests

    Police violence and incarceration have been the subject of increasing scholarly and popular attention in past years, particularly since the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and the global uprisings against police brutality in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd. This course provides an introduction to histories of the carceral state in the U.S. How have police and prisons developed throughout U.S. history? Who has been policed and imprisoned? How have impacted communities responded to and resisted police violence and incarceration? We will address these questions through analysis of primary historical sources, scholarly literature, films, and case studies of contemporary activism.
    Prerequisite: Previous course in the department or instructor permission.
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for Eligible for PEAC, ESCH.
    Spring 2023. Truong.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 057. History v. Hollywood

    A history course focused on analyzing the narrative of American History as imagined and created by cinematographers. Students will view both Hollywood classics as well as work by black filmmakers. Assigned readings will address themes of nationality, race, labor, gender, and political activism. 
    This course is not open to first year students.
    Prerequisite: Department prereq of a previous history course
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 060. The East India Company, 1600-1857

    The course explores the history of the East India Company, paying special attention to the 18th century and attending to how the history of the East India Company engages questions of capitalism, empire, race, justice, and modernity.
    Concentration: Capitalism; Migration, Diaspora, and Space
    Prerequisite: A HU or SS course within TriCo.
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for ASIA, GLBL-Paired
    Fall 2024. Azfar.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 061. From the Ocean to the River: The Indus and the Ganges in Global History

    How would our picture of global history change if we shifted the central unit from oceans to rivers? In this course, we will explore this question from multiple angles, centering our inquiry around a set of questions raised by the intertwined histories of the Indus and Mississippi rivers in the mid-19th century. Literary sources, works of cinema and primary sources will enrich our inquiry. 
    Prerequisite: Previous course in the department or humanities, or instructor permission.
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for ASIA, ENVS
    Spring 2023. Azfar.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 063. History from Below: Oral History and Community-based Archives

    How do historians document the experiences of ordinary people and communities that have been left out of dominant narratives? This course introduces students to the practice of oral history and the construction of community-based archives as two ways scholars and practitioners have addressed silences and absences in historical record.
    Prerequisite: Previous course in the department or instructor permission. 
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Spring 2023. Truong.
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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  • HIST 063S. Voices of the Past: Between Oral History and Memory

    An examination of the possibilities and limitations of oral history in the reconstruction of the past. After an in-depth discussion of key works in the field and an initial exposure to specific methodologies, each student will develop his/her oral history research project.
    Concentration: Culture and Identity
    Social sciences.
    1 credit.
    Eligible for LALS
    Catalog chapter: History  
    Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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