College Bulletin 2022-2023

May 08, 2024

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History
	HIST 063W. Living History: Archiving AIDS at William Way Catalog chapter: History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 065. Cities of (Im)migrants: Buenos Aires, Lima, Philadelphia, and New York Why do people move? Who participates in the migration process? How do local political, cultural, and economic conditions and broader global capitalist forces shape individual/family decisions to migrate? What forces mold (im)migrants’ adjustments to the new cities? When do (im)migrant groups become communities? This course explores the adjustment of European immigrants in Buenos Aires, internal migrants in Lima, and Latinos in Philadelphia and New York and their roles in the making of modern metropolis. Concentration: Culture and Identity Prerequisite: HIST or LALS course. Social sciences. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for LALS, GLBL-core Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 066. Making Sense of Being Sick: the Social Construction of Diseases in the Modern World Discussing Latin American, European, African, Asian, and North American cases, this course examines public health strategies in colonial and neocolonial contexts; disease metaphors in media, cinema, and literature; ideas about hygiene, segregation and contagion; outbreaks and the politics of blame; the medicalization of society; and alternative healing cultures. Concentration: Culture and Identity; Science, Medicine, and Environment Prerequisite: Introductory level history course at Swarthmore, AP credit, or instructor permission. Social sciences. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL-core, INTP, LALS Fall 2022. Armus. Fall 2024. Armus. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 067. Digging Through the National Security Archive: South American “Dirty Wars” and the United States’ Involvement Focusing on 1970s Latin American dictatorships, this course’s aims are twofold: firstly, a critical examination of the available scholarship on the so-called “Dirty Wars” that produced the disappearance of thousands of citizens-particularly young people-in the context of state terrorism; secondly, an exploration of the relations between those Latin American dictatorships and the United States through a rigorous research exercise using the National Security Archive and other primary sources. Concentrations: Empires and Nations; Method/Theory Prerequisite: At least one course in history or professor permission. Social sciences. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for LALS, PEAC Spring 2025. Armus. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 067T. The Pandemic of Cigarette Smoking: Habit, Addiction and Public Health in the Big Tobacco Archives This course examines the worldwide transformation of cigarette smoking from a celebrated and well-accepted habit into a medicalized, risky, and regulated practice. We will research the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Archive, an online repository with thousands of documents produced by the deceptive workings of big American tobacco corporations aiming at undermining the medicalization of the cigarette smoking habit worldwide. Individual or group research projects might deal with the Latin American region or other areas of the world. Prerequisite: HIST or LALS course. Social Sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL-paired, LALS Spring 2023. Armus. Catalog chapter: History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 069. History of TV in the Americas LALS 069 This course chronicles the cultural history of television in the Americas from its experimental phase in the early 20^th century to present-day streaming wars. Over the course of the semester, we will analyze the relationship between television, culture, and politics to better understand the role of the medium in society. By taking a hemispheric approach, this course also emphasizes the transnational currents that shaped national identities on the screen and transmitted them across the Americas. It asks, does television shape the nation or reflect it? How has politics informed the development of television programming? How has television shaped the US understanding of Latin America/Latinx peoples? And vice versa? Social Sciences. Eligible for FMST. Fall 2023. Almeida. Catalog chapter: History Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 075. Craft and Technology in China This course explores the history of craft and technology in China. Through an examination of different industries, including ceramics, weaving and dyeing, printing, and paper-making, we will engage with broader questions about the role of expertise, skill, and the production of technical knowledge in Chinese history. Concentrations: Science, Medicine, and Environment Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Fall 2023. Chen. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 077. Fashion: Theory and History This course traces the historical development of fashion systems and fashion theory, with a special focus on East Asia. Using textual, visual, and material sources, we will explore historical representations of dress, the politics of dress, fashion and the body, and consumption and modernity. Concentrations: Empires and Nations; Method/Theory Prerequisite: A history course or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Spring 2024. Chen. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 078. China, Capitalism, and Their Critics This course examines the creation of a discourse centered on the relationship between China, a nation with distinct cultural characteristics, and capitalism, conceived of as an economic system specific to European social formation. Concentration: Capitalism Prerequisite: A history, sociology, or anthropology course, or permission of the instructor. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 079. Nature and Power: Environmental History of East Asia Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 080. History of the Body Bodies make history and bodies are subject to history’s movements. The history of the body, a relatively recent field of inquiry, encompasses the histories of science, gender, sexuality, race, and empire. This course will explore different chapters of that history, with a focus on Europe and the Atlantic World. Prerequisite: This course is not open to first year students. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for GSST, INTP Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 080B. Biopower vs Necropolitics: Empires of Life and Death, 1622-2003 “Biopower” and “necropolitics” - two of the major buzz-words of our time - are often used interchangeably even though Achille Mbembe, who coined the term “necropolitics” (the politics of death) in a seminal article from 2003, was critiquing the idea of “biopower” (the politics of life) as it had been developed for decades in the work of Michel Foucault. This course locates these two concepts in the work of these two scholars. We will study the periods they reference - from the Jamestown Massacre in 1622 to the “War on Terror” in the early 2000s - and look as well at the work they have inspired. In the first two weeks of the class, we will use these concepts and historical readings to create an alternative timeline of imperial history. The final projects will explore how this alternate timeline can help us write better, deeper, and more convincing histories of the present. Prerequisite: A history, HU, political science, sociology, or anthropology course at Swarthmore or permission of the instructor. Social Sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL-Core Catalog chapter: History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 080C. The Whole Enchilada: Debates About World Histories What happens when you try to write the history of everything? In this course, we will read classic works that attempt to provide a universal account of all of human history and some of the contradictions and problems that follow from this scope of narrative and analysis. We will also discuss whether universal history is inevitably tied to modern European thought and the rise of colonialism, and possible strategies for decolonizing global history. Readings will include the Book of Genesis, the work of Rashad al-Din and Ibn Khaldun, Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West, Janet Abu-Lughod’s Before European Hegemony, Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, and David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything. Eligible for GLBL-paired. Fall 2022. Burke. Catalog chapter: History Department website: https://swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 080D. Social Media and History: Workshopping r/AskHistorians Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 084. Gender, Science, and Technology This course is an introduction to feminist approaches to science and technology within the fields of History of Science and Science and Technology Studies (STS). We will engage with feminist critiques of scientific knowledge and technologies while exploring past and present intersections between science, race, sex, and colonial/postcolonial politics. Concentrations: Method/Theory; Science, Medicine, and Environment Corequisite: Preference given to students who have taken courses with ANTH, GSST, HIST, SOAN, and/or SOCI. