College Bulletin 2022-2023

May 04, 2024

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Music - Introductory Courses without Prerequisite
	MUSI 009B. Music as Oral Tradition “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” This African proverb, popularized by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, reflects the absence of the voices of colonized subjects in recorded histories of colonial domination. This course explores the music and oral traditions of African and African diasporic peoples as legible historical records that are valuable and credible receptacles of, and sources for the dissemination and comprehensive production of world knowledge. As receptacles of knowledge, the living archives of song, instrumental music, dance, storytelling, traditional foods, and spiritual practice offer communities a mode for remembrance, and for teaching, learning, and preserving valuable social information. As sources of knowledge production, the records that inhabit these living archives represent colonial histories from the perspective of the colonized, on their terms. During this course, students will use selected case studies to examine how the living archives of colonized African and African diasporic people in continental Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas have been influential in chronicling past and present struggles. They will consider how these records remain vital to communities’ ability not just to survive, but to thrive in the twenty-first century and beyond. HU 1 Eligible for GLBL - Paired, Lang Engaged Scholarship, BLST Spring 2023. Stewart. Spring 2025. Stewart. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 010. From Roots to Django: Interpreting the Soundtracks of Black Power, Black Pain, Black Joy, and Retribution. “Yes, they deserved to die, and I hope they burn in hell!” - Carl Lee Hailey “A Time to Kill” In this course we will examine the soundtracks of five fictionalized representations of Black life spanning the 17th through the 21st centuries. We’ll examine how music is deployed in ways that move film narratives forward and in some cases how it even becomes an essential character to the story. The soundtracks and screenplays of Roots (1976), Sankofa (1993), Django Unchained (2012), Do the Right Thing (1989), Beloved (1998), and Black Panther (2018) offer us a broad spectrum of witnessing, storytelling, and interpretation. What musical elements enable a soundtrack to contribute to the emotive and socio-cultural value of our cinematic experience? Students will examine each of these films to determine whether or not as well as how and why the soundtrack as a whole or in part is instrumental and effective in compellingly portraying power, pain, joy, and retribution as experienced by generations of Black people - past, present, and future- in Africa, the United States, and throughout the worldwide African diaspora. Ethnomusicology or Elective Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC, FMST Spring 2023. Stewart. Spring 2024. Stewart. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Music - Theory and Composition
	MUSI 011. Harmony, Counterpoint, and Form 1 This course will provide an introduction to tonal harmony and counterpoint, largely as practiced in 18th- and 19th-century Europe. Topics include simple counterpoint in 2 parts, harmonization of soprano and bass lines in four-part textures, systematic study of common diatonic harmonies, features of melody and phrase, and the Blues. All MUSI 011 students must register for an appropriate level of MUSI 040A for 0 or 0.5 credit. Keyboard skills lessons may also be required for some students. Prerequisite: Knowledge of traditional notation and major and minor scales; ability to play or sing at sight simple lines in treble and bass clef. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Kochavi. Fall 2023. Kochavi. Fall 2024. Staff. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 012. Harmony, Counterpoint, and Form 2 This course will provide continued work on tonal harmony and counterpoint, largely as practiced in 18th- and 19th-century Europe. Topics include two-voice counterpoint, harmonization of soprano and bass lines in four-part textures, phrase structure, small and large scale forms, modulation and tonicization, and analysis using prolongational reductions. We will also study minuet form in detail, culminating in a final composition project. All MUSI 012 students must register for an appropriate level of MUSI 040B for 0 or 0.5 credit. Keyboard skills lessons are required for all students in MUSI 012. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Kochavi. Spring 2024. Kochavi. Spring 2025. Kochavi. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 013. Harmony, Counterpoint, and Form 3 Continues and extends the work of Music 12 to encompass an expanded vocabulary of chromatic tonal harmony, based on Western art music of the 18th and 19th centuries. The course includes analysis of smaller and larger works by such composers as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, and Wagner; in-depth study of such large-scale topics as sonata form; and written musical exercises ranging from harmonizations of bass and melody lines to original compositions in chorale style. All MUSI 013 students must register for an appropriate level of MUSI 040C for 0 or 0.5 credit. Keyboard skills lessons may also be required for some students. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Levinson. Fall 2023. Levinson. Fall 2024. Levinson. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 014. Harmony, Counterpoint, and Form 4 This course provides continued work in chromatic harmony and 18th-century counterpoint, largely as practiced in Europe. It will primarily take the form of a literature survey. For the first half of the semester, our focus will be on short pieces; during the second of the semester we will study keyboard fugues and other larger-scale works. This course includes a service-learning project. All MUSI 014 students must register for an appropriate level of MUSI 040D for 0 or 0.5 credit. Keyboard skills lessons may also be required for some students. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2024. Levinson. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 016. Jazz Theory and Analysis Jazz Theory and Analysis will survey the development of tonal and modal jazz theory from the early twentieth century until the late 1960s. During this time, the jazz genre itself metamorphosed extensively, as seen in the chronology of its principal styles: pre-jazz music and ragtime, to early jazz, to swing, to bebop, to modal, and then to postbop. Since the postbop jazz of the 1960s, the theory of its tonal-modal styles and the chord-scale interactions that connect them have achieved relative stability. The evolution of jazz theory along with the analysis of selected jazz compositions and improvisations will be the focus of the class. Upper Level Music Theory Course Prerequisite: MUSI 11 and MUSI 12 or Permission of the Instructor HU 1 Spring 2023. Martin. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 018. Conducting and Orchestration This course approaches the understanding of orchestral scores from a variety of perspectives. We will study techniques of orchestration and instrumentation, both in analysis of selected works, and in practice, through written exercises. The history, and philosophy of conducting will be examined, and we will work to develop practical conducting technique. Score reading, both at the piano and through other methods, will be practiced throughout the semester. Prerequisite: MUSI 012 , or permission of the instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2024. Hauze. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 040. Elements of Musicianship Sight singing and rhythmic and melodic dictation. Required for all MUSI 011 to MUSI 014 students, with or without 0.5 credit. The instructor will place students at appropriate levels. 0.0 or 0.5 credit. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 040A. Elements of Musicianship I The Elements of Musicianship courses explore music making from a variety of perspectives and across many styles and genres of (mostly) Western music. Among the skills developed are: sight-singing melodies and arpeggiated harmonic progressions; singing and playing the piano simultaneously; part singing in choral works; taking musical dictation; transcription of recorded music; basic conducting; beginning keyboard harmony; and transposition. The first semester, Music 40A, provides an introduction to scale degree solmization; singing major and minor scales (all forms); fluency in all keys and time signatures; rhythmic subdivision; conducting patterns; intervals within the major/minor scales and primary triads; passing and neighboring tones; decontextualized perfect intervals; and diatonic keyboard skills. Required for all MUSI 011 students, with or without 0.5 credit. The instructor will place students at appropriate levels. 0.0 or 0.5 credit. Fall 2022. Hauze. Fall 2023. Hauze. Fall 2024. Hauze. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 040B. Elements of Musicianship II The Elements of Musicianship courses explore music making from a variety of perspectives and across many styles and genres of (mostly) Western music. Among the skills developed are: sight-singing melodies and arpeggiated harmonic progressions; singing and playing the piano simultaneously; part singing in choral works; taking musical dictation; transcription of recorded music; basic conducting; beginning keyboard harmony; and transposition. The second semester, Music 40B, explores the use of triads in inversion; tonicizations of closely related key areas; chromatic non-harmonic tones; the dominant seventh chord; syncopation and cross-rhythm; and complex subdivision. Required for all MUSI 012 students, with or without 0.5 credit. The instructor will place students at appropriate levels. 0.0 or 0.5 credit. Spring 2023. Hauze. Spring 2024. Hauze. Spring 2025. Hauze. