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Haverford students seeking to expand their linguistic palette can often be found in the Language Learning Center, a computer lab equipped with various software and hardware to facilitate the study of foreign languages. Computers have spelling and grammar checking programs in a variety of languages and are capable of producing text in both western and non-western alphabets. Satellite television is available in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, and there’s a library of foreign language films, so you can learn to understand what they're saying in all those Oscar-nominated movies.

Academic Centers & Other Facilities

Our cross-disciplinary academic centers are the physical and intellectual hubs of scholarly study on campus. From art exhibits at the John B. Hurford Humanities Center, to summer internships with the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, to cutting-edge research opportunities at the Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, students and faculty make connections across different academic disciplines and explore new, exciting possibilities.

KINSC Poster presentation

Students from Professor Iruka Okeke's Biology 124 course are presenting their work in the KINSC Link. Our news team visited the opening reception to learn about the students' study of infectious disease scientists working in developing countries. (5:42)

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Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center (KINSC)

The Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center (KINSC) is a platform for curricular and scholarly discussions among the departments and students of biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, and psychology. The KINSC is equipped with superb computer and research laboratories, workspaces, seminar rooms, and classrooms, and promotes research in a range of interdisciplinary and rapidly emerging fields, such as biochemistry, neurobiology, materials science, nanoscience, and bioinformatics.

John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center

The John B. Hurford ’60 Humanities Center enhances social, intellectual, and cultural life on the Haverford campus by fostering challenging exchanges among faculty, students, and diverse communities of literary, linguistic, and artistic practitioners, performers, scholars, and critics. The Center sponsors programs that promote a deeper relationship between classic humanistic study and contemporary intellectual artistic and ethical currents in the wider public world.

Center for Peace and Global Citizenship

The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship extends Haverford’s long-standing commitment to social justices by helping to create a more just and peaceful world through research, education, and action. The Center encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and curricular innovation at Haverford and supports connections with social change organizations around the world.

Other Centers & Facilities

Haverford’s James P. Magill Library is linked to the library systems of Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore through a computerized catalog system bringing students access to nearly two million volumes. The Language Learning Center, Academic Computing Center, Writing Center and Office of Academic Resources all provide students with access to a wide range of information and services to guide them in their studies.