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Badminton Club

Badminton Club offers an easy entry point for students looking to learn everyone’s favorite feathered-projectile racket sport. From seasoned players seeking to hone their competitive edge to newcomers taking a first stab at the backyard sport, the club has a spot on the court for anyone.

Club Life at Haverford is a blog series exploring student-run extracurricular activities.

COOL CLASSES: “Modality and Language: Mandarin and ASL as Examples”

Co-taught by C.V. Starr Professor of Asian Studies and Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics Shizhe Huang and Swarthmore College Professor of Linguistics and Social Justice Donna Jo Napoli, this course explores five issues in which modality effects might be evidenced in Mandarin and American Sign Language. The class is experimental, with the professors and students forming and testing hypotheses against data.

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

The Maker Arts Space in VCAM houses an array of high-tech devices, such as a 3D printer, a laser cutter, and a 3D scanner, as well as lots of design software.

A Survey of Recent Acquisitions of Photographs from 2017-2019

Through December 8, 2019
Atrium Gallery, Jane Lutnick Fine Arts Center

This new exhibit presents 40 recent acquisitions that illustrate the story of the photographic artform from landscapes and portraits to travel, photojournalism, and conceptual works. Details »

Our campus has 200 acres of award-winning architecture and landscaping; more than 50 academic, athletic, and residential buildings; and a nationally recognized arboretum with 400 species of trees and shrubs, a 3.5-acre duck pond, gardens, and wooded areas.

COOL CLASSES: “Global Change Biology”

Taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Jamie Becker, this biology course for non-majors explores how human activities impact Earth’s climate and, in turn, all living things on the planet.

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

The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) encourages and supports creative and strategic thinking around a problem, a need, a question, or simply an interest. The goal is to find new solutions and opportunities for entrepreneurial projects and paths of learning.

An expert on Greek comedy, Assistant Professor of classics Matthew Farmer has taught elementary and intermediate Latin, and last year introduced the course “Sex and Power in the Ancient World.”

Read Office Hour in the Spring/Summer 2019 issue of Haverford Magazine.

COOL CLASSES: “Public Policy Analysis”

Taught by Associate Professor of Political Science Zachary Oberfield, this course helps students develop a deeper understanding of how public policy is made while introducing students to policy analysis—the art and science of providing problem-solving advice.

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

Iconic

Iconic is Haverford’s Step team, founded in 2018 and led by Raveen Green ’22 and Davion Williams ’22. Stepping uses the body as an instrument, and incorporates stomping, clapping, and spoken word to create a beat.

Club Life at Haverford is a blog series exploring student-run extracurricular activities.