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- SOAN 008C : Bioethics: A Sociological Perspective (SC)
- ENGL 091 : Feminist Film and Media Studies (SC)
- SOAN 006C : Forest of Symbols (SC)
- SOAN 003D : FYS International Human Rights (SC)
- SOAN 3D : International Human Rights/Local Culture (SC)
- SOAN 4B : Introduction to Contemporary Social Thought (SC)
- LING 021: SOAN 020 : Language, Race & Ethnic Identities (SC)
- SOAN 28E : Methods of Social Exploration (SC)
- SOAN 98 : Thesis Writers Master Class (SC)
- DANC 077B : Visual Anthropology of Performance (SC)
Art and Art History
- ARTH 13 : Art & Architecture of Ancient Greece and Rome (SC)
- ARTH 020 : Art History Junior Workshop (SC)
- ARTH 001H : Art of the Japanese Tea Ceremony (SC)
- ARTH 26 : Arts of Spain and Portugal (SC)
- ARTH 019 : Contemporary Art (SC)
- ARTH 39 : Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture (SC)
- ARTH 001 : Making Art History (SC)
- Arth 1E : Michelangelo (SC)
- ARTH 001F : Picasso (SC)
- Arth 51 : Renaissance Art - Florence (SC)
- ARTH 074 : Studies in the History of Photography (SC)
Asian Studies
Astronomy
Biology
- Biology 134 : Analysis of Adaptation (Purrington) (SC)
- Biology 30 : Animal Behavior (Hagelin) (SC)
- Biology 3 (FYS) : Animal Communication (SC)
- Biology 20 : Animal Physiology (Hiebert Burch) (SC)
- Biology 130 : Behavioral Ecology (Hagelin) (SC)
- Biology 137 : Biodiversity & Ecosystem Functioning (Machado) (SC)
- Biology 126 : Biomechanics (Merz) (SC)
- Biology 14 : Cell Biology (Vallen) (SC)
- Biology 114 : Cell Regulation: Symbiotic Interactions (Vallen) (SC)
- Biology 1 : Cellular & Molecular Biology (SC)
- Biology 21 : Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (Downs) (SC)
- Biology 24 : Developmental Biology (Gilbert) (SC)
- Biology 111 : Developmental Genetics (Gilbert) (SC)
- Biology 36 : Ecology (Machado) (SC)
- Biology 34 : Evolution (Purrington) (SC)
- Biology 3 : FYS: Infectious Diseases (Zola) (SC)
- Biology 10 : Genetics (Jenkins) (SC)
- Biology 119 : Genomics & Systems Biology (Kaplinsky) (SC)
- Biology 124 : Hormones & Behavior (Hiebert Burch) (SC)
- Biology 110 : Human Genetics (Jenkins) (SC)
- Biology 123 : Learning & Memory (Siwicki) (SC)
- Biology 27 : Lives of Plants (SC)
- Biology 39 : Marine Biology (Merz) (SC)
- Biology 17 : Microbial Pathogenesis & the Immune Response (Vollmer) (SC)
- Biology 116 : Microbial Processes & Biotechnology (Vollmer) (SC)
- Biology 16 : Microbiology (Zola/Vollmer) (SC)
- Biology 136 : Molecular Ecology & Evolution (SC)
- Biology 22 : Neurobiology (Siwicki) (SC)
- Biology 2 : Organismal & Population Biology (SC)
- Biology 25 : Plant Biology (Kaplinsky) (SC)
- Biology 115 : Plant Molecular Genetics (Kaplinsky) (SC)
- Biology 12 : Special Topics in Molecular Biology: Cancer Biology (SC)
- Biology 29 : Stem Cells & Cloning (SC)
- Biology 28 : Winter Biology (SC)
Black Studies
Chemistry
- Chemistry 38 : Biological Chemistry (Miller) (SC)
- Chemistry 1 : Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society (SC)
- Chemistry 1 : Chemistry in the Human Environment (SC)
- Chemistry 10 & 10H : General Chemistry (SC)
- Chemistry 3 : General Chemistry (SC)
- Chemistry 4 : General Chemistry I & II (Holliday/Howard) (SC)
- Chemistry 44 : Physical Chemistry: Atoms, Molecules & Spectroscopy (Howard) (SC)
- Chemistry 94/96/180 : Swarthmore Chemistry Research Thesis/Project (SC)
- Chemistry 108 : Topics in BioChemistry (SC)
- Chemistry 102 : Topics in Modern Chemistry (Paley) (SC)
Classics
Computer Science
Cultural Studies
Dance
- DANC 072 : African Performance: Traditional & Contemporary Practices (SC)
- DANC/MUSC 008B : Anatomy for Performers (SC)
- DANC/MUSC 010 : Dance & Music: a Social Dialogue (SC)
- DANC 025 : Dance and Diaspora (SC)
- DANC 038 : Dance and the Sacred (SC)
- DANC 003 : Dance in the Movies (SC)
- DANC 079 : Dancing Desire in Bollywood Films (SC)
