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Issue Areas

Organize your energies! If you’re passionate about an issue, we can help you find relevant courses, research, internships, and volunteer opportunities, whatever your academic major.

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Faculty-Led Initiatives

We house faculty-led programs that encourage interdisciplinary learning and Engaged Scholarship. Current programs: Urban Inequality & Incarceration, Global Studies Initiative, Health & Societies, Arts in Action. 

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Resources

The Lang Center provides a variety of resources to students, faculty, and community members, including funding, advising, transportation, and space.

The Lang Center in the News

Mellon Tri-College Creative Residencies Program Brings Boundary-Breaking Artists to Swarthmore

Mellon Tri-College Creative Residencies Program Brings Boundary-Breaking Artists to Swarthmore

Professor of Linguistics Donna Jo Napoli organized one of more than a dozen residencies sponsored by the program this year.More
Jim MacMillan: GunCrisis.org and Seeking Solutions to Gun Violence in Philadelphia with Digital Journalism

Jim MacMillan: GunCrisis.org and Seeking Solutions to Gun Violence in Philadelphia with Digital Journalism

Jim MacMillan discusses his organization's efforts to reduce gun violence in Philadelphia. Introduction by Lee Smithey. More

Michael Walzer: Politics, Justice, and Jewish Thought

Michael Walzer: Politics, Justice, and Jewish Thought

Michael Walzer, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., discusses his pioneering work. More

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