Courses

These courses are currently offered at Swarthmore College towards the Tri-College Asian American Studies minor. The list below includes Asian American Studies Core courses; as well as Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and Transnational/Global Connections with Asia courses.

You will find the full list of Swarthmore courses here.

For current Asian American Studies (ASAM) courses at Bryn Mawr and Haverford, please search here.

Fall 2026

ASAM 005. Music and Asian American Experiences
- (Cross-listed with MUSI 002A)
- 1 credit.
- Ouyang.
ASAM 010. Asian American History
- (Cross-listed as HIST 010)
- Social Sciences.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASIA.
- Truong.
DANC 025A. Dance and Diaspora
- (Cross-listed as ANTH 020J)
- Humanities.
- Writing course.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASIA, BLST, GSST, GLBL-Core, ASAM
- Gerdes.
DANC 052. Studio Practice: Chinese Dance
- GLBL 052
- Humanities.
- 0.5 credit or P.E.
- Eligible for ASIA, ASAM, GLBL paired
- Zhao.
EDUC 053. Educating Emergent Bilinguals
- (Cross-listed as LING 053)
- Prerequisite:
  EDUC 014 or permission of the instructor.
- Social sciences.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for LALS, ESCH, ASAM
- Phuong.
EDUC 068. Urban Education
- (Cross-listed as SOAN 020B)
- Social sciences.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for BLST, LALS, ESCH, ASAM.
- Liu.
EDUC 161. Politics, Policy and Education
- Prerequisite:
  EDUC 014.
  Recommended: EDUC 068 and EDUC 041.
- Social sciences.
- Writing course.
- 2 credits.
- Eligible for ESCH, ASAM, LALS, BLST.
- Mayorga.
GLBL 052. Studio Practice:Chinese Dance
- (Cross-listed as DANC 052)
- Humanities.
- 0.5 credit or P.E.
- Eligible for ASIA, ASAM, GLBL paired
- Zhao.
HIST 061. Mapping Rivers: The Indus and the Ganges in Global History
- Social sciences.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASAM, ASIA, ENVS and GLBL-Paired. Concentrations: Science, Medicine, and Environment.
- Azfar.
LALS 015. First Year Seminar: Introduction to Latinx Literature and Culture
- (Cross-listed with SPAN 015, ENGL 009F, LITR 015S)
- Humanities.
- Writing Course.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for CPLT
- Díaz.
LING 053. Educating Emergent Bilinguals (LCS)
- (Cross-listed as EDUC 053)
- Social sciences.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for CBL, LALS, ASAM
- Phuong.
MUSI 002A. Music and Asian American Experiences
- Cross listed with ASAM 005
- Humanities.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASAM.
- Ouyang.
SOAN 020B. Urban Education
- (Cross-listed as EDUC 068)
- Social sciences.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASAM, BLST, ESCH, LALS
- Liu.

Spring 2027

ASAM 001. First-Year Seminar: Chinatowns: Then & Now
- Cross-listed as HIST 001N
- Social Sciences.
- Writing course.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASIA; ESCH.
- Truong.
ASAM 002. Taiko & Asian American Experiences
- (Cross-listed as DANC 003, MUSI 002C)
- Humanities.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASIA, ESCH.
- Ouyang.
ASAM 009. Transpacific Personalities: Asian American Literature and the Personal Essay
- Cross-listed with ENGL 009T.
- Humanities.
- Writing course.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for Global Studies paired.
- Cañete Rodriguez Kelly.
ASAM 011. Advancing Inclusive Histories: Creating a K-12 Asian American Studies Curriculum.
- (Cross-listed as EDUC 011)
- Social Sciences.
- Writing course.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ESCH.
- Liu.
ASAM 065. Asian American Literature: Culture, History, and Translation
- (Cross-listed as ENGL 065)
- Humanities.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASIA; GLBL paired
- Cañete Rodriguez Kelly.
BLST 067. James Baldwin's Civil Rights
- (Cross-listed as ENGL 067)
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASAM
- Foy.
DANC 079A. Screening Bollywood Film
- 0.5 Credit.
- Eligible for ASIA, GSST, ASAM, FMST
- Chakravorty.
EDUC 048. From the Undercommons: Ethnic Studies and Education
- Social science.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for LALS, BLST, ASAM, ESCH.
- Mayorga.
ENGL 067. James Baldwin's Civil Rights
- Cross-listed as BLST 067
- Humanities.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for BLST, ASAM.
- Foy.
HIST 056. Police, Prisons, & Protests
- Prerequisite:
  Previous course in the department or instructor permission.
- Social sciences.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASAM, PEAC, ESCH. Concentrations: Domination and Resistance
- Truong.
MUSI 002C. Taiko & Asian American Experiences
- (cross-listed as DANC 003, ASAM 002)
- Humanities.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASIA, Lang Engaged Scholarship
- Ouyang.
MUSI 100. Ethnomusicology Seminar
- (Cross-listed as SOAN 100)
- Humanities.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for GLBL-core, ASAM
- Ouyang.
RELG 008. Patterns of Asian Religions
- Humanities.
- Writing course.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASIA, GLBL-Paired, ASAM
- Hopkins.
SOAN 100. Ethnomusicology Seminar
- (Cross-listed as MUSI 100)
- Social sciences.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASAM, GLBL core
- Ouyang.

Fall 2027

ARTH 046. Socially Engaged Art in the Americas
- Humanities.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ESCH, PEAC, GLBL-paired, LALS, ASAM
- Checa-Gismero.
CHIN 055. Chinese and Sinophone Cinemas
- (Cross-listed as LITR 055CH)
- Humanities.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASIA, CPLT, ASAM, FMST
- Staff.
EDUC 053. Educating Emergent Bilinguals
- (Cross-listed as LING 053)
- Prerequisite:
  EDUC 014 or permission of the instructor.
- Social sciences.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for LALS, ESCH, ASAM
- Staff.
LITR 055CH. Chinese and Sinophone Cinemas
- (Cross-listed as CHIN 055)
- Humanities.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for CPLT, FMST, ASIA, ASAM
- Staff.
MUSI 008B. Music, Race and Class
- (Cross-listed as BLST 008B)
- Humanities.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for PEAC, BLST, GLBL-Core, ASAM
- Ouyang.

Spring 2028

ASAM 002. Taiko & Asian American Experiences
- (Cross-listed as DANC 003, MUSI 002C)
- Humanities.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASIA, ESCH.
- Ouyang.
MUSI 002C. Taiko & Asian American Experiences
- (cross-listed as DANC 003, ASAM 002)
- Humanities.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASIA, Lang Engaged Scholarship
- Ouyang.
RELG 008. Patterns of Asian Religions
- Humanities.
- Writing course.
- 1 credit.
- Eligible for ASIA, GLBL-Paired, ASAM
- Hopkins.

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