- DANC 036 : Dancing Identities (SC)
- DANC 001 : Global Approaches to Dance Studies: Continuity and Change (SC)
- DANC 022 : History of Dance: Europe to 1900 (SC)
- MUSC 091 : Introduction to Performing Arts Education (SC)
- DANC/MUSC 005 : Patterns of Asian Dance & Music (SC)
- DANC 077B : Visual Anthropology of Performance (SC)
Economics
Education
- ED 23 : Adolescence (SC)
- ED 121 : Child Psychology and Practice (SC)
- ED 17 : Curriculum and Methods (SC)
- ED 14 : FYS Introduction to Education (SC)
- MUSC 091 : Introduction to Performing Arts Education (SC)
- EDUC 53 : Language Minority Education (SC)
- LING 021: SOAN 020 : Language, Race & Ethnic Identities (SC)
- Psychology 96/98/180 : Psychology Thesis & Research Project Guide (SC)
- HIST 47 : The Politics of Education: Class and Race in Urban America (SC)
Engineering
- Engineering 5 : Engineering Methodology (Cheever) (SC)
- Engineering 61 : Geotechnical Engineering: Theory & Design (SC)
- Engineering 59 : Mechanics of Solids (Siddiqui) (SC)
- Engineering 28/CS 82 : Mobile Robotics (SC)
- Engineering/CS 25 : Principles of Computer Architecture (SC)
- Engineering 3 : Problems in Technology (Macken) (SC)
- Engineering 90/96 : Senior Engineering Design Project/Senior Thesis (SC)
- Engineering 35 : Solar Energy Systems (Everbach) (SC)
- Engineering 60 : Structural Theory & Design I (Siddiqui) (SC)
- Engineering 62 : Structural Theory & Design II (SC)
- Computer Science : Swarthmore Computer Science Courses (SC)
- Engineering 63 : Water Quality & Pollution Control (SC)
English Literature
- ENGL 116 : American Literature (SC)
- ENGL 009J : Battling Against Voldemort (SC)
- ENGL 009J : Battling Against Voldemort (SC)
- Literature 19 : Cultural Identity in the European Union (SC)
- English 99 : English Lit Seniors Colloquium (SC)
- Engl 054 : Faulkner, Morrison, and the Representations of Race (SC)
- ENGL 091 : Feminist Film and Media Studies (SC)
- ENGL 29 : Food and Literature (SC)
- English 9P : FYS: Women and Popular Culture (SC)
- ENGL 1A : Insights Into Academic Writing (SC)
- Engl 1A : Insights into Academic Writing (SC)
- Engl 009 : Interrogating Gender (SC)
- Engl 65 : Intro to Asian American Literature (SC)
- Engl 65 : Intro to Asian American Literature (SC)
- English 45 : Modern British Poetry (SC)
- Engl 9D : Nations and Migrations (SC)
- Eng 009V : Sexuality, Religion, and the Power of Music (SC)
- Engl 009 : The Poetics of Power (SC)
- ENGL 009X : Ways of Seeing (SC)
Environmental Studies
- Physics 24 : Earth's Climate/Global Warming (Collings) (SC)
- Biology 36 : Ecology (Machado) (SC)
- Envs 090/092/096 : Environmental Studies Research Project/Senior Thesis (SC)
- Biology 34 : Evolution (Purrington) (SC)
- Physics 20 : Principles of Earth Sciences (Collings) (SC)
- Engineering 35 : Solar Energy Systems (Everbach) (SC)
- Engineering 63 : Water Quality & Pollution Control (SC)
Film and Media Studies
- FMST 87 : American Narrative Cinema (SC)
- FMST 43 : Conspiracy (SC)
- DANC 003 : Dance in the Movies (SC)
- DANC 079 : Dancing Desire in Bollywood Films (SC)
- ENGL 091 : Feminist Film and Media Studies (SC)
- English 9P : FYS: Women and Popular Culture (SC)
- DANC 077B : Visual Anthropology of Performance (SC)
- FMST 10 : War News Radio: Blog Watch (SC)
- FMST 10 : War News Radio: Business Search Strategies (SC)
- FMST 10 : War News Radio: Research Tips (SC)
French
Gender and Women's Studies
Geology
History
- HIST 1Q : Angels of Death: Russia Under Lenin and Stalin (SC)
- HIST 78 : Beijing and Shanghai (SC)
- HIST 18 : Cities of the Middle East (SC)
- HIST 66 : Disease, Culture, and Society in the Modern World (SC)
- Hist 37 : History and Memory: Perspectives on the Holocaust (SC)
- HIST 1L : History of Leisure and Play (SC)
- HIST 3A : Modern Europe, 1789 to 1918 (SC)
- HIST 77 : Orientalism East and West (SC)
- HIST 49 : Race and Foreign Affairs (SC)
- HIST 51 : Race and Poverty in the United States (SC)
