College Bulletin 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MATH 025SP. Single-Variable Calculus 2 STEM Scholars Program
MATH 025SP will provide an enriched experience designed for MATH 025 students who plan to take at least four other STEM courses during their time at Swarthmore. During class, students work in small groups on challenging problems designed to promote deep understanding and mastery of the material.
Graded CR/NC.
Prerequisite: Students must be concurrently enrolled in an appropriate section (for Spring 2023, Section 03) of MATH 025 .
Natural sciences and engineering
0.5 credit.
Spring 2023. Grood.
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MATH 055. Intermediate Topics in Geometry
Knot Theory: Tie a knot in a string then glue the ends together. Can this knot be untangled without cutting it open? This question and many others relating to these “mathematical knots” have increasingly been studied by mathematicians, with many breakthroughs occurring in the past 20 years. In this course we will discuss methods of knot tabulation, invariants (properties) of knots such as the bridge-number, surfaces associated to knots, ties to Hyperbolic Geometry, Physics, Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and other sciences, as well as open problems in the field. While our proof-based approach will heavily feature drawing, artistic skill is not a prerequisite.
Prerequisite: Credit for, or placement out of, one of MATH 027 or MATH 028 and also one of MATH 033 , MATH 034 , or MATH 035 , along with a grade of C or better in at least one of the two previously mentioned math courses; or permission of the instructor.
Natural sciences and engineering.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: Mathematics and Statistics
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/mathematics-statistics
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Mathematics and Statistics - Seminars |
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Medieval Studies |
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Modern Languages and Literatures |
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LITR 007. Hot off the Press: Current Headlines from a German Perspective
(Cross-listed as GMST 007 )
This half-credit course invites students to explore the urban culture of Berlin, a European hotspot for politics, the arts, media, high-tech start-ups, and clubbing. Venturing beyond the capital, students then examine facets of Germany’s contemporary cultural, social, and political landscape.
Students will help select specific topics for readings, discussions, and presentations, and participants interested in developing their German language skills will have the opportunity to engage with relevant texts and media in German. Taught in English.
.5 credit.
Eligible for GMST
Spring 2025. Schnader.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures
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LITR 017F. First-Year Seminar: Francophone Bande Dessinée and Graphic Novels
Francophone Bande Dessinée and Graphic Novels
Bande dessinée and Graphic Novels of the Francophone World* The bande dessinée, the Francophone analog to comics, has evolved alongside art and youth culture to become a locus for expressions of sociocultural and aesthetic changes, as well as antiestablishment discourses. In the context of political and societal issues at stake in the francophone world such as social class, cultural diversity, and gender representation, this course will connect canonical comics (such as Topffer, Asterix and Tintin) with more current cutting-edge art forms including la nouvelle Manga and experimental graphic novels from Rwanda, Lebanon and Iran. Conducted in English. Texts in Translation.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for FREN
Spring 2023. Robison.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures
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LITR 026. Popular Music and Media
(Cross-listed as GMST 026 , FMST 026 , MUSI 005E )
What do classical music, teenie bop, soul, battle rap, and jazz have in common? Philadelphia. This team-taught interdisciplinary course investigates the histories, structures and cultural connections between popular music and other media in the city of Philadelphia. What links sound, image, and place? How do musical expressions and genres interact with urban life at specific junctures in Philadelphia history? How do modes of production and exhibition formats (radio vs. television, club v.s stadium) along with distribution venues (record store vs. Spotify) engage with genre, gender, and race configurations? What lies at the intersection of regional, national, and global fan cultures? How does celebrity culture then and now impact what is popular and how does it affect Philadelphia’s music industry and vice versa? Providing a grounding in music and media history and theory, we will research and analyze mainstream and independent Philadelphia-specific case studies in radio, film, theater, television and social media in order to better understand and engage with the complex webs that characterize contemporary media, its production, and its consumption. Student projects will explore the intersections and interactions between individuals, ethnic and racial groups, established and new Philadelphians, city government, region, empire, and nation that have and continue to shape Philadelphia through the music and media created here. This course will be taught in Philadelphia.
