Stories

Mysteries of Peru and Machu Picchu
August 13-21, 2025

Making the Most of Your College Experience
"College is naturally a place where you will find community, especially at a place like ůůֱ²¥."

Transforming 'Inside ůůֱ²¥'
Explore the website content review project, led by the Web & Digital Strategy team.

Discover Denali National Park
July 13-18, 2025

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.

Mawr Insight: The College Essay
"At the end of the day, college applications are a wonderful opportunity for self-reflection."

ůůֱ²¥ 101: Career and Civic Engagement
"We’re excited to welcome you to ůůֱ²¥ and begin our work together!"

Mawr Insight: Campus Tours
"A campus tour allows for your future to be as close as the ground beneath your feet."

Mawr Insight: What is a School Visit?
"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."

Literary Philadelphia – A Collective Exploration
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.

Architecture and Urbanism of Philadelphia
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.

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