- HIST 1D : Religion and Social Change in the U.S. (SC)
- Hist 1R : Remembering History (SC)
- Hist 31 : Revolutionary Iconoclasm (SC)
- HIST 1E : Self-Image of Latin America (SC)
- HIST 91 : Senior Research Seminar (SC)
- HIST 1S : The American West (SC)
- HIST 47 : The Politics of Education: Class and Race in Urban America (SC)
- HIST IE : The Self-Image of Latin America (SC)
- HIST 5B : The United States from 1877 to the Present (SC)
- Hist 5B : United States from 1877 to the Present (SC)
- HIST 1V : Witches, Witchcraft, and Witch Hunts (SC)
History - Primary Sources
Islamic Studies
Languages and Literature
- RUSS 017 : FYS The Erotic Imagination: Love and Sex in Russian Literature (SC)
- FREN 012 : Introduction aux études françaises et francophones (SC)
- FREN 091 : Senior Colloquium (SC)
- LITR 015 : Between Appetite and Aesthetics (SC)
- Literature 19 : Cultural Identity in the European Union (SC)
- FREN 033 : Fictions d'enfance (SC)
- SPAN 014 : FYS Childhood in Latin American Literature (SC)
- RUSS 015 : FYS East European Prose in Translation (SC)
- ENGL 1A : Insights Into Academic Writing (SC)
- FREN 091 : Senior Colloquium: Écriture féminine au XXe siècle (SC)
Latin American Studies
Linguistics
Mathematics
Music
- DANC 072 : African Performance: Traditional & Contemporary Practices (SC)
- DANC/MUSC 008B : Anatomy for Performers (SC)
- MUSC 049 : Balinese Gamelan (SC)
- MUSC 021 : Baroque & Classical Music (SC)
- MUSC 007B : Beethoven and the Romantic Spirit (SC)
- MUSC 104 : Chopin (SC)
- MUSC 018 : Conducting and Orchestration (SC)
- DANC/MUSC 010 : Dance & Music: a Social Dialogue (SC)
- MUSC 091 : Introduction to Performing Arts Education (SC)
- MUSC 005A : Introduction to the Study of World Music (SC)
- MUSC 34 : J.S. Bach (SC)
- MUSC 003 : Jazz Today (SC)
- MUSC 048 : Lessons for Credit (SC)
- MUSC 103 : Mahler and Britten (SC)
- MUSC 020 : Medieval and Renaissance Music (SC)
- MUSC 09A : Music and Mathematics (SC)
- MUSC 006 : Music of the Holocaust and World War II Era (SC)
- MUSC 031 : Musics of Central and South America and the Caribbean (SC)
- MUSC 022 : Nineteenth-Century Europe (SC)
- MUSC 004A : Opera (SC)
- DANC/MUSC 005 : Patterns of Asian Dance & Music (SC)
- Eng 009V : Sexuality, Religion, and the Power of Music (SC)
- MUSC 004B : The Symphony (SC)
- MUSC 023 : Twentieth-Century Music (SC)
- MUSC 007A : W. A. Mozart (SC)
Peace Studies
Physics
- Physics 24 : Earth's Climate/Global Warming (Collings) (SC)
- Physics 2 : FYS: Chaos, Fractals, Complexity, Self-Organization & Emergence (SC)
- Physics 1 : FYS: Physics - Light, Color, Nature (SC)
- Physics 2B : FYS: Quantum Theory in Search of Reality (Boccio) (SC)
- Physics 3 : General Physics I (Moscatelli) (SC)
- Physics 094/180 : Physics Research Project/Honors Thesis (SC)
- Physics 20 : Principles of Earth Sciences (Collings) (SC)
- Physics 5 : Spacetime, Quanta, Cosmology (Cohen/Bug) (SC)
Political Science
Psychology
- PSYC 038.01 : Abnormal Psychology (SC)
- ED 23 : Adolescence (SC)
- ED 121 : Child Psychology and Practice (SC)
- Psychology 38 : Clinical Psychology (Reimer) (SC)
- Psychology 96/98/180 : Psychology Thesis & Research Project Guide (SC)
- Psychology 25 : Research Design & Analysis (Baird) (SC)
- Psychology 138 : Seminar in Clinical Psychology (Gillham) (SC)
Public Policy
Religion
Sociology
- SOAN 008C : Bioethics: A Sociological Perspective (SC)
- SOAN 006C : Forest of Symbols (SC)
- SOAN 003D : FYS International Human Rights (SC)
- SOAN 3D : International Human Rights/Local Culture (SC)
- SOAN 4B : Introduction to Contemporary Social Thought (SC)
- PEAC 015 : Introduction to Peace & Conflict Studies (SC)
- LING 021: SOAN 020 : Language, Race & Ethnic Identities (SC)
- SOAN 28E : Methods of Social Exploration (SC)
- SOAN 03B : Nations and National Identity (SC)
- SOAN 98 : Thesis Writers Master Class (SC)
Spanish
Theater
Writing Programs