Core class in the Tri-Co Philly Program.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Spring 2023. Simon. Blasina.
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.
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LITR 056G. Outbreak Narratives
(Cross-listed as GMST 056 )
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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LITR 074F. The Shadow of the Enlightement
Crosslisted with FREN 074 .
The following course offers a critical examination of the central ideas guiding the French Enlightenment, paying particularly close attention to the notion of “otherness” underlying the Enlightenment project-that is, that which is facilely left out in the eighteenth century’s valorization of reason. In opposition to the Enlightenment idea of the rational man is the irrational animal, a binary that materialist thinkers like La Mettrie and Condillac are quick to blur; in opposition to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (the crowning civil rights document from the French Revolution) is Olympe de Gouges’ Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, a text that criticizes eighteenth-century gender inequalities; in opposition to the Enlightenment’s enormous blind spots surrounding race is Claire de Duras’ Ourika, a novel that decries the pervasive racism of the eighteenth century. Throughout the semester, we will study the novels, essays, and dialogues that shape the major ideas of the Enlightenment (and the revolutionary modes of thinking that accompany it), while also studying that which lies in the shadow of the Enlightenment. Authors include: Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Condillac, La Mettrie, Gouges, Duras.
Taught in English; and there is a 0.5 credit French Attachment for students reading in French (FREN 074A ).
Humanities
1 credit.
Spring 2024. Staff.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures
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Music - Introductory Courses without Prerequisite |
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MUSI 005E. Popular Music and Media
(Cross-listed as LITR 026 , FMST 026 , GMST 026 )
What do classical music, teenie bop, soul, battle rap, and jazz have in common? Philadelphia. This team-taught interdisciplinary course investigates the histories, structures and cultural connections between popular music and other media in the city of Philadelphia. What links sound, image, and place? How do musical expressions and genres interact with urban life at specific junctures in Philadelphia history? How do modes of production and exhibition formats (radio vs. television, club v.s stadium) along with distribution venues (record store vs. Spotify) engage with genre, gender, and race configurations? What lies at the intersection of regional, national, and global fan cultures? How does celebrity culture then and now impact what is popular and how does it affect Philadelphia’s music industry and vice versa? Providing a grounding in music and media history and theory, we will research and analyze mainstream and independent Philadelphia-specific case studies in radio, film, theater, television and social media in order to better understand and engage with the complex webs that characterize contemporary media, its production, and its consumption. Student projects will explore the intersections and interactions between individuals, ethnic and racial groups, established and new Philadelphians, city government, region, empire, and nation that have and continue to shape Philadelphia through the music and media created here. This course will be taught in Philadelphia.
Core class in the Tri-Co Philly Program
Humanities.
1 credit.
Spring 2023. Blasina and Simon.
Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music
Department website: Music and Dance: Music
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MUSI 007. Foundations of Songwriting
Songwriting merges the composition of music with the creation of words or lyrics. Songs are ancient phenomena, tied innately to human behavior. They are in part a natural extension of speech and physical movement, in part a creative endeavor, and in today’s world, often a commercial venture. Though usually modest in size, songs have exerted a powerful influence on, and been an indispensable reflection of, our collective emotional and actual lives. How songs come into being is somewhat ethereal, and only recently have educators and practitioners begun to treat songwriting as a scholarly discipline. This course frames the art and act of songwriting in historical context, offering a combination of background information and hands-on practice.
The class has two main components. First, through survey and analysis, we will examine the wide literature of songs throughout history: its traditions, its mechanisms, and its connections to human society and culture. Next, students will create their own songs, applying the principles and techniques learned through study of the repertoire. We will examine the process of songwriting, from inception through execution to completion, by closely observing and keeping journals of our own work, and by welcoming guest artists to the class to discuss their songwriting processes and experiences. Topics to be discussed include melody, rhythm, style, instrumentation, song forms, singing,
dancing, and rhyming, among many others. All genres are welcome, and both traditional and non-traditional approaches are encouraged. A basic knowledge of music and some musical skill, vocal or instrumental, are highly recommended.
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Spring 2023. Bechtel.
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