Courses

Spring 2025

BLST 011. Black Theater & Performance
- (Cross-listed THEA 010)
- Wooden.
BLST 039. Black Health Futures
- Batts.
BLST 040G. Between the "Is" and the "Ought" Black Social and Political Thought
- (Cross-listed as SOCI 048G)
- Johnson.
BLST 042. Black Feminist and Queer Contemporary Culture
- Eligible for GSST
- Batts.
BLST 060. Early Black Media Cultures
- ENGL 060
- Eligible for BLST
- Cohen.
BLST 064A. The New Negro Versus Jim Crow
- (Cross-listed with ENGL 064A)
- Foy.
BLST 133. Race, Boyhood, and Education
- (Cross-listed as EDUC 133)
- Eligible for BLST, GSST
- Nelson.
DANC 043. African Diaspora Traditions I
- Eligible for BLST
- Osayande.
DANC 049C. Repertory/Ensemble: African Diaspora Traditions
- Prerequisite:
  Permission of the instructor.
- Eligible for BLST
- Osayande.
DANC 053. African Diaspora Traditions II
- Prerequisite:
  DANC 043 or permission from instructor.
- Eligible for BLST
- Osayande.
EDUC 133. Race, Boyhood, and Education
- (Cross-listed as BLST 133)
- Eligible for BLST, GSST.
- Nelson.
ENGL 060. Early Black Media Cultures
- (Cross-listed as BLST 060)
- Eligible for BLST.
- Cohen.
ENGL 064A. The New Negro Versus Jim Crow
- Cross-listed as BLST 064A
- Writing course.
- Eligible for BLST.
- Foy.
HIST 007A. Black Atlantic History I: Slavery and Revolutions
- Eligible for BLST, GSST, LALS. Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Domination and Resistance
- Mitchell.
LING 026. Sociolinguistics of Creole Languages (LCS)
- (Cross-listed as SOAN 026)
- Eligible for AFST at BMC and HAV, BLST, ESCH, GLBL, LALS
- Fuller Medina.
MUSI 009B. Music as Oral Tradition
- Eligible for GLBL - Paired, Lang Engaged Scholarship, BLST
- Stewart.
POLS 028. The Urban Underclass and Public Policy (AP)
- Prerequisite:
  POLS 002
- Eligible for BLST.
- Reeves.
RELG 003B. Student Run Course: Mormon Studies
- Hopkins.
SOCI 016B. Research Methods in Social Science (M)
- Eligible for BLST.
- Suya.
THEA 010. Black Theater and Performance
- Wooden.

Fall 2025

ANTH 023C. Anthropological Perspectives on Conservation
- Eligible for BLST, ENVS, GLBL- core
- Schuetze.
BLST 010. FYS: Blackness in the Crosshairs: Living (and dying) in an Anti-Black World
- (Cross-listed as SOCI 005C)
- Veras.
BLST 015. Introduction to Black Studies
- Eligible for BLST, ESCH
- Staff.
BLST 017. Introduction to Black Queer Studies
- Eligible for GSST
- Smith.
BLST 058B. Black Feminisms
- (Cross-listed with SOCi 058B)
- Eligible for GSST
- Johnson, Foy.
BLST 064B. Black Renaissance and Resistance
- (Cross-listed with ENGL 064B)
- Foy.
DANC 043. African Diaspora Traditions I
- Eligible for BLST
- Osayande.
DANC 053. African Diaspora Traditions II
- Prerequisite:
  DANC 043 or permission from instructor.
- Eligible for BLST
- Osayande.
ECON 082. Political Economy of Africa
- Prerequisite:
  ECON 001
- Eligible for BLST, PEAC, GLBL-Paired
- O'Connell.
ENGL 064B. Black Renaissance and Resistance
- Cross-listed as BLST 064B
- Writing course.
- Eligible for BLST.
- Foy.
HIST 007A. Black Atlantic History I: Slavery and Revolutions
- Eligible for BLST, GSST, LALS. Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Domination and Resistance
- Mitchell.
HIST 053. History of the Black Body
- Writing course.
- Eligible for BLST, GSST. Concentrations: Gender and Sexuality, Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Mitchell.
HIST 057B. History and the Digital Turn: Slavery and Resistance
- Prerequisite:
  A HIST or BLST course at Swarthmore.
- Eligible for Method/Theory. Concentrations: Migration, Diaspora, and Space; Domination and Resistance
- Mitchell.
MUSI 008B. Music, Race and Class
- (Cross-listed as BLST 008B)
- Eligible for PEAC, BLST, GLBL-Core, ASAM
- Ouyang.
SOAN 040B. Sociolinguistics: Language, Culture and Society
- (Cross-listed as LING 025)
- Eligible for ESCH.
- Staff.
SOCI 007B. Introduction to Race and Ethnicity in the United States
- Eligible for BLST, ESCH
- Veras.
SOCI 016B. Research Methods in Social Science (M)
- Eligible for BLST.
- Suya..
SOCI 058B. Black Feminisms
- (Cross listed as BLST 058C)
- Eligible for BLST, GSST
- Johnson, Foy.