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for GSST Fall 2022. Chen. Fall 2024. Chen. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 086. From Equiano to Oprah: Black Capitalism and Its Histories In this course, we will examine how Black individuals and institutions from the 17th Century to the present have embraced, explored and inhabited capitalism and sought to relate it to Black political and social life. We will look at Black political projects that have advocated using capitalism as a key tool in achieving their objectives. We will study Black entrepreneurs in Atlantic slave societies, in the Americas after emancipation, and in colonial and postcolonial Africa, and the role of Black consumers in mass-market societies. We will also trace responses by white-dominated institutions and by black critics of capitalism to this history. Fall 2023. Burke. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 087. The Little Ice Age: Climate Change in the Early Modern World Social Sciences. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 089. The Environmental History of Africa Cross-listed as ENVS 025 This course examines African history from an ecological and environmental perspective. Concentrations: Migration, Diaspora, and Space; Science, Medicine, and Environment Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST Spring 2025. Burke. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 090E. On the Other Side of the Tracks: Black Urban Community The study of the black community in the United States, from the end of the American Revolution to the end of the 20th century. This course investigates the link between racial identification and community formation, the strengths and weaknesses of the concept of community solidarity, and the role class and gender play in challenging group cohesiveness. Prerequisite: This course is not open to first-year students. A HIST or BLST course at Swarthmore. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for BLST Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 090P. Creatively Adapting the Past This course is a workshop focused on the creative uses of historical themes, subjects, and evidence. Social sciences. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 090S. Surveillance, Privacy, and Transparency: A History, A Debate, Some Futures An interdisciplinary course on the history and current development of surveillance and privacy, looking at technologies, practices, and ideologies. Concentrations: Migration, Diaspora, and Space; Science, Medicine, and Environment Social Sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for INTP Fall 2024. Burke. Catalog chapter: History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 090T. African Nationalism and Postcolonialism: 1940-1980 Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 090X. Divided America: History of the Culture Wars This course examines the origins of divisive cultural politics in America since the 1970s surrounding race, religion, gender & sexuality, education, and popular culture. Some of the topics addressed in the course include: the origins of the “religious right,” race and the debates over affirmative action, the “culture of poverty,” and mass incarceration, feminist and anti-feminist movements, sexual & queer politics, the HIV/AIDS crisis, public schools, and the history of “political correctness” and multiculturalism. Concentration: Culture and Identity, Domination and Resistance Prerequisite: Department pre-req of a previous history course Social sciences. 1 credit. Fall 2023. B. Dorsey. Catalog chapter: History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 091. Senior Research Seminar Students write a 25-page paper based on primary sources. Required of all majors, including honors majors. Concentrations: Method/Theory Writing course. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Brown. Truong. Fall 2023. B. Dorsey. Weinberg. Fall 2024. Weinberg. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 092. Thesis A single-credit thesis, available to all majors in their senior year after completion of HIST 091 , on a topic approved by the Department. The thesis should be 10,000 to 15,000 words in length (50-75 pages), and a presentation to members of the Department and students will be conducted upon completion of the thesis. Due April 30th or the final day of classes, whichever is first. May not be taken pass/fail. Prerequisite: HIST 091 1 credit. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 093. Directed Reading Individual or group study in fields of special interest to the student not dealt with in the regular course offerings requires the consent of the department chair and of the instructor. HIST 093 may be taken for 0.5 credit as HIST 093A. 0.5 credit. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 114. Cities and Social Movements Spring 2024. Truong. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
History - Seminars
	HIST 116. European Intellectual History: Rethinking the Scientific Revolution Centered on the Scientific Revolution, this course will explore how politics, culture, religion and empire shaped the intellectual history of Europe from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Social sciences. 2 credits. Fall 2024. Azfar. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 126. Internationalism, Supranationalism, and Transnationalism in Modern Europe This honors seminar will analyze experiments and schemes for organizing the world, ranging from realized projects like the League of Nations and the World Health Organization to unrealized projects like the European Defense Community. We will discuss internationalism and transnationalism in a variety of forms, including Third Worldist solidarity and cultural projects like Eurovision. Emphasis will be placed on the goals of internationalism, tensions between internationalism and nationalism, and historiographical debates about international institutions’ legacies. Prerequisite: This seminar is intended for honors students in the department. Social sciences. 2 credits. Eligible for GLBL - Paired Spring 2023. Brown. Catalog chapter: History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 128. Russia in the 19th and 20th Centuries This course focuses on the social, economic, political, and intellectual forces leading to the collapse of the autocracy and the rise of Stalin. Particular attention is devoted to the dilemmas of change and reform, and the problematic relationship between state and society. Social sciences. Writing course. 2 credits. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 131. Gender and Sexuality in America A social and cultural history of gender and sexuality in the United States from the early republic to the present. Concentration: Gender and Sexuality Social sciences. 2 credits. Eligible for GSST Spring 2024. B. Dorsey. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 140. The Colonial Encounter in Africa Students focus on the social, economic, and cultural dimensions of the colonial and postcolonial era in modern Africa. Social sciences. 2 credits. Eligible for BLST, DGHU, INTP Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 143. Political Economy of the Middle East: Theory & History This honors seminar will survey existing literature on the political economy of the Middle East. We will read work from various subfields in Middle East history, including labor history, social history, agrarian history, histories of women and gender, histories of colonialism and decolonization, environmental history, and histories of economic thought. In doing so, we will engage both older traditions of historical and social scientific inquiry and more recent, theoretically innovative scholarship that is advancing a renewed interest in the study of political economy and assess the contributions and/or merits of different approaches. Concentration: Capitalism Social sciences. 2 credits. Eligible for GLBL-Paired Fall 2023. Shokr. Catalog chapter: History Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 145. Women and Gender in Chinese History This seminar explores the theoretical frameworks and multiple methodologies that have been applied to the study and interpretation of women and gender in late imperial and modern China (1700-1980s). Our primary aim is to understand the relationship between the construction of gender (in particular, the formation of “woman” and “man” as fixed and normative subjects) and the writing of Chinese history. Concentrations: Gender and Sexuality; Method/Theory Social sciences. 