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 040C. Elements of Musicianship III The Elements of Musicianship courses explore music making from a variety of perspectives and across many styles and genres of (mostly) Western music. Among the skills developed are: sight-singing melodies and arpeggiated harmonic progressions; singing and playing the piano simultaneously; part singing in choral works; taking musical dictation; transcription of recorded music; basic conducting; beginning keyboard harmony; and transposition. The third semester, Music 40C, introduces atonal melodies using seconds, thirds, fourths, and fifths and continues to explore closely related modulation and chromatic tonicization; sequences; advanced triplets and irregular meters; advanced transposition; the “church” modes; the whole tone scale; and the octatonic scale. Required for all MUSI 013 students, with or without 0.5 credit. The instructor will place students at appropriate levels. 0.0 or 0.5 credit. Fall 2022. Hauze. Fall 2023. Hauze. Fall 2024. Hauze. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 040D. Elements of Musicianship IV The Elements of Musicianship courses explore music making from a variety of perspectives and across many styles and genres of (mostly) Western music. Among the skills developed are: sight-singing melodies and arpeggiated harmonic progressions; singing and playing the piano simultaneously; part singing in choral works; taking musical dictation; transcription of recorded music; basic conducting; beginning keyboard harmony; and transposition. The fourth and final semester, Music 40D, explores advanced atonal melodies; distant chromatic modulation; diminished seventh chords; Neapolitan and augmented sixth chords; and mixed meters. Required for all MUSI 014 students, with or without 0.5 credit. The instructor will place students at appropriate levels. 0.0 or 0.5 credit. Spring 2023. Hauze. Spring 2024. Hauze. Spring 2025. Hauze. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 061. Jazz Improvisation A systematic approach that develops the ability to improvise coherently, emphasizing the Bebop and Hard Bop styles exemplified in the music of Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown. Prerequisite: Ability to read music and fluency on an instrument. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Music - History of Music
	MUSI 020. Medieval and Renaissance Music A repertory based course that discusses the history of music in Europe from the beginnings of musical notation to the birth of opera. (c. 800 - c. 1600). Mus 20 considers this varied repertory through lenses of race, gender, and identity, nationalism and post-colonial theory. Topics include musical rituals, music and magic, music and Elizabethan global politics, music, piety, & sacrilege, sexual discourse in music, relationships between music and architecture, development of musical instruments, and history of theory. Prerequisite: MUSI 011 or permission of the instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2025. Blasina. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 021. Music in Europe and the Americas in the 17th and 18th Centuries This course will survey European art music from the 16th-century Italian madrigal to Haydn’s Creation. Relevant extramusical contexts will be considered. Prerequisite: MUSI 011 or the equivalent. Humanities. Writing Course. 1 credit. Spring 2024. Blasina. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 022. 19th-Century Music in Europe and the U.S. This survey considers European art music against the background of 19th-century Romanticism and nationalism. Composers to be studied include Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Berlioz, Robert and Clara Schumann, Wagner, Verdi, Brahms, Dvorak, Musorgsky, and Chaikovsky. Prerequisite: MUSI 011 or the equivalent. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL-Paired Fall 2024. Milewski. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 023. 20th-Century Music in Europe and the U.S. A study of the various stylistic directions in music of the 20th century. Representative works by composers from Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg through Copland, Messiaen, and postwar composers such as Boulez and Crumb, to the younger generation will be examined in detail. Prerequisite: MUSI 011 or the equivalent. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Milewski. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 025. American Musical Theater Musical theater has often been considered a quintessentially American genre. But how has it helped Americans to understand America. This survey will trace the genre’s musical and dramatic development and explore representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Prerequisite: MUSI 011 or permission of the instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 026. Ballet & Modern Dance in Europe & North America 1789-1960 (Cross listed as DANC 022 ) This survey covers theatrical dance in Europe and North America from the French Revolution through the late twentieth century, examining ballet and modern dance within the greater performance contexts. We will also consider ways in which race, gender, sexuality, and politics affect dance creation, performance, and dissemination. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL- Paired Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 027. Divas This course examines the musical performances and personae of 20th and 21st century musical “divas” through the lenses of race, class, gender, sexuality, and fandom. Special attention is on how popular divas have disrupted dominant discourses of gender, sex, race, religion, and embodiment, as well as articulated resistance to hegemonic cultural requirements. Discussions will address questions such as: Who is a diva, and what constitutes diva-ness? How have divas defined, expanded, and transgressed boundaries of acceptable female musicianship? How can subversion and resistance be read in mass-produced cultural forms? What has the effect of technology and mediation been on diva performance and reception? What is the role of camp and outrageousness in diva performance and imitation? Prerequisite: MUSI 011 or permission of instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2025. Blasina. Department website: Music and Dance: Music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 028. Sound, Sinners, and Saints in Medieval England What did Medieval England sound like? What meanings did individuals attribute to sounds, heard and imagined? This course examines the production and perception of sound and music in England from c. 1000 - c. 1500, considering their relationship to each other, and their roles as vehicles for the transcultural exchange that contributed to formations of English national identity. Using the lenses of sound studies and musicology, this course considers how sound and music could be tools of war and conquest in early English imperialism, as well as the impacts of sound and music on English civic and religious life. In this vein topics include, but are not limited to, sound and criminality, executions, the regulation of sound and music, English sanctity, kingship and queenship, the Crusades, vernacular song and dance, musical innovation, and technologies of music recording. We will treat music on the same level as other kinds of sounds, including those represented in visual sources and those made by inanimate objects (e.g.bells) and animals. Prerequisite: Ability to read music. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for MDST. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 030. Music of Asia An introduction to selected musical traditions from the vast diversity of Asian cultures. Principal areas will include classical music of India, Indonesian gamelan from Bali and Java, ritual music of Tibet, ancient Japanese court music, Turkish classical music and others. These music will be studied in terms of their technical and theoretical aspects as well as their cultural/philosophical backgrounds. Western musical notation and terminology, including scale types and intervals, will be used. This course fulfills the World Traditions component of the music major. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 031. Music and Culture in East Asia This course examines music and culture in East Asia with a focus on a selection of contemporary case studies. The course is divided into three units of China/Taiwan/Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. Each unit will begin with an introduction to leading musical traditions of the area including main instruments, ensemble, and musical genres. We will then closely examine case studies from the 20^th and 21^st centuries with attention to music and significant social, political, and historical contexts. Students will develop critical reviews of scholarly articles and facilitate class discussions based on assigned reading and listening materials. Additional coursework includes performance workshops, reading, and listening. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ASIA, GLBL-Paired Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 035. Foundations of Ethnomusicology This course provides an introduction to the history, methodologies, and theories of ethnomusicology. Through review and analysis of past case studies, we will discuss the development of the discipline, engaging with fundamental questions about the relationships among music, culture, scholarship, and advocacy. This course material and assessments will be designed in an interdisciplinary fashion, drawing primarily from music analysis and the social sciences. In addition to individual and collaborative assignments, students will produce ethnographic portfolios of a nearby group or community to be presented at the end of the semester. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 036. Contesting Darkness: Music, Sound, and Place in Gothic Europe. Consistent with the integrative ideals of a liberal arts education, Contesting Darkness is an interdisciplinary study of the music, art, and culture of “high” and “late” medieval Europe. It is centered on the artistic, architectural, scientific, and political currents that gave rise to the world’s first skyscrapers, monumental Gothic structures that were an impetus and a home for the music making that concretely forms the basis of Western musical cultures to the present day. We will consider the sonic and visual arts that were created during the Middle Ages, the relationship between these cultural products, the ritual activities that engendered them, and the physical spaces they inhabited. Music-like all artwork-is not created in a vacuum, but instead has always been influenced by and influences the sociocultural context that surrounds it. And yet, this context is not extraneous; it is as much a part of the artistic object as the notes on the page or the pigment in a fresco, and must be considered as integral at all stages of artistic creation. As we will see, many of the innovations that gave rise to the tallest, brightest, and most ornate buildings also inspired musical developments in notation, rhythm, and counterpoint; many were dependent on and spurred global intellectual and commercial exchange. Moreover, broader changes in piety, such as more intense devotion to the Virgin Mary, were expressed architecturally (through the addition of “Lady Chapels” to existing churches and dedications of new churches and shrines), artistically (in frescoes, paintings, and stained glass depicting her), and musically (through a myriad of musical compositions that explicitly lauded the Virgin Mary and extolled her multifaceted roles within Medieval Christianity). Contrary to popular images of the Middle Ages as “unenlightened,” the period under our consideration was one of tremendous achievement, and literal brightness. And yet, the medieval period continues to be depicted as the so-called “Dark Ages,” or worse, misrepresented and weaponized to support ideologies of hatred. It is no accident that when neo-Nazis marched through Charlottesville reciting racist and anti-Semitic chants, or when rioters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 that they carried torches and shields emblazoned with medieval insignia. As many people continue to yearn for a homogenous, white, isolated, and Christian Middle Ages that never existed, it has become increasingly critical to be equipped with knowledge that counters this narrative. This course aims to do just that, by broadly considering the culture of the European Middle Ages, and by recognizing and bringing to the fore how complicated it actually was (in often the best of ways), as well as the voices and perspectives of those who might not otherwise be recognized in weaponized nostalgia: those of low social rank, religious minorities, queer people, and people with disabilities. At the end of the course, students will participate in a 12-day Off-campus education program in England and France for on-site study, learning from eminent scholars, and practitioners, and consultation of original manuscripts in local collections. Prerequisite: MUSI 011 Corequisite: Optional: MUSI 036A Humanities. 1 Spring 2023. Blasina. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 036A. Off-Campus Study Attachment to: Contesting Darkness: Music, Sound, and Place in Gothic Europe Optional Attachment to MUSI 036. At the end of MUSI 036, students will participate in a 12-day Off-campus education program in England and France for on-site study, learning from eminent scholars, and practitioners, and consultation of original manuscripts in local collections. Optional Attachment to MUSI 036. Prerequisite: MUSI 011 Corequisite: MUSI 036A Humanities 0.5 Spring 2023. Blasina. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 038. Color and Spirit: Music of Debussy, Stravinsky, and Messiaen A focused survey of 20th-century music centering on the great renewal of musical expression, increasingly diverging from the Austro-German classic-Romantic tradition, found in the works of these three very individual French and Russian composers, as well as the resonance of their music in the work of their contemporaries and successors, including Ravel, Dukas, Prokofiev, Boulez, and others. The course begins by tracing the origins of this “alternative” conception of what music can do, and how it can work, well back into the 19^th century, especially in the music of Liszt and the Russian “Mighty Handful”, then considers its continuing and seminal contribution to musical modernism throughout the 20^th century. Prof. Levinson is a former student and assistant to Olivier Messiaen. Some of the principal works to be studied are Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, La Mer, the opera Pelléas et Mélisande, and songs and piano works; Stravinsky’s ballets Petrushka, The Rite of Spring, and others, Symphony of Psalms, Symphony in Three Movements, and the late serial works of the 1960s; Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, Turangalîla Symphony, Oiseaux exotiques, The Transfiguration, the opera Saint Francis of Assissi, and songs, piano and organ works. Prerequisite: MUSI 011 or permission of the instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2025. Levinson. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 091C. Special Topics (Music Education) With permission of the instructor, qualified students may choose to pursue a topic of special interest in music education through a field project involving classroom or school practice. Graded CR/NC. Prerequisite: At least one course in music. 0.5 credit. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 092. Independent Study 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 093. Directed Reading Directed Reading in Music 0.5 credit. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 094. Senior Research Topics in Music Required of all senior majors as preparation for the senior comprehensive in music. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Milewski. Spring 2024. Blasina. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 095. Tutorial Special work in composition, theory, or history. Humanities. 0.5 or 1 credits. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 096. Senior Thesis 1 or 2 credits. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 099. Senior Honors Recital Honors music majors who wish to present a senior recital as one of their honors preparations must register for MUSI 099, after consultation with the music faculty. See Honors Program guidelines. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 107. Sound, Salvation, and Statecraft under the Tudors Course Description Pending Prerequisite: MUSI 011 or Permission of the Instructor Humantities 1 Fall 2023. Blasina. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Music - Seminars
	MUSI 100. Ethnomusicology Seminar (Cross-listed as SOAN 100 ) Ethnomusicology is an academic discipline that examines music in and as culture. This course examines how the interdisciplinary field has developed over the 20^th and 21^st centuries through an investigation of its origins, approaches, methodologies, and contemporary theoretical questions. Course readings will address the relationships between music and a variety of conceptual themes including race, ethnicity, identity, nationalism, Diaspora, globalization, and gender. The music cultures we will examine in this course represent a wide range of cultures, geographic regions, musical genres, and historical periods. Students will complete introductory exercises in research, transcription, analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, & performance. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL-core, ASAM Fall 2022. Hawkins. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 104. Chopin This course will provide an in-depth historical study of Chopin’s music. We will examine the full generic range of Chopin’s compositions, taking into account the various socio-cultural, biographical and historical-political issues that have attached to specific genres. Throughout the semester we will also consider such broader questions as: why did Chopin restrict himself almost entirely to piano composition? How might we locate Chopin’s work within the larger category of 19th-century musical romanticism? What does Chopin’s music mean to us today? Prerequisite: MUSI 011. Humanities. 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 106. Winds of Pleasure: The Music and Writing of Hildegard of Bingen in Context and Revival Celebrated for her prophetic powers, Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th century composer, abbess, writer of three natural science and medicinal texts, and a sought-after resource for contemporary political and religious leaders. This course examines the music, drama, sermons, letters, and medicinal works written by the visionary and polymath, contextualizing Hildegard’s compositional style within medieval genres. Special attention will be given to liturgical drama, the recording and compilation of Hildegard’s work during the Middle Ages, compositional aspects of Hildegard’s music, representations of gender, the body, and sexuality in her music and writing. The Hildegard revival of the 19th and 20th centuries will provide case studies (ranging from Anonymous 4 to Swedish folk rock) to analyze contemporary performance practices. Prerequisite: MUSI 011 or permission of the instructor. 1 credit. Department website: Music and Dance: Music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 115. Harmony, Counterpoint, and Form 5 Exploration of a number of advanced concepts in music theory including: the study and analytical application of post-tonal theory (including set theory and neo-Riemannian theory), the structure of the diatonic system, applications of theoretical models to rhythm and meter, and geometric models of musical progression. Prerequisite: MUSI 013 Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2025. Kochavi. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 119. Composition Repeatable course. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Levinson. Fall 2023. Levinson. Spring 2024. Levinson. Fall 2024. Levinson. Spring 2025. Levinson. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Music - Performance
