Programs

Swarthmore College offers courses in Arabic language, literature, and culture. The Arabic program, though based in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, is an integral part of Islamic Studies at Swarthmore....

Art courses at Swarthmore engage students on an individual level to strengthen their paths as young artists. Our courses develop visual analysis skills, expand awareness of potential avenues for self-expression, and prov...

What Art History Teaches Us Much of the knowledge and information produced in the 21st century is communicated through images. Studying art history provides students with the skills to critically analyze and comprehend t...

The Tri-College Asian American Studies Program enables students to think, read, and write about sociocultural issues relating to the experiences of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans in the United States today. The pro...

Why Asian Studies? Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary program that introduces students to the critical and methodological approaches that have informed the study of Asia. As one of the largest interdisciplinary progra...

The Physics and Astronomy Department offers a wide variety of classes, including an ambitious curriculum of advanced seminars for our physics, astrophysics, and astronomy majors, but also many introductory classes f...

Drug discoveries, space exploration, computer innovations, agricultural progress, and developing alternative energy sources - these and many more innovations rely on advances in chemistry and biochemistry. The work of ch...

At Swarthmore College, learning about biology is doing biology. At all levels of our curriculum, students are engaged in learning about the functions and evolution of diverse biological systems as well as the methods by...

The purpose of the Black Studies Program is  to introduce students to the history, culture, art, social relationships, and political, religious, and economic experiences of Black people in Africa, the Americas, and...

Swarthmore College offers a range of courses in Chinese language, literature, and culture which are integrated into a broad program of Asian Studies and further offerings in Chinese language, history, culture a...