2 credits. Eligible for ASIA, GSST Spring 2023. Chen. Spring 2025. Chen. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 148. Issues and Debates in Modern Latin America Explores major problems and challenges Latin American nations have been confronting since the last third of the 19th century onward. Topics include the neocolonial condition of the region, nation and state building processes, urbanization, industrialization, popular and elite cultures, modernities in the periphery, and race, class, and gender conflicts. Concentration: Capitalism Social sciences. 2 credits. Eligible for LALS Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 149. Reform and Revolutions in Modern Latin America The historical problem of change-political, economic, social, and cultural-in peripheral Latin America. It emphasizes nation-building capitalist ideas, populist experiences that produced deep reformist transformations, and revolutionary processes that started very radical and over time became moderate. Concentration: Culture and Identity; Domination and Resistance Social sciences. 2 credits. Eligible for GLBL-Paired, LALS, PEAC Fall 2022. Armus. Spring 2025. Armus. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	HIST 180. Honors Thesis 2 credits. Catalog chapter: History Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Interpretation Theory
	INTP 090. Directed Reading With permission by the instructor and the program coordinator. 1 credit. Eligible for INTP. Fall 2023. Staff. Spring 2024. Staff. Fall 2024. Staff. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Interpretation Theory Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/interpretation-theory Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	INTP 091. Capstone: Interpreting the Classical Tradition: Neoclassicism and Romanticism ARTH 098 CLST 091 This course will focus on conceptions of the “Classical” during the artistic and literary movements known as Neoclassicism (1750-1850) and Romanticism (1800-1850). Neoclassicism was a period of new attitudes towards Greco-Roman antiquity that were stimulated by archaeological discoveries extending from Italy and the Mediterranean to Egypt and the Near East. Whereas Neoclassicism interpreted the “Classical” as calm and restrained in feeling and clear and complete in expression, Romanticism subsequently viewed antiquity differently and as characterized by a highly imaginative and subjective approach, emotional intensity, and a dreamlike or visionary quality. Seminar topics will include: art, architecture, decorative arts and aesthetics, mythology and religion, philosophy, literature, education and the academy, cultural and political debates, archaeology, and translation. We will consider the works of philosophers and political thinkers such as: Winkelmann, Handel, Gluck, Pope, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Schliemann, Goethe and Hegel. We will consider the works of artists and architects such as: Jacques-Louis David, Piranesi, Robert Adam, Blake, Angelica Kauffman, Ingres, Hamilton, Benjamin West, Canova, Flaxman, and Nash. Open to INTP seniors and juniors, and other juniors and seniors by approval of instructors. Classical Studies majors using CLST 091/091A as the required CLST capstone must take both CLST 091 and CLST 091A. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ARTH, CLST, INTP Spring 2024. Ledbetter. Reilly. Catalog chapter: Interpretation Theory Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/interpretation-theory Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	INTP 092. Thesis 2 credits. Catalog chapter: Interpretation Theory Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/interpretation-theory Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Islamic Studies
	ISLM 096. Thesis Humanities. 1 credit each semester. Eligible for ISLM. Fall 2022. al-Jamil. Spring 2023. al-Jamil. Fall 2023. al-Jamil. Spring 2024. al-Jamil. Catalog chapter: Islamic Studies Department website: Islamic Studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	ISLM 180. Honors Thesis 1 credit each semester. Eligible for ISLM Fall 2022. al-Jamil. Spring 2023. al-Jamil. Fall 2023. al-Jamil. Spring 2024. al-Jamil. Catalog chapter: Islamic Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/islamic-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Japanese
	JPNS 001. First-Year Japanese Students who start in the JPNS 001-002 sequence must complete 002 to receive credit for 001. This intensive introduction to Japanese develops the four language skills of speaking, writing, listening, and reading. The spoken component will cover both formal and casual forms of speech; the written component will introduce the hiragana and katakana syllabaries; and about 200 kanji characters. Humanities. 1.5 credits. Fall 2022. Gardner, Suda. Fall 2023. Suda, Staff. Fall 2024. Staff. Staff. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 002. First-Year Japanese Students who start in the JPNS 001-002 sequence must complete 002 to receive credit for 001. This intensive introduction to Japanese develops the four language skills of speaking, writing, listening, and reading. The spoken component will cover both formal and casual forms of speech; the written component will introduce the hiragana and katakana syllabaries; and about 200 kanji characters. Humanities. 1.5 credits. Spring 2023. Staff. Staff. Spring 2024. Staff. Staff. Spring 2025. Staff. Staff. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 003. Second-Year Japanese Combines intensive oral practice with writing and reading in the modern language. The course attempts to increase students’ expressive ability through the introduction of more advanced grammatical patterns and idiomatic expressions. The course will introduce approximately 300 new kanji characters in addition to the 200 covered in JPNS 001 -JPNS 002 . Humanities. 1.5 credits. Eligible for ASIA Fall 2022. Bundschuh, Jo. Fall 2023. Bundschuh, Jo. Fall 2024. Staff. Staff. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 004. Second-Year Japanese Combines intensive oral practice with writing and reading in the modern language. The course attempts to increase students’ expressive ability through the introduction of more advanced grammatical patterns and idiomatic expressions. The course will introduce approximately 300 new kanji characters in addition to the 200 covered in JPNS 001 -JPNS 002 . Humanities. 1.5 credits. Eligible for ASIA Spring 2023. Gardner, Jo. Spring 2024. Staff. Staff. Spring 2025. Staff. Staff. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 005. Multi-Level Topics in Japanese Culture This four-week J-term course will present four content units, each taught by a different member of the Japanese instructional staff, featuring readings, student projects, and discussion for each level of Japanese from beginning (first year level) to advanced (fourth year level), depending on the levels of registered students. Each week will explore a topic such as: cooking and cuisine, J-pop, Japanese TV, or Japanese literature, manga, and anime. The aim of the course is to help students maintain their language skills and make progress in language learning over the January semester, including practice in speaking, listening, reading, and writing, while building vocabulary and cultural knowledge and exploring various aspects of Japanese culture. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: students must have completed at least JPNS001 or its equivalent. Humanities. .5 credit. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 007. Chinese/Japanese Calligraphy (Cross-listed as CHIN 007 ) Calligraphy is the art of beautiful handwriting. This course will introduce students to the importance of calligraphy in East Asian Culture. In addition to being a valuable cultural skill, calligraphy is also a process of self-cultivation and self-expression, which reflects the mind-set of the writer. Thus, students will have the opportunity to learn Chinese/Japanese characters not only as linguistic symbols but also as cultural emblems and as an art form. Course objectives include learning to appreciate the beauty of Chinese/Japanese calligraphy, experiencing calligraphy by writing with a brush and ink, and studying various philosophies of calligraphy. In addition to learning several different calligraphic scripts, students will be introduced to the origin, evolution, and aesthetic principles of the Chinese and Japanese writing systems, as well as calligraphy’s close connections with painting and poetry. Persistent hands-on practice will be required of all students; course work will include in-class practice, individual/group instruction, reading assignments, and take-home assignments. This class is open to all students and has no language requirement. Due to the course’s practicum component, enrollment will be limited by lottery to 10 students. Students who are also enrolled in ARTH 034 (Colloquium: East Asian Calligraphy) will receive priority in the lottery. Can be repeated for credit. 