This music course examines musical change over a thousand-year span, uncovering how—and why—Western music evolved from a monastic ritual of plain, unaccompanied song into a secular entertainment for elite audiences in modern cities.
Haverford Headlines
A collection of video messages from—and conversations with—Haverford College President Wendy Raymond and faculty during this semester of remote learning and social distancing, as well as conversations with alumni fighting the disease on the frontlines.
On Friday, March 20, the College announced new operational changes that affect the remainder of the spring semester, including Commencement and Alumni Weekend.
Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.
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File under:This semester the Quaker Affairs Office is welcoming Paula Palmer, an activist and a long-standing advocate for the rights of Indigenous peoples, to campus as this semester’s Friend in Residence.
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A new club on campus encourages Fords to face their fears among friends.
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File under:Members of the community celebrated the changing season at the Arboretum’s Fall Festival, which included a Nature Trail night hike lit by handmade jack-o’-lanterns.
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File under:This sociology course engages in debates about families as economic units, women’s bodies as social factories, gay identity’s relationship to labor and consumption, the “pricing” of unpaid care, and sex work and trafficking.
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The new Gladstone Lee Mohan Collection consists of dozens of philosophical texts by underrepresented authors and is named after an alum and two current students.
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File under:This visual studies course introduces students to critical design and creative practices that address technologies that are worn on the body, that digitize the body, and that extend the body.
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File under:Get ready for fall happenings on campus and beyond Haverford.
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The award connects the College’s Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, artist collective Slavs and Tatars, and Philadelphia nonprofits Twelve Gates Arts and the Council on American Islamic Relations for two years of planned artistic collaborations inspired by a 14th-century allegorical Uighur text.
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File under:The Class of 2017 graduate made a documentary that tells the story of the problems facing Native Alaskan communities.
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File under:This political science course helps students develop a deeper understand of how public policy is made.
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File under:This philosophy course is an introduction to the history of our conception of ourselves as rational beings in the world through a close reading of Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant.
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File under:Alumni-sponsored externships offer students a glimpse of the professional world beyond college.
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File under:The winning project, Salud y Dinero, created by a team of five Fords, aims to create an engaging way for kids to become financially literate.
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File under:This environmental studies class, which is part of a Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives project this semester, broadly examines how the environment is impacted by the textile industry.
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