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Tri-Co Philly: Philadelphia’s Opioid Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Interventions Community Engagement and Social Responsibility
This course will draw on direct student engagement and the experience of community partners—including medical practitioners, harm reduction activists, politicians, journalists, people who use drugs, and affected communities—to interrogate the causes and consequences of drug overdose.
Tri-Co Philly: Philadelphia and the 2024 Election
This course will cover, as the title suggests, the role of people and political organizations in Philadelphia in the 2024 Election as it is happening. We will work together to understand how people understand politics, and how political campaigns, PACs, and non-profit organizations work to persuade and mobilize potential voters.
Tri-Co Philly: Narrativity and Hip Hop
This course explores narrative and poetic forms and themes in hip-hop culture in Philadelphia and beyond.
Tri-Co Philly: Popular Music and Media
This team-taught interdisciplinary course investigates the histories, structures and cultural connections between popular music and other media in the city of Philadelphia.
Tri-Co Philly: Fight for #PhlEd: Urban Educational and Environmental Justice
Fight for #PhlEd is an examination of urbanism and environmental justice as seen through of urban education politics in Philadelphia and other US cities.
Tri-Co Philly: University City: Race, Power and Politics in Philadelphia
This class aims to trace the history of higher education and its ongoing impact on the geography, economy, and culture of greater Philadelphia and U.S. urban space broadly.
Tri-Co Philly: Urban Spaces, Historical Places: Society, Health and Social Justice in Philadelphia
This course will take a broad view of the nation’s first capital, in anthropological, geographic, and historical perspective.
Tri-Co Philly: A City of Homes: Housing Issues in Philadelphia
This class investigates the unique history of housing in Philadelphia. We will cover the problems the city has faced and still faces in providing affordable housing, fair access to housing and creating diverse and vibrant neighborhoods and its great legacy of innovation in this area.
Tri-Co Philly: Contemporary Art and Film in Philadelphia
This course will explore the vibrant contemporary art world of the city of Philadelphia—a city uniquely positioned to attract artists with its many top-tier fine art schools, world-class museums, affordable living and studio spaces, and thriving network of artist-run galleries and exhibition spaces.
Mawr Insight: Interviewing 101
"It can be hard to learn about student clubs and dorm life, but in an interview you can talk about these things in detail."
Apulia: Undiscovered Italy
Wednesday, June 1-Thursday, June 9, 2022
Dutch Waterways
Monday, April 25-Tuesday, May 3, 2022