0.5 credit. Eligible for ASIA Fall 2023. Jo. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 008. Extensive Reading in Japanese This course will offer students an opportunity to develop their Japanese readings skills through free readings of Japanese materials (stories, non-fiction, manga, etc.) gathered at McCabe Library. The course will follow the Extensive Reading or Graded Reading methodology, which encourages students to build their reading ability through exposure to a broad variety of texts with minimal use of dictionaries, with the assistance and supervision of the Japanese instructor. The course is open to all students of Introduction to Japanese (JPNS 002 ) level and above. 0.5 credit. Eligible for ASIA Spring 2023. Jo. Spring 2024. Jo. Spring 2025. Jo. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 010. Topics in Japanese: Japanese Food Cultures This course is designed to help students at the intermediate and advanced levels of Japanese acquire greater proficiency in Japanese language while gaining knowledge of Japan through food culture. In addition, this course aims to help students acquire skills to become independent learners who can continue their study of Japanese independently. We will study aspects of Japanese food culture such as the differences between food in East Japan and West Japan and the history of the lunch box. Moreover, students interested in cooking can learn to cook some Japanese food on their own. This course is for students who are currently enrolled in or have completed JPNS 004 or its equivalent. Humanities. 0.5 credit. Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 012. Third-Year Japanese These courses aim to lead Japanese students into the intermediate-advanced level, deepening students’ exposure to Japanese culture through the study of authentic materials and the application of language skills in diverse linguistic contexts. They will combine oral practice with reading, viewing, and discussion of authentic materials including newspaper articles, video clips, and literary selections. Students will continue to develop their expressive ability through use of more advanced grammatical patterns and idiomatic expressions, and will gain practice in composition and letter writing. These courses will introduce approximately 300 new kanji characters in addition to approximately 500 covered in first- and second-year Japanese. Prerequisite: JPNS 004 or students must pass a placement exam to establish equivalent language skills. They should contact the instructor or the Japanese Section Head to arrange to take the Placement Exam. Recommended: Concurrently with JPNS 012A ; provides additional opportunities for application and extension of newly acquired skills. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Fall 2022. Suda. Fall 2023. Staff. Fall 2024. Suda. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 012A. Japanese Conversation This course aims to improve students’ command of spoken Japanese at the intermediate level. Can be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of JPNS 004 or permission of the instructor. 0.5 credit. Eligible for ASIA Fall 2022. Suda. Spring 2024. Suda. Fall 2024. Suda. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 013. Third-Year Japanese These courses aim to lead Japanese students into the intermediate-advanced level, deepening students’ exposure to Japanese culture through the study of authentic materials and the application of language skills in diverse linguistic contexts. They will combine oral practice with reading, viewing, and discussion of authentic materials including newspaper articles, video clips, and literary selections. Students will continue to develop their expressive ability through use of more advanced grammatical patterns and idiomatic expressions, and will gain practice in composition and letter writing. These courses will introduce approximately 300 new kanji characters in addition to approximately 500 covered in first- and second-year Japanese. Prerequisite: JPNS 012 or students must pass a placement exam to establish equivalent language skills. They should contact the instructor or the Japanese Section Head to arrange to take the placement exam. Recommended: Concurrently with JPNS 013A ; provides additional opportunities for application and extension of newly acquired skills. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Spring 2023. Staff. Spring 2024. Staff. Spring 2025. Suda. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 013A. Readings in Japanese This course aims to improve students’ intermediate-advanced reading skills, while introducing them to the world of Japanese literature in the original. We will examine texts in various genres, such as personal essays, short stories, folk tales, manga, haiku, and free-verse poetry, and discuss the distinctive features of each genre as well as the cultural context for each work. Readings and discussion will be in Japanese. Can be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of JPNS 012 or permission of the instructor. 0.5 credit. Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 018. Manga, Bande Dessinée, and the Graphic Novel: A Transnational Study of Graphic Fictions (Cross-listed as LITR 018FJ , FREN 018 ) This course provides an introduction to the study of three of the most important contemporary graphic literary forms - manga, bandes dessinées, and the graphic novel - and the national and transnational traditions with which they have become associated. Through a careful study of major artists and key works from Japan and the Francophone world, we explore the particular histories, aesthetic evolutions, and social impact of these sequential art forms, both in their specific places of origin and across the globe. We consider how these graphic fictions have managed to mirror and refract major issues of historical trauma, technology and violence, as well as how they question representations of gender, class, race and ethnicity, even as they wield a form of “soft power.” The transnational impact that some works have played will also be explored through a comparative analysis of local and global dissemination, transnational fan communities, non-Japanese-language manga, and transindustrial exchanges. Texts and discussions in English. Students with knowledge of French and/or Japanese may read the works in the original. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 019. Fourth-Year Japanese This fourth-year level course aims to develop students’ advanced language proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, through examination and discussion of a variety of authentic materials on selected topics such as literature, language, history, education and society. Readings and discussion will be in Japanese. Prerequisite: JPNS 013 or students must pass a placement exam to establish equivalent language skills. They should contact the instructor or the Japanese Section Head to arrange to take the placement exam. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Fall 2022. Jo. Fall 2023. Jo. Fall 2024. Jo. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 020. Fourth-Year Japanese This fourth-year level course aims to develop students’ advanced language proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, through examination and discussion of a variety of authentic materials on selected topics such as literature, language, history, education and society. Readings and discussion will be in Japanese. Prerequisite: JPNS 019 or students must pass a placement exam to establish equivalent language skills. They should contact the instructor or the Japanese Section Head to arrange to take the placement exam. Humanities 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA. Spring 2023. Jo. Spring 2024. Jo. Spring 2025. Jo. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 021. Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature: Friendship and Love in Portrayals of Japanese Youth Culture (Cross-listed as LITR 021J ) In this introductory survey we will read a range of Japanese literary works from the modern and contemporary periods, with particular attention to the themes of friendship and love and the changing portrayals of youth culture in Japan. Remaining attentive to the ways in which our readings of Japanese writings are mediated by distance, time, and different linguistic and cultural contexts, we will aim to 1) become familiar with foundational literary works by modern and contemporary Japanese writers and their key literary innovations; 2) contextualize these works and their innovations within the historical circumstances of their production; and 3) trace the changes in Japanese literary language over the course of the modern and contemporary periods. We will also consider how literary, aesthetic, and social movements have united or divided some Japanese writers, and map out the broad trends in literary content and style associated with these movements. No knowledge of the Japanese language is required. Additional readings and research opportunities are available in consultation with the instructor for students with Japanese reading ability. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 022. Introduction to Japanese Linguistics (Cross-listed as LING 022 ) This course introduces various aspects of Japanese linguistics, such as Japanese phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics. Through obtaining theoretical insights on the structural organization of the Japanese language and examining linguistic data, the course aims to broaden students’ knowledge of the structural aspects of the language and to cultivate their ability to analyze linguistic facets of Japanese communicative culture. In class, we will go over the main concepts and data analyses from weekly readings and discuss relevant data, questions, and counter-examples, while going over study questions and exercises. Students are encouraged to share their own experiences and compare the Japanese linguistic structures and communicative practices with those of English and other languages. Students who take this class will develop their understanding of the differing layers of the Japanese language by solving concrete linguistic problems, enhance their ability to learn new grammatical structures in the Japanese language by analyzing them linguistically, and receive guidance in producing an objective linguistic analysis of a facet of the Japanese language. Readings and discussion will be in English. Prerequisite: Completion of JPNS 001 or permission of the instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Spring 2024. Bundschuh. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 023. Language in Contemporary Japanese Society and Media Cross-listed as LING 023 This course serves as an introduction to how language functions in Japanese society today and how language is used to create characters in Japanese media. The first part of the course will be an overview of language use in Japanese society. Students will learn about languages spoken and signed in Japan and linguistic diversity within the Japanese spoken language in particular-including dialects, honorifics, and gendered language. The latter part of the course focuses on ‘role language’ based on virtual stereotypes created and maintained in popular media. Students will discern how characters’ particular language use, from vocabulary and grammar to pronunciation, creates character tropes in Japanese anime, manga, and dramas. All readings will be in English and Japanese language proficiency is not a prerequisite. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Fall 2023. Bundschuh. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 024. Japanese Film and Animation (Cross-listed as LITR 024J , FMST 057 ) This course offers a historical and thematic introduction to Japanese cinema, one of the world’s great film traditions. Our discussions will center on the historical context of Japanese film, including how films address issues of modernity, gender, and national identity. Through our readings, discussion, and writing, we will explore various approaches to film analysis, with the goal of developing a deeper understanding of formal and thematic issues. A separate unit will consider the postwar development of Japanese animation (anime) and its special characteristics. Screenings will include films by Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Imamura, Kitano, and Miyazaki. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA, CPLT Fall 2024. Gardner. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 025. Contemporary Japanese Literature and Film. Cross-listed as LITR 025J This course will explore the confluence of literary and cinematic imagination with contemporary Japanese social and historical currents through an examination of works by Japanese writers and filmmakers active today–primarily works created in the 21st Century. Themes considered will include youth culture and urban life; precarity and social critique through the lenses of class, ethnicity, and gender; and disaster and dystopia. Writers encountered will include Murakami Haruki, Kirino Natsuo, Kawakami Mieko, Murata Sayaka, Ogawa Yôko, and Tawada Yôko; filmmakers will include Koreeda Hirokazu, Anno Hideaki, Sono Sion, and Shinkai Makoto. No prerequisites; the class will be conducted in English and all works will be available in English translation or with English subtitles. HU. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 031. Language and Gender in Japan This course aims to gain students’ understanding of how language use constructs, animates, and reproduces gender in our everyday lives. Japanese language is known to contain gendered linguistic elements, and Japanese norms of behavior have been considered to be highly gendered as well. How do Japanese speakers conform, utilize, and resist these norms in language use and interaction? How does the media use gendered language to create different characters? In what ways are the linguistic and cultural differences between Japanese and English translated? How do the differences affect the language use of multilingual speakers? Throughout the semester, we will investigate how social and cultural contexts give meaning to both linguistic practices and gender categories. Students will not only explore what we have learned about the language and gender over the past several decades but also consider how they can apply the findings and discussions into their own language use. Readings and discussion will be in English. Some knowledge of Japanese is recommended but not required for this course. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 033. Tokyo Central: The Metropolis in Modern Japanese Literature and Film (Cross-listed as LITR 033J ) This course aims to equip students to recognize and contextualize changing concepts of self and individual identity, family, community, and labor as represented in literature and film narratives depicting the urban center of modern Japan: Tokyo. Brief lectures on literary historical and historical contexts will precede guided discussions of literary texts and films. Students will be asked to consider, compare, and contrast representations of Tokyo and its inhabitants over time, using close reading, historicization, and visual critical strategies from film studies. In discussions we will also treat Tokyo’s relationship to the nation of Japan, other Japanese regions, East Asia, and the world. We will further assess how the course texts represent shifting views and experiences of the urban populace regarding family roles, romance, marriage, gender roles, socio-economic class and social status, social responsibility, consumerism, and leisure over the course of Japan’s modern history, from the late 19th century through to the present. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 035. Narratives of Disaster and Rebuilding in Japan (Cross-listed as LITR 035J , ENVS 051 ) This course will explore documentary and fictional representations of the modern Japanese landscape and cityscape in crisis, with special attention to the role of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster as a catalyst for change in contemporary Japan. Documentaries and fictionalizations of the 2011 “triple disaster” reignited debates over cultural trauma and the ethics of representing disaster. Through the study of literature, film, and critical discourse, we will examine the historical and cultural implications of such famous 20th-century disaster narratives as Godzilla and Japan Sinks, as well as the latest writing and films from Japan, in the context of public debates about safety, sustainability, and social change after the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster. Readings and discussion will be in English. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA, ENVS Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 036. Environment, Cultural Memory, and Social Change in Japan (Cross-listed as PEAC 036 , ENVS 047 ) This course will explore the history, contemporary situation, and future possibilities regarding the interlinked realms of the environment, historical trauma, and social movements in Japan. Topics will include the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings and the subsequent peace and anti-nuclear movements, the environmental movement in Japan, and the “triple disaster” earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant disaster in Fukushima and Northeastern Japan. We will also discuss how environmental issues intersect with other current social issues such as rural depopulation, an aging population, and gender and economic inequality, and study a variety of contemporary approaches to addressing these issues. Under the guidance of Lang Professor for Social Change Denise Crossan, we will study the theory and practice of social entrepreneurship as a vehicle for social change and explore applications of this model in Japan. In addition, throughout the semester we will engage with community partners in Japan, particularly in the Hiroshima area, through online exchanges and collaborative projects related to contemporary environmental and peace activism. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA, ASAM, GLBL-Paired Spring 2023. Gardner. Crossan. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 036A. Environment, Cultural Memory, and Social Change in Japan: Experiential Learning Practicum .5 credit. Spring 2023. Gardner, Crossan. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 041. Fantastic Spaces in Modern Japanese Literature (Cross-listed as LITR 041J ) As Japanese society has transformed rapidly in the 20^th century and beyond, a number of authors have turned to the fantastic to explore the pathways of cultural memory, the vicissitudes of interpersonal relationships, the limits of mind and body, and the nature of story-telling itself. In this course we will consider the use of anti-realistic writing genres in Japanese literature from 1900 to the present, combining readings of novels and short stories with related critical and theoretical texts. Fictional works examined will include novels, supernatural tales, science fiction, and mysteries by such authors as Tanizaki Junichirô, Edogawa Rampo, Kurahashi Yumiko, and Murakami Haruki. Readings are in English; no previous background in Japanese language or culture is required. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 042. Language Policy and Planning in Japan Language policy and planning is a fundamental aspect of society: it has the potential to enrich the quality of human lives or impose great conflicts and struggles in our everyday lives. Despite its image of homogeneity, Japanese society has a much linguistic diversity and a great number of linguistic minorities, including indigenous groups and immigrants; however, it is questionable if the society has provided a systematic support to maintain this diversity. Japan is also constantly facing the need to improve its language education, although, arguably, the attempts so far have been rather unsuccessful. This course aims to understand the current state of Japanese society in light of these political issues relevant to Japanese language.While learning the basic notions and theoretical approaches in language policy, the course will cover topics including historical aspects of language policy in Japan, linguistic minorities in Japan, legal issues of languages in Japan, and issues regarding Japanese language education as well as foreign/second/ heritage language education. Throughout the course, students are encouraged to critically consider the politics of using their own language as well as Japanese. Readings and discussion will be in English. Some knowledge of Japanese is recommended but not required for this course. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 051. Japanese Poetry and Poetics (Cross-listed as LITR 051J ) Japanese poetic forms such as haiku, renga, and tanka have had a great impact on modern poetry across the world, and have played a central role in the development of Japanese literature and aesthetics. This course will examine Japanese poetry from its roots in ancient oral tradition though the internet age. Topics include the role of poetry in courtship, communication, religion, and ritual; orality and the graphic tradition; the influence of poetic models from China and the West; social networks and game aesthetics in renga linked poetry; and haiku as a worldwide poetic form. Course projects will include translation and composition in addition to analytical writing. Readings will be in English, and there are no language requirements or other prerequisites; however, the course will include a close examination of Japanese poetic sound, syntax, meter, and diction, or how the poems “work” in the original language. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 053. Classical Japanese Literature and Language Change. Cross-listed as LING 013 . This course serves as an introduction to both Classical Japanese literature and the history of the Japanese language. Students will read selections of Classical Japanese texts in English with optional modern and classical Japanese renditions provided. Each class we will first discuss the content and relevance of the assigned reading before delving into passages from the original text to examine the linguistic structures of earlier Japanese and consider how the language has changed over time. Prerequisites: JPNS002 or permission from instructor. HU. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Bundschuh. Spring 2025. Bundschuh. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 073. Transnational Japanese Literature: Diversity and Diaspora in Modern Japanese Literature Cross-listed with LITR 073J This seminar-style course will challenge the myths of Japanese ethnic homogeny and cultural isolation and will explore how modern “Japanese” literature crosses national and cultural borders. Topics to be examined include Japanese authors writing from abroad, colonial and postcolonial literatures, migration and writing in the Japanese diaspora, and the writings of ethnic minorities in Japan, including writers from Okinawa and Japan’s resident Korean community. Readings and discussion will be in English but students with reading knowledge of Japanese will be encouraged to read works in the original. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for CPLT, ASIA, INTP, GLBL-paired. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 074. Japanese Popular Culture and Contemporary Media (Cross-listed as LITR 074J ) Japanese popular culture products such as manga (comics), anime (animation), television, film, and popular music are an increasingly vital element of 21st-century global culture, attracting ardent fans around the world. In this course, we will critically examine the postwar development of Japanese popular culture, together with the proliferation of new media that have accelerated the global diffusion of popular cultural forms. Engaging with theoretical ideas and debates regarding popular culture and media, we will discuss the significance of fan cultures, including the “otaku” phenomenon in Japan and the United States, and consider how national identity and ethnicity impact the production and consumption of popular cultural products. We will also explore representations of technology in creative works, and consider the global and the local aspects of technological innovations, including the internet, mobile phones, and other portable technology. Readings and discussion will be in English. The course will be conducted in a seminar format with student research and presentations comprising an important element of the class. Previous coursework in Japanese studies or media studies is recommended but not required. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA, FMST Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 075. Japanese Modernism (Cross-listed as LITR 075J ) A lively and cosmopolitan modernist literature and art scene thrived in early 20th Century Japan, as cities such as Tokyo and Osaka grew rapidly, and writers and artists established connections with their counterparts across the globe. During the same decades, stylish “modern girls” and “modern boys” in Japanese cities were hailed in the press as avatars of newly liberated lifestyles and fashions, or derided by conservatives as the dupes of corrupt Western influences. This course will explore Japanese modernist literature, its global connections, and its social context, using a seminar format. Topics include: Japanese avant-garde literature, film, and art; gender, sexuality, and modernism; the politics and aesthetics of “modern” life and lifestyles; socialist and anarchist literature; “ero-guro-nonsense” as subversive literature; wartime censorship and propaganda; and Japanese influences on global modernisms. Readings and discussion will be in English; students with advanced Japanese reading ability are encouraged to read the texts in the original. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 083. War and Postwar in Japanese Culture (Cross-listed as LITR 083J ) What was the Japanese experience of World War II and the Allied Occupation? We will examine literary works, films, and graphic materials (photographs, prints, advertisements, etc.), together with oral histories and historical studies, to seek a better understanding of the prevailing ideologies and intellectual struggles of wartime and postwar Japan as well the experiences of individuals living through the cataclysmic events of midcentury. Issues to be investigated include Japanese nationalism and imperialism; women’s experiences of the war and home front; changing representations and ideologies of the body; war writing and censorship; the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japanese responses to the Occupation; and the war in postwar memory. The course readings and discussions will be in English. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 094. Independent Study .5 Spring 2023. Bundschuh. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	JPNS 096. Japanese Thesis Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 021J. Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature: Friendship and Love in Portrayals of Japanese Youth Culture (Cross-listed as JPNS 021 ) In this introductory survey we will read a range of Japanese literary works from the modern and contemporary periods, with particular attention to the themes of friendship and love and the changing portrayals of youth culture in Japan. Remaining attentive to the ways in which our readings of Japanese writings are mediated by distance, time, and different linguistic and cultural contexts, we will aim to 1) become familiar with foundational literary works by modern and contemporary Japanese writers and their key literary innovations; 2) contextualize these works and their innovations within the historical circumstances of their production; and 3) trace the changes in Japanese literary language over the course of the modern and contemporary periods. We will also consider how literary, aesthetic, and social movements have united or divided some Japanese writers, and map out the broad trends in literary content and style associated with these movements. No knowledge of the Japanese language is required. Additional readings and research opportunities are available in consultation with the instructor for students with Japanese reading ability. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 025J. Contemporary Japanese Literature and Film. Cross-listed as JPNS 025 This course will explore the confluence of literary and cinematic imagination with contemporary Japanese social and historical currents through an examination of works by Japanese writers and filmmakers active today–primarily works created in the 21st Century. Themes considered will include youth culture and urban life; precarity and social critique through the lenses of class, ethnicity, and gender; and disaster and dystopia. Writers encountered will include Murakami Haruki, Kirino Natsuo, Kawakami Mieko, Murata Sayaka, Ogawa Yôko, and Tawada Yôko; filmmakers will include Koreeda Hirokazu, Anno Hideaki, Sono Sion, and Shinkai Makoto. No prerequisites; the class will be conducted in English and all works will be available in English translation or with English subtitles. HU. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Japanese Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/japanese Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 033J. Tokyo Central: The Metropolis in Modern Japanese Literature and Film (Cross-listed as JPNS 033 ) This course aims to equip students to recognize and contextualize changing concepts of self and individual identity, family, community, and labor as represented in literature and film narratives depicting the urban center of modern Japan: Tokyo. Brief lectures on literary historical and historical contexts will precede guided discussions of literary texts and films. Students will be asked to consider, compare, and contrast representations of Tokyo and its inhabitants over time, using close reading, historicization, and visual critical strategies from film studies. In discussions we will also treat Tokyo’s relationship to the nation of Japan, other Japanese regions, East Asia, and the world. We will further assess how the course texts represent shifting views and experiences of the urban populace regarding family roles, romance, marriage, gender roles, socio-economic class and social status, social responsibility, consumerism, and leisure over the course of Japan’s modern history, from the late 19th century through to the present. Humanities 1 credit Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literature: Literatures in Translation Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 035J. Narratives of Disaster and Rebuilding in Japan (Cross-listed as JPNS 035 ) This course will explore documentary and fictional representations of the modern Japanese landscape and cityscape in crisis, with special attention to the role of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster as a catalyst for change in contemporary Japan. Documentaries and fictionalizations of the 2011 “triple disaster” reignited debates over cultural trauma and the ethics of representing disaster. Through the study of literature, film, and critical discourse, we will examine the historical and cultural implications of such famous 20th-century disaster narratives as Godzilla and Japan Sinks, as well as the latest writing and films from Japan, in the context of public debates about safety, sustainability, and social change after the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster. Readings and discussion will be in English. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA, ENVS Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 041J. Fantastic Spaces in Modern Japanese Literature (Cross-listed as JPNS 041 ) As Japanese society has transferred rapidly in the 20th century and beyond, a number of authors have turned to the fantastic to explore the pathways of cultural memory, the vicissitudes of interpersonal relationships, the limits of mind and body, and the nature of storytelling itself. In this course, we will consider the use of anti-realistic writing genres in Japanese literature from 1900 to the present, combining readings of novels and short stories with related critical and theoretical texts. Fictional works examined will include novels, supernatural tales, science fiction, and cyber-fiction by authors such as Tanizaki Junichirô, Abe Kôbô, Kurahasi Yumiko, and Murakami Haruki. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for JPNS Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 051J. Japanese Poetry and Poetics (Cross-listed as JPNS 051 ) Japanese poetic forms such as haiku, renga, and tanka have had a great impact on modern poetry across the world, and have played a central role in the development of Japanese literature and aesthetics. This course will examine Japanese poetry from its roots in ancient oral tradition through the internet age. Topics include the role of poetry in courtship, communication, religion, and ritual; orality and the graphic tradition; the influence of poetic models from China and the West; social networks and game aesthetics in renga linked poetry; and haiku as a worldwide poetic form. Course projects will include translation and composition in addition to analytical writing. Readings will be in English, and there are no language requirements or other prerequisites; however, the course will include a close examination of Japanese poetic sound, syntax, meter, and diction, or how the poems “work” in the original language. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 074J. Japanese Popular Culture and Contemporary Media (Cross-listed as JPNS 074 ) Japanese popular culture products such as manga (comics), anime (animation), television, film, and popular music are an increasingly vital element of 21st-century global culture, attracting ardent fans around the world. In this course, we will critically examine the postwar development of Japanese popular culture, together with the proliferation of new media that have accelerated the global diffusion of popular cultural forms. Engaging with theoretical ideas and debates regarding popular culture and media, we will discuss the significance of fan cultures, including the “otaku” phenomenon in Japan and the United States, and consider how national identity and ethnicity impact the production and consumption of popular cultural products. We will also explore representations of technology in creative works, and consider the global and the local aspects of technological innovations, including the internet, mobile phones, and other portable technology. Readings and discussion will be in English. The course will be conducted in a seminar format with student research and presentations comprising an important element of the class. Previous coursework in Japanese studies or media studies is recommended but not required. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA, FMST, JPNS Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 075J. Japanese Modernism (Cross-listed as JPNS 075 ) A lively and cosmopolitan modernist literature and art scene thrived in early 20th Century Japan, as cities such as Tokyo and Osaka grew rapidly, and writers and artists established connections with their counterparts across the globe. During the same decades, stylish “modern girls” and “modern boys” in Japanese cities were hailed in the press as avatars of newly liberated lifestyles and fashions, or derided by conservatives as the dupes of corrupt Western influences. This course will explore Japanese modernist literature, its global connections, and its social context, using a seminar format. Topics include: Japanese avant-garde literature, film, and art; gender, sexuality, and modernism; the politics and aesthetics of “modern” life and lifestyles; socialist and anarchist literature; “ero-guro-nonsense” as subversive literature; wartime censorship and propaganda; and Japanese influences on global modernisms. Readings and discussion will be in English; students with advanced Japanese reading ability are encouraged to read the texts in the original. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LITR 083J. War and Postwar in Japanese Culture (Cross-listed as JPNS 083 ) What was the Japanese experience of the World War II and the Allied Occupation? We will examine literary works, films, and graphic materials (photographs, prints, advertisements, etc.), together with oral histories and historical studies, to seek a better understanding of the prevailing ideologies and intellectual struggles of wartime and postwar Japan as well as the experiences of individuals living through the cataclysmic events of midcentury. Issues to be investigated include Japanese nationalism and imperialism, women’s experiences of the war and home front; changing representations and ideologies of the body, war writing and censorship, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese responses to the occupation, and the war in postwar memory. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Latin American and Latino Studies
	LALS 015. First Year Seminar: Introduction to Latinx Literature and Culture (Cross-listed with SPAN 015 ) This course is an introduction to the writings of Latino/as in the U.S. with emphasis on the distinctions and similarities that have shaped the experiences and the cultural imagination among different Latino/a communities. We will focus particularly in works produced by the three major groups of U.S. Latino/as (Mexican Americans or Chicanos, Puerto Ricans or Nuyoricans, and Cuban Americans). By analyzing works from a range of genres including poetry, fiction, film, and performance, along with literary and cultural theory, the course will explore some of the major themes in the cultural production of these groups. Topics to be discussed include identity formation in terms of language, race, gender, sexuality, and class; diaspora and emigration; the marketing of the Latino/a identity; and activism through art. Offered each fall. Taught in English. Humanities. Writing Course. 1 credit. Eligible for ASAM Fall 2022. Staff. Fall 2023. Díaz. Fall 2024. Díaz. Catalog chapter: Latin American and Latino Studies Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/latin-american-and-latino-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LALS 055. Race and Religion across Latin America and the Caribbean Non-distribution. 1 credit. Eligible for LALS, BLST Catalog chapter: Latin American and Latino Studies Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/latin-american-and-latino-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LALS 069. History of TV in the Americas (Cross-listed as HIST 069) This course chronicles the cultural history of television in the Americas from its experimental phase in the early 20^th century to present-day streaming wars. Over the course of the semester, we will analyze the relationship between television, culture, and politics to better understand the role of the medium in society. By taking a hemispheric approach, this course also emphasizes the transnational currents that shaped national identities on the screen and transmitted them across the Americas. It asks, does television shape the nation or reflect it? How has politics informed the development of television programming? How has television shaped the US understanding of Latin America/Latinx peoples? And vice versa? 1 credit. Eligible for FMST Fall 2023. Almeida. Catalog chapter: Latin American and Latino Studies Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/latin-american-and-latino-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LALS 090. Thesis With permission of the instructor and the program coordinator. 1 credit. Eligible for LALS Fall 2022. Staff. Spring 2023. Staff. Fall 2023. Staff. Spring 2024. Staff. Fall 2024. Staff. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Latin American and Latino Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/latin-american-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LALS 093. Directed Reading With permission of the instructor and the program coordinator. Non-distribution. 1 credit. Eligible for LALS Fall 2022. Staff. Spring 2023. Staff. Fall 2023. Staff. Spring 2024. Staff. Fall 2024. Staff. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Latin American and Latino Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/latin-american-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LALS 097. Independent Study Non-distribution. 1 credit. Eligible for LALS Catalog chapter: Latin American and Latino Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/latin-american-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LALS 180. Senior Honors Thesis With permission of the instructor and the program coordinator. 2 credits. Eligible for LALS Fall 2023. Staff. Spring 2024. Staff. Fall 2024. Staff. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Latin American and Latino Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/latin-american-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Latin
	LATN 001. Intensive First-Year Latin Students learn the basics of the language, with readings drawn from Plautus, Cicero, Sallus, Martial, the emperor Augustus, and Catullus. The course meets four times a week. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Turpin. Fall 2023. Turpin. Fall 2024. Turpin. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LATN 002. Intensive First-Year Latin Students learn the basics of the language, with readings drawn from Plautus, Cicero, Sallus, Martial, the emperor Augustus, and Catullus. The course meets four times a week. Prerequisite: LATN 001 or by permission of the instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Turpin. Spring 2024. Munson. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LATN 011. Lyric, Pastoral, and Elegiac Poetry This course is intended for students who have completed Intensive First Year Latin (Latin 001-002) or the equivalent in summer programs or high school. Readings will be drawn from such authors as Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Propertius and Ovid. Students will read selected modern criticism and will develop interpretative as well as linguistic skills. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for CPLT. Fall 2023. Turpin. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LATN 013. Tradition and Transformation in the Roman Empire Selected readings by the poet Ovid. opics will include the range of poetic genres in which Ovid wrote, the characteristics of his writing that remain stable across these different genres, and Ovid’s relationship to the history and culture of the time in which he lived. Prerequisite: LATN 011 or its equivalent. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LATN 014. Medieval Latin Readings are chosen from the principal types of medieval Latin literature, including religious and secular poetry, history and chronicles, saints’ lives, satire, philosophy, and romances. Prerequisite: LATN 011 or its equivalent. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for Medieval Studies. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LATN 015. Catullus and the Fall of the Roman Republic This course will consider individual poems of Catullus and relevant selections from Cicero and Sallust. Our focus will be on the poems in their literary context and also their connections with a Rome that was descending into civil war. The course is suitable for those with a year of college Latin or 3-4 years in high school, and will include some review of basic grammar and vocabulary. Writing course status to be applied for. Prerequisite: College level Latin and/or 3-4 years high school Latin. Humanities 1 credit. Fall 2022. Turpin. Fall 2024. Staff. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	LATN 017. Latin Poetry and the Modernists This course explores Latin poems influential in the creation of the modernist verse of, in particular, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. The Latin texts are read in the original, for their own sake and in their own context. But we also explore the readings given them by the modernists, in an attempt to assess the uses and importance of their common literary tradition. Prerequisite: LATN 011 or its equivalent. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Classics Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/classics Access the class schedule to search for sections.

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