The following new courses are offered in Sociology/Anthropology:
SOAN 028E. Methods of Social Exploration
Social phenomena aren’t made up of a bunch of transparent facts open to all; they have to be explored using particular methods and technologies. None of these methods are wholly objective, reliable, or comprehensive, and none of them are as easy as you might think. This is mainly because evidence of social activity can only be obtained by way of further social activity, such as talking and reading, becoming involved in people’s lives, going to archives, and interacting with other powerful organizations. This course discusses these issues and covers a wide range of different methods of social exploration, including; archival and oral history; interviews; participant observation; analysis of interactions, conversations, texts, and media images; use of audio and video recording; sample surveys and questionnaires; government and academic databases; Geographic Information Systems, and network mapping. With all of these options at their fingertips researchers can hopefully use the combinations most suited to getting at what interests them, as well as better understand, critique, and make use of relevant past research.

Professor Michael Reay – Wednesday 1:15–4:00 p.m. Kohlberg 228

SOAN 035D. Medical Aspects of Human Adaptation
Alas, this imperfect world that we inhabit persists in visiting diseases upon us. This course examines this enduring and distressing parameter of human existence from a number of perspectives. 1) Disease, ecology, and human evolution. 2) Epidemiology: biological and cultural aspects of the origin and dispersal of disease. 3) Ethnomedical systems: specific cultural phrasings of the understanding and experience of, and the response to, the nexus of issues, health/illness/healing. (3) will involve looking at the ethnomedical systems of foraging bands, American biomedicine, and The Four Noble Truths.
Writing course.

Professor Steve Piker – Tuesday 1:15–4:00 p.m. Trotter 203

SOAN 048C. Sociology of Science
This class explores the wide range of work on science as a social phenomenon. After a brief discussion of key themes in the philosophy of science, it looks at the various ‘internal’ aspects of science as an institution, including its organizational structures, work practices, status systems, and forms of discourse. It then turns to the ‘external’ issues of how science relates to the rest of society, including its connection to gender, racial, and international inequality, its portrayal in the media, its relationship to technology, its conflicts with religion, and its authority as ‘objective’ truth in law and government. Authors covered will include Robert Merton, Karin Knorr, Bruno Latour, Ian Hacking, Sharon Traweek, Emily Martin, Dorothy Nelkin, and Sheila
Jasanoff. The class will also involve a field trip to analyze The Franklin Institute Science Museum.

Professor Michael Reay – M.W. F. 10:30–11:20 a.m. Kohlberg 228

SOAN 106. Mobilities.
This Seminar will introduce students to “the new mobilities paradigm” in the social sciences, encompassing both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as the more local processes of daily transportation and the travel of material things within everyday life. New social, cultural, and technological practices of mobility are eliciting new research initiatives, theoretical approaches, and public policy concerns. Mobilities and their regulation are centrally involved in reorganizing institutions, generating climate change, moving risks and illnesses across the globe, altering travel and tourism patterns, and producing more ‘networked’ patterns of economic and social life. This course will consider issues such as the relation between mobility and immobility, mobility justice and mobility rights, and how a mobile life is sustainable into the long-term. Readings will include sociologists, cultural geographers, anthropologists and social theorists of space, urbanism, transnationalism, and reflexive mobility.

Professor Mimi Sheller – Monday 1:15–4:00 p.m. Kohlberg 236

The Swarthmore Migration Project (http://swatmigration.wordpress.com) is looking for Swatties to blog about migrant communities and migration stories from around the world. If you’re interested, please contact Calvin at cho1.

Don’t worry!
The schedule has been posted in Parrish across from the post office. Simply look to see when there’s an open shuttle and where the pickup
locations are. If there is room in the van (capacity is 9 people), then you may catch a ride. You will have to pay $10!

E-mail vanreq if you have questions!

Some students going to protest the School of the Americas in Georgia this weekend need sleeping bags because we will be camping on saturday night. It is very cold in GA and we would be so grateful if YOU would lend us your sleeping bag. We are leaving at 5pm on friday. please email ddelude1 if you can help us out! Thanks

Come enjoy free food and good company at the annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Dinner! Open to all students, very relaxed—come and leave as you please!

Saturday, Nov. 22nd, 2008
6:00–7:30pm
Bond Hall (upstairs!)

Traditional Thanksgiving food will be served, with Kosher/Halal and vegetarian options.

If you are interested in Buddhism, the Buddhist Community at Swarthmore has meetings Sunday at 6 in Sharples room 5. Open to all who would like to know more about Buddhism and ways to practice. Ask about upcoming events/lectures!

e-mail kuyehar1@swarthmore.edu for more info.

Like taking photos?
Don’t like taking photos?
Have you EVER taken a photograph?
Have you EVER even accidentally taken a photograph?

IT DOESN‘T EVEN MATTER!

SUBMIT to PUN/CTUM !!!!!!

Swarthmore’s newest publication showcasing the photographs of the Swarthmore community!

Send up to 5 photographs to pun.ctum.mag@gmail.com or check us out on Flickr.

Have you ever noticed how radically different the Hebrew Bible seems in different translations? If you want to understand the enigma of this text…if you want to experience it through your own eyes… if you want to plumb its depths, appreciate its beauty, and confront its challenges… you must read it as it has come down to us from ancient times, that is, in Hebrew. When you can strip away the layers of interpretation to bare its inner soul, then you can begin to understand its role in the great religious and cultural traditions that whirl around it.

Hebrew for Text Study I (Relg 57/Ling 7) will be offered in Spring 2009. This course is normally offered only in the fall, so you have an unusual opportunity to get started learning Hebrew now. M-W-F 9:30–10:20, in the
Beit Midrash.