	MUSI 041. Jazz Ensemble 0.0 or 0.5 credit. Fall 2022. Neu. Spring 2023. Neu. Fall 2023. Neu. Spring 2024. Neu. Fall 2024. Neu. Spring 2025. Neu. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 042. Chinese Music Ensemble Performance of traditional and contemporary music from different regions of China and the Chinese Diaspora. Students perform on traditional Chinese instruments including the guzheng (zither), erhu (bowed fiddle), pipa (plucked lute), yangqin (hammered dulcimer), dizi (flute), and percussion. Students will choose 1-2 instruments to focus on for the semester based on instrument availability, interest, repertoire, and ensemble needs. Students with no prior musical experience (of any tradition) are welcome to attend the first rehearsal and discuss your interests with Professor Ouyang. Instruments will be provided by the Department and the class will present a public performance at the end of the semester. Weekly rehearsals in Lang #415, plus an additional 30 minutes per week in smaller groups (“sectional”). Graded CR/NC. 0.0 or 0.5 credit Eligible for ASIA Fall 2022. Ouyang. Wang. Spring 2023. Ouyang. Wang. Fall 2023. Ouyang. Wang. Spring 2024. Ouyang. Wang. Fall 2024. Ouyang. Wang. Spring 2025. Ouyang. Wang. Department website: Music and Dance: Music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 043. Chorus 0.0 or 0.5 credit. Spring 2023. Gregorio. Fall 2023. Reiff. Spring 2024. Reiff. Fall 2024. Reiff. Spring 2025. Reiff. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 044. Orchestra 0.0 or 0.5 credit. Fall 2022. Hauze. Spring 2023. Hauze. Fall 2023. Hauze. Spring 2024. Hauze. Fall 2024. Hauze. Spring 2025. Hauze. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 046. Wind Ensemble 0.0 or 0.5 credit. Fall 2022. Hauze. Spring 2023. Hauze. Fall 2023. Hauze. Spring 2024. Hauze. Fall 2024. Hauze. Spring 2025. Hauze. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 047. Chamber Music (See guidelines for this course earlier.) 0.0 or 0.5 credit. Fall 2022. Hauze. Spring 2023. Hauze. Fall 2023. Hauze. Spring 2024. Hauze. Fall 2024. Hauze. Spring 2025. Hauze. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 048. Individual Instruction Please consult the MUSI 048 guidelines on the Music Program website. 0.5 credit. Fall 2022. Ouyang. Spring 2023. Ouyang. Fall 2023. Ouyang. Spring 2024. Ouyang. Fall 2024. Staff. Spring 2025. Staff. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 049A. Balinese Gamelan Performance of traditional and modern compositions for Balinese Gamelan (Indonesian percussion orchestra). Students will learn to play without musical notation. No prior experience in Western or non-Western music is required. The course is open to all students. 0.5 or 0.0 credit. Eligible for ASIA Fall 2022. Whitman. Suadin. Spring 2023. Whitman. Suadin. Fall 2023. Whitman. Suadin. Spring 2024. Whitman. Suadin. Fall 2024. Whitman. Suadin. Spring 2025. Whitman. Suadin. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 050. Garnet Singers Formerly Performance (Chamber Choir) Corequisite: Students enrolled in MUSI 050 must also be enrolled in MUSI 043 (Performance Chorus). 0.0 or 0.5 credit. Fall 2022. Gregorio. Spring 2023. Gregorio. Fall 2023. Reiff. Spring 2024. Reiff. Fall 2024. Reiff. Spring 2025. Reiff. Catalog chapter: Music and Dance: Music Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/music Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	MUSI 052. Class Study of Guitar TBD 0.5 Fall 2023. Staff. Spring 2024. Staff. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Peace and Conflict Studies
	PEAC 002. FIRST YEAR SEMINAR: War and Peace in the Media Media greatly shapes our understanding of ourselves and the world; as such, it can be a powerful tool for peace and justice, but it is more often weaponized by the powerful to justify war and different forms of violence instead. How can different communities take this power back? This course provides methodological, historical, and thematic approaches to understand and critically engage with different forms of media, old and new. The class is designed for all students interested in media consumption and production, cultural studies, and social change. Spring 2024. Wilson Becerril Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 003. The Middle East and North Africa This introductory course assumes that students have little or no background in the study of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We will adopt an interdisciplinary approach to historicizing recent socio-economic and political transformations in the region. In our study of modern Middle Eastern social movements, we will address the role of race, ethnicity, colonialism, art, faith, and politics, the impact of technology, media, women’s rights, and LGBTQ organizing, as well as economic liberalization, entrepreneurship, and the politics of oil. Additional themes we will explore are the role of youth in catalyzing social change as well as the impact of conflict and violence. We will also trace the emergence and consequences of the “Arab Spring.” Social sciences. 1 credit. Spring 2024. Atshan Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 003A. Attachment: Crisis Resolution in the Middle East Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies. Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 004. FYS: Campaigning for Social Change This first year seminar focuses on the work of organizing and developing effective nonviolent social change campaigns. Students will learn from activists, organizers, and scholars and design campaigns that advance stakeholder needs. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC Spring 2025. Smithey Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 005. FYS: Transnational Advocacy Movements This first year seminar will explore the activities of transnational advocacy networks. Students will consider questions including, why do transnational activists decide to push for solutions to some problems and not others? What kinds of tactics do transnational advocates use to push for their demands? How do advocates link up across spaces, both horizontally (i.e. between different locales) and vertically (i.e. between “local” and “global” settings)? When and how do transnational advocacy campaigns make a difference in people’s lives? 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 009. Introduction to Engaged Scholarship Ernest Boyer coined the term “Engaged Scholarship” to describe teaching and research that connects “the university to our most pressing social, civic, and ethical problems” (Boyer, 1996). Organized by the Lang Center and faculty from across the discipline, this course will bring together students who are interested in connecting their academics with action to explore and promote ethical intelligence, active yet reflective civic engagement, and innovative solutions to pressing social problems. We regard community members’ insights and experiences as integral components of our co-created knowledge, recognizing that social and political solutions must consider the perspectives of those most directly affected. As such this course will be co-instructed by faculty, staff, and community experts from on and off campus and the final assignment will represent a collaborative effort. Non-distributional. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC Spring 2023. Berger and Magee. Spring 2024. Berger and Magee. Spring 2025. Berger and Magee. Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 015. Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies In Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies, we learn that peace and conflict are not mutually exclusive. To paraphrase Conrad Brunk, the goal of peace and conflict studies is to better understand conflict in order to find nonviolent ways of turning unjust relationships into more just ones. We examine both the prevalence of coercive and non-peaceful means of conducting conflict as well as the development of nonviolent alternatives, locally and globally, through institutions and at the grassroots. The latter include nonviolent collective action, mediation, peacekeeping, and conflict transformation work. Several theoretical and philosophical lenses will be used to explore cultural and psychological dispositions, conflict in human relations, and conceptualizations of peace. The course will take an interdisciplinary approach with significant contributions from the social sciences. To that end, students will also be immersed in Quaker Studies, Swarthmore College’s social justice history, research projects utilizing the Friends Historical Library and Peace Collection on campus, and case studies of conflict resolution from across the United States and around the world. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC Fall 2023. Atshan Fall 2024. Atshan Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 021. Environmental Justice in Latin America Cross-listed as ENVS 032 This course examines interactions between the environment, human politics, and conflict using a variety of concepts, theoretical frameworks, historical and geographical contexts, and methodological approaches. Moving chronologically and thematically, this course will draw on, and build up, your own expertise to study how nature has been historically framed, constructed, and contested, as well as how it intersects with other concepts such as power, violence, resistance, justice, and peace. Latin America, a region that is richly diverse in every sense, is an ideal setting from which to draw applicable insights about these open questions. Social Sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for ENVS, LALS, GLBL-paired Spring 2023. Wilson-Becerril. Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies. Department website: Peace and Conflict Studies. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 022. Peace Education EDUC 022 In this introductory course, students will explore the historical, ethical, and theoretical foundations of peace education, a subfield of peace and conflict studies. Students will consider different approaches towards peace education: should peace education be oriented towards eliminating physical violence? Facilitating co-existence and understanding? Teaching human rights or citizenship? Empowering the dispossessed and eliminating inequality and injustice? Is peace education best integrated in the existing schooling system, an extracurricular activity, or should it be distinct from schooling? Using case studies, students will critically examine different types of peace education and explore existing research on how they do-or do not-work. Social Science. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 023. First Year Seminar: Global Responses to Violence This first-year seminar will examine responses to political violence on an international scale. The first half of the semester will be devoted to examining the role of religious institutions, representing a wide range of faith-based communities, in exacerbating or ameliorating violence. The second half of the semester will cover examining the role of global secular institutions, such as the United Nations, in addressing political violence. Students will be exposed to two subfields of peace and conflict studies - the study of religion and violence, as well as the study of international organizations in conflict and post-conflict settings. This first year seminar does not fulfill the Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies requirement for PCS majors and minors. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 024. Quakers Past and Present RELG 023 This course explores the religious beliefs, social teachings, and impact of Quakers in North America from the 1650s to the present. Topics include Quaker beliefs about God and the light within; Quakers and social reform including anti-slavery work, women’s rights advocacy, Indian rights, and peace work; Quakers and education; Quakers and nature; and Quakers and social change today (including the work of Earth Quaker Action Team [EQAT] and the American Friends Service Committee). While focusing on Quakers and social transformation, this course includes discussion of specific concerns and methods in the study of religion. Students will have the opportunity to work with the resources of Swarthmore College’s Friends Historical Library and Peace Collection. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC Fall 2023. Ellen Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 025B. Transforming Intractable Conflict SOCI 025B Although experienced differently according to people’s particular contexts, various levels of interpersonal to international conflict are part of our daily lives. Whether dealing with a roommate or colleague, a corporate representative set on acquiring your land to build a gold mine, a parent or boss flexing authority and power, or even strangers in the street, conflict is an inherent aspect of coexistence. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Not all conflicts are violent, armed, or even destructive. Dominant historical narratives sell best when they overemphasize violence, but the history of our species has been far more influenced by humans learning to collaborate despite disagreements and differences. Conventionally considered destructive processes to avoid, conflicts may present crucial opportunities to collectively build justice and peace. We will draw on a variety of fields, paradigms, case studies, our personal experiences, current events, and practical simulations to gain a rich understanding of what underpins conflicts, how different actors respond, and how they can be channeled productively. Non-distribution. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC, SOCI Spring 2025. Wilson-Becerril Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 036. Environment, Cultural Memory and Social Change in Japan Cross-listed as JPNS 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. In addition, 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 possible 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. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC, GLBL-paired Spring 2023. Crossan. Gardner. Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 038. Civil Wars & Neoliberal Peace in Central America This course focuses on the sociopolitical turmoil that devastated Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador as a wave of revolutionary wars swept across the region from the 1960s to the early 1990s and sought to end decades of oppressive military dictatorships. After studying the civil wars and their causes, the course will then focus on the peacebuilding efforts and the implementation of democracy within the neoliberal economic order. Of particular interest are the failures of the peacebuilding process, the current gang violence in the region, and the widespread political corruption supported by an economic system that has made of everyday life an exercise in survival. We will pay special attention to U.S. intervention in Central America, particularly the consequences of its involvement in the military dictatorships and armed conflicts in the region. We’ll focus on issues of social trauma and social disaffection, of historical memory and the genocide of the Mayas, of political resistance and the struggle for social justice, and of the limits of postwar reconstruction and reconciliation in the era of neoliberalism. This course will help us understand the current crisis of Central American immigration to the U.S. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for LALS, PEAC, ESCH, GLBL-paired. Fall 2022. Buiza. Fall 2023. Buiza. Fall 2024. Buiza. Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 039. Social Entrepreneurship for Social Change Social entrepreneurship is concerned with entrepreneurial responses to demanding and unmet social needs (not adequately served by market or by state). Through in-depth case analysis, we will consider the context of social entrepreneurial activity (such as the peace and reconciliation movement in Northern Ireland), the individuals who become engaged in impacting social need (locally, nationally and globally), along with organizing and undertaking activities and addressing needs effectively. Limited to 15 students. Non-distribution. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL-Core Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 042. Human Rights Law and Advocacy To what extent can a predominantly “Western” and colonial legal framework deliver justice for people oppressed by Western institutions? We will study how human rights are contested by people in different spaces and spheres, including states, corporations, NGOs, social movements, and civil society. Human rights are constantly being claimed, built, and remade. How does this matter in everyday life? We will seek to understand these dynamics from the perspectives of people most affected by this contestation, with a particular focus on the global South. We will thus emerge better equipped to engage with struggles for peace and justice. Social Sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for GLBL-core Spring 2023. Wilson-Becerril. Fall 2024. Wilson-Becerril. Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies. Department website: Peace and Conflict Studies. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 043. Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change ANTH 044 How has gender emerged as an analytical category? How has sexuality emerged as an analytical category? What role did discourses surrounding gender and sexuality play in the context of Western colonialism in the Global South historically as well as in the context of Western imperialism in the Global South today? How are gender and sexuality-based liberation understood differently around the world? What global social movements have surfaced to codify rights for women and LGBTQ populations? How has the global human rights apparatus shaped the experiences of women and queer communities? What is the relationship between gender and masculinity? What are the promises and limits of homonationalism and pinkwashing as theoretical frameworks in our understanding of LGBT rights discourses? When considering the relationship between faith and homosexuality, how are religious actors queering theology? How do we define social change with such attention to gender and sexuality? Social sciences. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC, GSST, INTP, GLBL- Core, ESCH Spring 2025. Atshan Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 053. Contemporary Israel/Palestine (Cross-listed as ANTH 051 ) This course provides students with interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary Israeli and Palestinian societies and peace movements. Through ethnographic explorations, we will emphasize the heterogeneity of these communities and how politics, violence, religion, economics, psychology, and culture shape everyday lives in Israel/Palestine. In addition, students will advance their analytical and critical thinking skills, particularly in understanding debates on salient issues that animate the region and interrogating worldviews from across the ideological spectrum. By the end of the course, we will discern the central role of Israel/Palestine in global politics, and the stakes for people on the ground in this historic, conflicted, and beautiful land. Social Sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC Fall 2023. Atshan Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 070. Research Internship/Fieldwork Credit hours to be arranged with the coordinator. Non-distribution. Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 071B. Research Seminar: Global Nonviolent Action Database (Cross-listed as SOCI 071B ) This research seminar involves working with The Global Nonviolent Action Database built at Swarthmore College. This website is accessed by activists and scholars worldwide. The database contains crucial information on campaigns including those for human rights, democracy, environmental sustainability, economic justice, national/ethnic identity, and peace. Students will investigate a series of research cases and write them up in two ways: within a template of fields (the database proper) and also as a narrative describing the unfolding struggle. Strategic implications will be drawn from theory and from what the group is learning from the documented cases of people’s struggles. Social Science. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC, GLBL-core Fall 2024. Smithey Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 077. Gun Violence Prevention: Peace Studies and Action The course aims to bridge gaps between peace research, theory, and implementation by encouraging students to move between each as we examine the problem of gun violence, study effective interventions, consider nonviolent ways of conducting conflict, and assess the challenges of developing and sustaining effective peace work. As we develop our own analytical and research skills, we also aim to center the experience of peacemakers and victims by collaborating with a local gun violence prevention organization. Discussion over course readings will also be emphasized. This course will encourage collaboration and active participation in delivering the content of the course. Social sciences. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC, ESCH Spring 2023. Smithey. Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 091. Senior Capstone Seminar The Senior Capstone Seminar serves as the comprehensive exercise for the major and provides an opportunity for Peace and Conflict Studies students to synthesize their plans of study in a shared learning environment. Advanced readings will be incorporated to extend engagement with the field of peace and conflict studies, and participants will present their thesis work or an extension of an advanced paper they wrote in another peace and conflict studies eligible course. We will also look ahead to professional and vocational opportunities after graduation. Prerequisite: Peace and Conflict Studies majors only. May not be taken CR/NC. Non-distribution. 1 credit. May not be taken CR/NC. Eligible for PEAC Spring 2024. Wilson Becerril. Spring 2025. Smithey Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 093. Directed Reading 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 104. Humanitarianism: Education in Emergencies Cross-listed as EDUC 104. This honors seminar will explore paradigms of humanitarian aid, particularly focusing on the subfield of “education in emergencies.” The semester will begin by considering Western forms of humanitarian aid inrelation to other forms of aid, such as mutual aid and solidarity. Next, we will explore the relationship between education and armed conflict, including the role of outside education providers. We will discuss the ways in which global discourses and norms shape humanitarian aid to education. We will finish the semester by specifically looking at refugee education. Throughout the semester we will interrogate the extent to which humanitarian aid helps to improve people’s lives and to achieve social justice and equity. Case studies will include Afghanistan, Guatemala, Nepal, Palestine, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Kenya. Social Sciences. 2 credits. Eligible for GLBL-paired Spring 2023. Kapit. Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies. Department website: Peace and Conflict Studies. Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 155. FYS: Climate Capitalism & Green Revolutions Fall 2024. Smithey Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PEAC 180. Senior Honors Thesis Writing course 1 or 2 credits Catalog chapter: Peace and Conflict Studies Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/peace-conflict-studies Access the class schedule to search for sections.
Philosophy
	PHIL 001A. Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Agency What ought I to do? What are the demands of morality? What is their basis (if there is one)? Can values conflict and if yes, what can we do about that? What is freedom of the will and do we enjoy it? What can we know? Nothing? What is knowledge anyway? How can we understand consciousness? Can some machines think? Can the mind be outside the head? How can we or anything remain the same through change? Is there a self? Why is there something rather than nothing? Is death bad? Can life be meaningful or is it absurd? These are fundamental philosophical questions. We will deal with them by reading and discussing some classical but mostly contemporary philosophical texts. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Baumann. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 001C. Introduction to Philosophy: Truth and Desire How can or should we distinguish what is true about life from what we want from life? How can or should the pursuit of truth relate to our passions, our self-interests, the machinations of social power, and our highest aspirations as human beings? How do unquestioned assumptions inform what we perceive, believe, and desire, and how might investigating these assumptions shift or affirm our perspectives and instigate new approaches, or give fresh impetus to current approaches, to the problems we face? In this course we will take a chronological look at the distinct world-views of philosophers like Plato, Descartes, and Nietzsche, and then look at the perspectives of some contemporary theorists, in order to ask ourselves questions about when and how we know something to be true, what it is that we desire and why, and how revealing the assumptions we take for granted might affect our perceptions of both. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Spring 2025. Lorraine. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 001F. Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Problems Classical and current readings by Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Mill, Russell, Lewis ‘62 introduce the traditions of Western Philosophy. Topics may include: God and Evil, Knowledge and Belief, Life and Mind, Morality and Interests, Taste and Aesthetic Judgment, Personal and Bodily Identity. Humanities 1 credit. Spring 2025. Raff. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 001G. Introduction to Philosophy: Rationality and Religious Belief This course provides a cross-cultural introduction to some of the central questions and arguments in the philosophy of religion, covering both classical and contemporary authors, western and non-western traditions, and theistic and non-theistic perspectives. In particular, it centers on the following questions: Is religious belief rational? Is God necessary for morality? How do we account for the existence of evil and suffering? Is the “self” an illusion? Can there be reasonable religious disagreement? In contemplating these questions, students will have the opportunity to reexamine their own views and assumptions about religion in dialogue with great thinkers from diverse cultural and historical backgrounds. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Picascia. Spring 2024. Picascia. Spring 2025. Picascia. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 001H. Introduction to Philosophy: Personal Identity and the Self This course examines a wide range of interrelated questions concerning personal identity and the self through the lens of pre-modern Indian philosophy, as well as early modern and contemporary Western philosophy. In particular, the course addresses the following questions: 1) What is the essential nature of sentient beings like persons? 2) What does is it take for persons to persist over time? 3) What are the practical and moral implications of our conception of personal identity? In addressing these questions, students will have the opportunity to foster new ways of thinking about perennial philosophical puzzles in dialogue with great thinkers from diverse cultural, historical, and linguistic backgrounds. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Picascia. Fall 2023. Picascia. Fall 2024. Picascia. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 001K. Introduction to Philosophy: Pursuits of Wisdom in Ancient Philosophy In the Greek and Roman traditions, philosophy is a complete way of life, not solely an intellectual discipline. In this course we will examine how Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics conceive of philosophy as a method for discovering what a meaningful, happy, and purposeful life is for human beings. Students will develop skills of formulating and analyzing arguments, reading and interpreting philosophical texts, and defending their own philosophical positions. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Ledbetter. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 001M. Introduction to Philosophy: Free Thinkers Thinking for yourself is both an essential feature of being human, but it’s also very hard to do. This course introduces students to philosophy by examining the question: how do we become free thinkers? We take a tour through the history of philosophy (considered from a global perspective) to see how different philosophers have tried to cultivate independent minds and to see how their strategies might help us become free thinkers. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2024. Thomason. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 001N. Introduction to Philosophy: Subjects and Selves In the canon of modern Western philosophy, the subject takes the form of an autonomous, self-determining, rational individual, an actor with agency and conscious experience opposed to an external world comprised of objects to be perceived and known. Amidst the atrocities of the World Wars, waves of anticolonial struggles for national liberation, and the rapid emergence of new forms of control in the 20th century, however, thinkers have increasingly recognized that the “subject” is fundamentally inseparable from power: it is not a fixed and stable entity, but a site of struggle and contestation-an always-shifting terrain of meaning in which the dichotomies between self and other, inclusion and exclusion, and freedom and responsibility come into focus. This course takes up the question of the subject by examining how different philosophical traditions-including but not limited to critical theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, existentialism, and critical race theory-have put this subject in question. Humanities 1 credit. Spring 2023. Ahmed. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 001P. Introduction to Philosophy: Reasoning and Living Well Should we reason in a certain way? If so, why? The philosophers that we study in the course argue that reasoning correctly is connected to living well. In particular, they argue that critical thinking and the practice of making good arguments not only leads to true beliefs about the world, but also, is deeply connected to becoming better human beings and reducing suffering. This course inquiries into what makes reasoning good or bad, the various ways of acquiring knowledge, and skeptical challenges to reason’s ability to arrive at compelling conclusions. It also reflects upon the relationship between reasoning, broadly conceived, and living a good and meaningful life. We will approach these questions through the lens of both contemporary and historical figures, including ancient Greek and Indian philosophers, as well as medieval Islamic philosophers. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2023. Picascia. