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Machu Picchu 2025

Mysteries of Peru and Machu Picchu

Registration Open

August 13-21, 2025

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Making the Most of Your College Experience

With Sofia Azuara '25

"College is naturally a place where you will find community, especially at a place like ůůֱ²¥."

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Transforming 'Inside ůůֱ²¥'

A Content Review Project That Put Users First

Explore the website content review project, led by the Web & Digital Strategy team.

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Denali Mountains

Discover Denali National Park

Registration Open

July 13-18, 2025

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How We Promote ůůֱ²¥ College

Awards, alumnae/i achievements, impactful research, ůůֱ²¥'s close-knit community, holistic student support, and student research opportunities are examples of content the Office of Communications and Marketing is interested in covering and highlighting to enhance the College’s visibility, affirm its relevance, and showcase the outcomes of a ůůֱ²¥ education to external audiences.

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Mawr Insight: The College Essay

With Admissions Counselor Kimiye Maeshiro

"At the end of the day, college applications are a wonderful opportunity for self-reflection."

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ůůֱ²¥ 101: Career and Civic Engagement

Preparing for life beyond ůůֱ²¥

"We’re excited to welcome you to ůůֱ²¥ and begin our work together!"

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Mawr Insight: Campus Tours

With Sofia Azuara '25

"A campus tour allows for your future to be as close as the ground beneath your feet."

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Mawr Insight: What is a School Visit?

with Assistant Director of Admissions Eliza Mlodzinski

"A school visit is not an interview. It’s an information session where the purpose is to learn more about a college, not to evaluate attendees for admission."

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Literary Philadelphia – A Collective Exploration

Spring 2026

Philadelphia is a vibrant literary city - and one without a single, monolithic literary center of gravity. In this class, taught by novelist, poet, and Swarthmore Visiting Assistant ůůֱ²¥ of Creative Writing, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, students will have a chance to get to know, and contribute to, Philadelphia's vibrant literary culture.

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Architecture and Urbanism of Philadelphia

Spring 2026

This course will proceed from two basic assumptions: that the built environment, as a cultural product, is a rich archival record; and that architecture and urbanism are not born complete but made by people through discussion, debate, contingency, use, and reuse.

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Tri-Co Philly: A Sociological Journey to Immigrant Communities in Contemporary Greater Philadelphia

Spring 2026

This course will use the lenses of sociology to critically and comparatively examine various immigrant communities that historically, economically, politically, and socially have shaped the city of Philadelphia.

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