Spring 2026

ANTH 003G. First-Year Seminar: Development and its Discontents
- Eligible for BLST, ENVS, PEAC, ESCH, GLBL - Core
- Schuetze.
BLST 009. Blackness In and Out of the Museum
- (Cross-listed as ARTH 080)
- Batts.
BLST 042. Black Feminist and Queer Contemporary Culture
- Eligible for GSST
- Batts.
BLST 045. Remapping Caribbean Spaces
- Smith.
BLST 064C. Black Protest and Possibility
- (Cross-listed as ENGL 064C)
- Foy.
DANC 043. African Diaspora Traditions I
- Eligible for BLST
- Osayande.
DANC 049C. Repertory/Ensemble: African Diaspora Traditions
- Prerequisite:
  Permission of the instructor.
- Eligible for BLST
- Osayande.
DANC 053. African Diaspora Traditions II
- Prerequisite:
  DANC 043 or permission from instructor.
- Eligible for BLST
- Osayande.
ENGL 064C. Black Protest and Possibility
- Cross-listed as BLST 064C
- Writing course.
- Eligible for BLST.
- Foy.
ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
- (Cross-listed as SOAN 020M, ENVS 043)
- Eligible for BLST, ENVS, ESCH, GSST, GLBL-core
- DiChiro.
ENVS 043. Race, Gender, Class, and the Environment
- (Cross-listed as ENGL 089, SOAN 020M)
- Eligible for BLST, ENVS, ESCH, GLBL - Core, GSST
- Di Chiro.
FREN 045D. Le monde francophone: Cinémas africains
- Prerequisite:
  FREN 015 or instructor permission.
- Eligible for BLST, FMST, GLBL-paired
- Yervasi.
HIST 007B. Black Atlantic History 2: Freedom and Anticolonial Movements
- Eligible for BLST, LALS. Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Domination and Resistance
- Mitchell.
HIST 050. Healing in the Black Atlantic
- Writing course.
- Eligible for BLST, LALS. Concentrations: Gender and Sexuality; Science, Medicine, and Environment
- Mitchell.
HIST 090T. African Nationalism and Postcolonialism: 1940-1980
- Eligible for BLST, GLBL-paired. Concentrations: Empires and Nations, Migration, Diaspora, and Space
- Burke.
LING 025. Sociolinguistics: Language, Culture, and Society (LCS)
- (Cross-listed as SOAN 040B)
- Eligible for BLST, ESCH.
- Conrod.
LITR 078F. Film and Place: West African Filmmakers at Home and Abroad
- Crosslisted with FMST 058 .
- Eligible for BLST, GLBL-paired
- Yervasi.
POLS 063. African Politics (CP)
- Eligible for BLST; GLBL-Paired; PEAC
- Paddon Rhoads.
SOAN 020M. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
- (Cross-listed as ENVS 043, ENGL 089)
- Eligible for ENVS, GSST, BLST, GLBL-core, ESCH
- Di Chiro.

Fall 2026

ARTH 066. Colloquium: Race, Space, and Architecture
- Eligible for BLST
- Goldstein.
DANC 043. African Diaspora Traditions I
- Eligible for BLST
- Staff.
DANC 053. African Diaspora Traditions II
- Prerequisite:
  DANC 043 or permission from instructor.
- Eligible for BLST
- Staff.
ECON 181. Economic Development
- Prerequisite:
  ECON 011, ECON 021, and either ECON 031, STAT 011, or STAT 021
- Eligible for ASIA, BLST, PEAC
- O'Connell.
HIST 008C. From Leopold to Kabila: The Bad Twentieth Century in Central Africa
- Eligible for BLST. Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Migration, Diaspora and Space
- Burke.
MUSI 005A. Music and Dance Cultures of the World
- (Cross-listed as SOAN 020D)
- Writing course.
- Eligible for GLBL - Core, BLST
- Stewart.
SOCI 020C. Global Colorism
- Eligible for BLST, GLBL-paired, LALS
- Veras.

Spring 2027

DANC 043. African Diaspora Traditions I
- Eligible for BLST
- Staff.
DANC 049C. Repertory/Ensemble: African Diaspora Traditions
- Prerequisite:
  Permission of the instructor.
- Eligible for BLST
- Staff.
DANC 053. African Diaspora Traditions II
- Prerequisite:
  DANC 043 or permission from instructor.
- Eligible for BLST
- Staff.
ECON 081. Economic Development
- Prerequisite:
  ECON 001
- Eligible for ASIA, BLST, PEAC, GLBL-core
- O'Connell.
HIST 007A. Black Atlantic History I: Slavery and Revolutions
- Eligible for BLST, GSST, LALS. Concentrations: Culture and Identity, Domination and Resistance
- Mitchell.
HIST 031. France in Algeria, France and Algerians, 1830-present
- Prerequisite:
  Department prereq of a previous history course, or permission of instructor.
- Eligible for BLST, ISLM, PEAC. Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Empires and Nations
- Brown.
MUSI 009B. Music as Oral Tradition
- Eligible for GLBL - Paired, Lang Engaged Scholarship, BLST
- Stewart.
SOCI 005C. FYS: Blackness in the Crosshairs: Living (and dying) in an Anti-Black World
- (Cross-listed as BLST 010)
- Eligible for BLST
- Veras.
SOCI 016B. Research Methods in Social Science (M)
- Eligible for BLST.
- Suya.
SOCI 020D. Race in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Eligible for BLST, LALS
- Veras.
SPAN 050. Afrocaribe: literatura y cultura visual
- Prerequisite:
  SPAN 022, SPAN 023, the equivalent, or permission of the instructor.
- Eligible for BLST, LALS, FMST, GLBL-Paired
- Díaz.

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