Contact Helen Plotkin with any questions, or if you already have some Hebrew background and wonder which level is right for you.

Club Despertar will be hosting a bilingual tutor training workshop led by Kate Grossman on Sunday, Nov. 23 and Monday, Nov. 24 from 7–9pm in Hicks 211. Snacks and refreshments will be served.

If interested, please RSVP to Maribel Gomez (mgomez1). There is a maximum of 30 students that can participate in the workshop, so please RSVP by Friday, Nov. 21 if you will be attending.

Looking for help with my senior linguistics thesis. I would really appreciate if someone on campus would be willing to give me grammaticality judgments on some sentences in African-American Vernacular English. I’ll provide coffee or a similarly yummy beverage! Thanks!

Sale Items:

SHARP XL-HP515 Stereo – Tape deck and AM/FM radio with great sound quality. Comes with a remote – $35 Or Best Offer

Samsung 19” Tube TV – $35 Or Best Offer

Please contact sams_09@yahoo.com for more information.

All Black History Month events are due to sblack1 by Monday, December 15. Events must include: title, location, date, and time in order to be advertised on the master calendar.

—
Shameika Black ‘11
BCC Programming Intern
SASS Social Coordinator
sblack1@swarthmore.edu

Boren Scholarship (NSEP—National Security Education Program) applications are now available for full academic year or semester programs. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors may also apply for summer programs of eight weeks or longer. NSEP award recipients must make a commitment to working in the federal government for a minimum of one year. Boren Scholarships allow U.S. undergraduate students to study less commonly taught languages in world regions critical to US interests but underrespresented in study abroad.
If you are interested, please see Rosa Bernard in Pearson 113, rbernar1@swarthmore.edu. Also, for more info www. borenawards.org. Campus deadline is: December 19, 2008

Please contact me if you’ve seen a red FUJI ARCADIA road bike. I left it outside Sharples for two nights and now it’s missing. Email ctse1 or call 917–892-6648, thanks.

A pair of eyeglasses was found last Saturday evening in Paces. If they’re yours, please stop by the Dean’s Office, Parrish 108, to claim.

Lost USB, it contains very important documents. Please
let me know if you have found it…

Hi, my black packpack which had a library book and a bunch of dirty clothes in it was taken between 1 and 2 in Sharples today. If you mistakenly picked it up, my cell number is 646–351-2943. Please return it to me!

Last Wednesday or Thursday my bike which was locked to a rack outside of Trotter was stolen. It is a Gary Fisher bike that is mostly black/very dark blue with light blue in the center. If anyone sees it please call me at 215–370-7107 or email me sdohert1@swarthmore.edu. Thanks!

If anyone has seen my Spanish book called Spanish Composition through literature by Candido Ayllon. Please if you have seen it, return it to me. Thanks so much.

Contact: Simon Nin Zhu (sbc@swarthmore.edu)

Pay:$8.50

Hours: 4 per week

When: Spring Semeter

Where: Clothier 213

~4 hours/week, one semester term, three positions available

Assistant Managers aid in the administration and regulation of the SAA by attending SBC office hours, filing, recording, and helping people access funds that have been allocated. Job provides excellent training in office management and experience. Will also oversee SBC development projects at the direction of the Manager, including working with various campus groups and administrators. Potential for advancement to Manager. No prior experience necessary. Underclasspersons are encouraged to apply.

To apply, please reply to this email with a short resume and description of why you are interested in the position. Applications are due November 29th by 9:00pm. For more information about the position, please contact our current Assistant Managers, Adriana Popa, Tuan Dung Mai, Haichao Wu, or myself Simon Nin Zhu (sbc@swarthmore.edu).

Contact: Ali Placido (aplacid1@swarthmore.edu)

Penn Medicine needs a Dutch speaker for a patient who is hospitalized. Email me to discuss further details.

Contact: joyce tompkins (jtompki1@swarthmore.edu)

Pay:$8.60

Hours: vary

When: begin Jan '10

Where: campus

Applications are invited for the position of Interfaith intern for spring/fall semesters 2010. the interfaith interns:
* work together to initiate interfaith programs;
*plan and implement Religion and Spirituality on Campus Week (first week of Feburary);
*plan and implement the spring interfaith dinner;
*build communication between different student religious and spiritual groups on campus;
*help to raise the profile of religious life on campus through activities, publicity, web site updates;
*meet regularly with Joyce Tompkins, Interfaith Coordinator;
*other activities according to the interests of the particular interns.

To apply for one of these positions, please write a one-page essay outlining the reasons for your interest, your experience with religious/spiritual/interfaith life at Swarthmore, and ideas you might have for improving programs and communication between groups.

Applications should be sent to Joyce Tompkins at jtompki1 by December 5.

Contact: Caroline (caroline.sacko@gmail.com)

Pay:$150/week ($50/day)

Hours: 3:30pm-6:30pm

When: Monday, Tueday, Thursday

Where: Park Stree

I am currently a nanny for a family in the ville (on Park Street 5 minutes from the train station). I am looking for someone to take over Monday, Tuesday and Thursday (Tuesday and Thursday are negotiable). In a normal day you pick the kids up from the bus stop, make an after school snack, put in a load of laundry, prepare dinner and help with homework. No car necessary.

Contact: Julie Warech (jwarech1@swarthmore.edu)

I am looking for someone interested in giving guitar lessons (probably once a week). Someone who is a good teacher, preferably someone who can teach chord theory. Pay can be worked out. Contact me by email if interested.