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 003. First-Year Seminar: The Meaning of Life What is the meaning of life? Isn’t this question too big for us? Do we even understand the question? This course will engage critically with several philosophical attempts to make sense of this fundamental question; we will discuss different answers to it. More specifically, we will deal with questions like the following: Can life have a meaning only if there is a God? Isn’t life just absurd? Is there anything that really matters? Is death a problem for the attempt to lead a meaningful life? (and wouldn’t immortality be a good alternative?) What is the role of purpose, purposes and plans in our lives? Is a meaningful life a happy life? What role do values and goals play in a meaningful life? And, finally: What is a good life? Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Baumann. Fall 2024. Baumann. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 005. First-Year Seminar: Human Nature Who are we? Who are we becoming? Who could we become? Are we masters of the universe, coparticipants in a larger whole, or instigators of an out-of-control path to destruction? We will read classic conceptions of human nature drawn from philosophers like Plato, Descartes, Rousseau, Kant, and Nietzsche, as well as contemporary theorists, to consider the implications high-tech living and advances in scientific research might hold for how we reconceive ourselves and our future. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Lorraine. Fall 2024. Lorraine. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 006. First-Year Seminar: Life, Mind, and Consciousness Ancient Greek philosophical approaches to the nature and value of life; modern philosophical problems that arise with 17th Century science of mind and body; and Contemporary philosophical issues that center on consciousness introduce the literature of Western philosophy of mind in the format of weekly seminars. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Raff. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 008. First-Year Seminar: Aesthetics & Political Resistance This first-year seminar critically examines the entangled relations between culture, politics, and society in order to appraise the revolutionary potential of aesthetics for challenging hegemonic structures of (neo-)liberal modernity. While the philosophical discipline of aesthetics has traditionally confined itself to questions of beauty, judgment, and taste, we will approach “aesthetics” as a fundamentally socially and politically mediated, experiential relationship between the individual and the external world. Some of the themes we will explore might include the relationship between beauty and ideology, the limits of radical art under capitalism, or the capacity of aesthetic objects and experiences to challenge how we inhabit in and move through the world. Our objects of study will comprise philosophical texts from the subdisciplines of critical theory, psychoanalysis, feminist studies, and philosophy of race, which we will read in conversation with a variety of aesthetic productions spanning music, film, performance art, and visual artwork. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Ahmed. Spring 2024. Ahmed. Fall 2024. Ahmed. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 010. First-Year Seminar: Questions of Inquiry A chronological introduction to perennial philosophical problems through readings that center on inquiry in the theories and practices of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Mill, Russell, and Lewis ‘62, among others. Problems include philosophical questions that arise in science, morality, religion and in philosophy itself. Weekly writing assignments advance the skills of reading philosophical literature. Humanities. 1 credit. Fall 2022. Raff. Fall 2023. Raff. Fall 2024. Raff. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 011. Moral Philosophy ‘What should I do?’ This question is as old as philosophy itself. Just as it is one of the oldest and most complex philosophical puzzles, it also frequently occupies the minds of individuals in their day-to-day lives. In this course, we will focus on both ways of approaching this question. From the philosophical direction, we will discuss how philosophers from both the eastern and western traditions have attempted to understand and describe our moral lives. From the practical direction, we will ask ourselves what it means to ascribe to these moral theories and how we might be able to actually live them. PEAC eligible only when taught by PHIL instructor K. Thomason. Eligible with arranged assignment and by obtaining instructor and program coordinator written approval before drop/add period ends. Prerequisite: First- and second-year students must complete one introductory level PHIL course before enrolling in this course. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for PEAC only when taught by PHIL instructor K. Thomason. Fall 2023. Thomason. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 012. Logic An introduction to the principles of deductive logic with equal emphasis on the syntactic and semantic aspects of logical systems. The place of logic in philosophy will aslo be examined. Logic is required for all philosophy majors. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for COGS Spring 2023. Staff. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 012A. Logic An introduction to the principles of deductive logic with equal emphasis on the syntactic and semantic aspects of logical systems. The place of logic in different areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, will also be examined. Recommended for students with a strong mathematics or computer science background, and for non-freshmen who have taken no prior philosophy courses. Required of all philosophy majors, unless they have taken PHIL 012B previously. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for COGS Fall 2023. Baker. Fall 2024. Baker. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 012B. Logic An introduction to the principles of deductive logic with equal emphasis on the syntactic and semantic aspects of logical systems. This course will cover the same amount of formal logic as PHIL 012A , but with less additional philosophical material, so that more time can be devoted to mastering the technical and formal apparatus. Recommended for students who are intending to major or minor in Philosophy, and for non-freshmen who have taken at least one prior Philosophy course. Required of all philosophy majors, unless they have taken PHIL 012A previously. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for COGS Fall 2023. Baker. Fall 2024. Baker. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 013. Modern Philosophy Philosophical topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and moral theory selected from masterpieces of 17th and 18th-century authors Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, and Kant. Prerequisite: First- and second-year students must complete one introductory level PHIL course before enrolling in this course. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2023. Raff. Spring 2024. Raff. Spring 2025. Raff. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 015. Special Topics: Kant: Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is not only a philosophical classic but also still frames current debates in metaphysics and epistemology. This course is dedicated to a close reading of core parts of the Critique. Main topics include: Kant’s defense of substantial a priori knowledge, his theories of space and time, his doctrine of the categories and a corresponding view of the world, his view that human knowledge is limited in basic ways, his doctrine of transcendental idealism, and his approach to traditional problems of metaphysics. Prerequisite: First- and second-year students must complete one introductory level PHIL course before enrolling in this course. Humanities 1 credit. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 016. Philosophy of Religion (Cross-listed as RELG 015B ) Searching for wisdom about the meaning of life? Curious as to whether there is a God? Questioning the nature of truth and falsehood? Right and wrong? You might think of philosophy of religion as your guide to the universe. This course considers Anglo-American and Continental philosophical approaches to religious thought using different disciplinary perspectives; it is a selective overview of the history of philosophy with special attention to the religious dimensions of many contemporary thinkers’ intellectual projects. Topics include rationality and belief, proofs for existence of God, the problem of evil, moral philosophy, biblical hermeneutics, feminist revisionism, postmodernism, and interreligious dialogue. Thinkers include, among others, Anselm, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Kant, Wittgenstein, Derrida, Levinas, Weil, and Abe. Prerequisite: First- and second-year students must complete one introductory level PHIL course before enrolling in this course. Humanities. 1 credit. Eligible for ESCH, INTP Spring 2024. Staff. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 018. Philosophy of Science See PHIL 119 Prerequisite: First- and second-year students must complete one introductory level PHIL course before enrolling in this course. Humanities. 1 credit. Spring 2025. Baker. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.
	PHIL 020. Plato and His Modern Readers (Cross-listed as CLST 020 ) Plato’s dialogues are complex works that require literary as well as philosophical analysis. While our primary aim will be to develop interpretations of the dialogues themselves, we will also view Plato through the lens of various modern and postmodern interpreters (e.g., Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Jung, Foucault, Irigaray, Rorty, Lacan, Nussbaum, Vlastos) Prerequisite: First- and second-year students must complete one introductory level PHIL course before enrolling in this course. Humanities. Writing course. 1 credit. Eligible for CLST, INTP Spring 2023. Ledbetter. Fall 2023. Ledbetter. Spring 2025. Ledbetter. Catalog chapter: Philosophy Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/philosophy Access the class schedule to search for sections.

