"I’ve taught public key cryptography as an upper-level elective, but I’m excited to learn alongside first-year students. I would rather assist beginning students to explore what they want to learn rather than teach them what I know and think is important. There are some natural questions to ask, of course, but it will be really fun to explore questions students ask that I haven’t anticipated." — Professor of Mathematics Lynne Butler

Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience .

Then & Now: Music

The Bi-Co orchestra will see its performance and rehearsal spaces upgraded thanks to the Lives That Speak campaign, which is investing in enhancements and additions to Roberts Hall, including a custom-built orchestra shell to improve acoustics in the auditorium, and a new rehearsal/recital hall facing the Duck Pond.

Missed yesterday’s photo? See the Orchestra back “Then“.

Then & Now: Music

Haverford’s first orchestra was founded in 1895, and joined forces with Bryn Mawr in 1940. Under William Heartt Reese’s sustained guidance the orchestra grew in numbers and skill, and in 1963 and 1964 it undertook its most ambitious concert repertoire to date, including pieces by Bartók, Fauré, and Shostakovich.

Come back tomorrow to see Music at Haverford “Now”.

Tuttle Creative Residencies encourage faculty from across the three divisions—natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities—to design and implement arts residencies in conjunction with their curricular and scholarly agendas.

"Reading Comics and Religion," which explores how representations of religion arise in comics and graphic novels, is co-taught by religion professors Ken Koltun-Fromm (Haverford) and Yvonne Chireau (Swarthmore), and features a weekly “making” lab with artist-in-residence JT Waldman.

Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.

Brook Henkel '05 teaches a "Science in Fiction" seminar in the Bi-Co German department. Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.

Then & Now: Music

The  Bi-Co orchestra will see its performance and rehearsal spaces upgraded thanks to the Lives That Speak campaign, which is investing in enhancements and additions to Roberts Hall, including a custom-built orchestra shell to improve acoustics in the auditorium, and a new rehearsal/recital hall facing the Duck Pond.

Missed yesterday’s photo? See the Orchestra back “Then“.

Then & Now: Music

Haverford’s first orchestra was founded in 1895, and in 1940, with its numbers dwindling, the group joined forces with Bryn Mawr. Under William Heartt Reese’s sustained guidance the orchestra grew in numbers and skill, and in 1963 and 1964 it undertook its most ambitious concert repertoire to date, including pieces by Bartók, Fauré, and Shostakovich.

Come back tomorrow to see the Music at Haverford “Now”.

History is essential to a free and enlightened citizenry and forms a cornerstone of the liberal arts education at Haverford College. Our varied curriculum encourages students to analyze and interpret the past from many different perspectives and to recognize their own role in writing “history.” 

Tuttle Creative Residencies encourage faculty from across the three divisions—natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities—to design and implement arts residencies in conjunction with their curricular and scholarly agendas.