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MUSI 009B. Music as Oral Tradition

MUSI 010. From Roots to Django: Interpreting the Soundtracks of Black Power, Black Pain, Black Joy, and Retribution.

MUSI 011. Harmony, Counterpoint, and Form 1

MUSI 012. Harmony, Counterpoint, and Form 2

MUSI 013. Harmony, Counterpoint, and Form 3

MUSI 014. Harmony, Counterpoint, and Form 4

MUSI 016. Jazz Theory and Analysis

MUSI 018. Conducting and Orchestration

MUSI 040. Elements of Musicianship

MUSI 040A. Elements of Musicianship I

MUSI 040B. Elements of Musicianship II

MUSI 040C. Elements of Musicianship III

MUSI 040D. Elements of Musicianship IV

MUSI 061. Jazz Improvisation

MUSI 020. Medieval and Renaissance Music

MUSI 021. Music in Europe and the Americas in the 17th and 18th Centuries

MUSI 022. 19th-Century Music in Europe and the U.S.

MUSI 023. 20th-Century Music in Europe and the U.S.

MUSI 025. American Musical Theater

MUSI 026. Ballet & Modern Dance in Europe & North America 1789-1960

MUSI 027. Divas

MUSI 028. Sound, Sinners, and Saints in Medieval England

MUSI 030. Music of Asia

MUSI 031. Music and Culture in East Asia

MUSI 035. Foundations of Ethnomusicology

MUSI 036. Contesting Darkness: Music, Sound, and Place in Gothic Europe.

MUSI 036A. Off-Campus Study Attachment to: Contesting Darkness: Music, Sound, and Place in Gothic Europe

MUSI 038. Color and Spirit: Music of Debussy, Stravinsky, and Messiaen

MUSI 091C. Special Topics (Music Education)

MUSI 092. Independent Study

MUSI 093. Directed Reading

MUSI 094. Senior Research Topics in Music

MUSI 095. Tutorial

MUSI 096. Senior Thesis

MUSI 099. Senior Honors Recital

MUSI 107. Sound, Salvation, and Statecraft under the Tudors

MUSI 100. Ethnomusicology Seminar

MUSI 104. Chopin

MUSI 106. Winds of Pleasure: The Music and Writing of Hildegard of Bingen in Context and Revival

MUSI 115. Harmony, Counterpoint, and Form 5

MUSI 119. Composition

MUSI 041. Jazz Ensemble

MUSI 042. Chinese Music Ensemble

MUSI 043. Chorus

MUSI 044. Orchestra

MUSI 046. Wind Ensemble

MUSI 047. Chamber Music

MUSI 048. Individual Instruction

MUSI 049A. Balinese Gamelan

MUSI 050. Garnet Singers

MUSI 052. Class Study of Guitar

PEAC 002. FIRST YEAR SEMINAR: War and Peace in the Media

PEAC 003. The Middle East and North Africa

PEAC 003A. Attachment: Crisis Resolution in the Middle East

PEAC 004. FYS: Campaigning for Social Change

PEAC 005. FYS: Transnational Advocacy Movements

PEAC 009. Introduction to Engaged Scholarship

PEAC 015. Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies

PEAC 021. Environmental Justice in Latin America

PEAC 022. Peace Education

PEAC 023. First Year Seminar: Global Responses to Violence

PEAC 024. Quakers Past and Present

PEAC 025B. Transforming Intractable Conflict

PEAC 036. Environment, Cultural Memory and Social Change in Japan

PEAC 038. Civil Wars & Neoliberal Peace in Central America

PEAC 039. Social Entrepreneurship for Social Change

PEAC 042. Human Rights Law and Advocacy

PEAC 043. Gender, Sexuality, and Social Change

PEAC 053. Contemporary Israel/Palestine

PEAC 070. Research Internship/Fieldwork

PEAC 071B. Research Seminar: Global Nonviolent Action Database

PEAC 077. Gun Violence Prevention: Peace Studies and Action

PEAC 091. Senior Capstone Seminar

PEAC 093. Directed Reading

PEAC 104. Humanitarianism: Education in Emergencies

PEAC 155. FYS: Climate Capitalism & Green Revolutions

PEAC 180. Senior Honors Thesis

PHIL 001A. Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Agency

PHIL 001C. Introduction to Philosophy: Truth and Desire