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  • Collaging the Power of Sound

    Susan Howe, winner of the 2017 Robert Frost Award for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry, gave an on-campus reading.

  • COOL CLASSES: “Computer Security: Attacks and Defenses”

    This course offers a broad introduction to the field of computer security from two concurrent perspectives: attacks on systems and defenses against those attacks.

  • COOL CLASSES: “From The Gutenberg-Galaxy To Cyberspace: Literature, Film, And New Media”

    This comparative literature seminar examines diverse artistic responses (from Bertolt Brecht to Spike Jonze) to a rapidly evolving media environment that oscillate between technophilia and technophobia.

  • COOL CLASSES: “Inequality and Public Policy”

    This interdisciplinary course, which is cross-listed in economics and political science, explores the relationship between policy and economic outcomes— to understand “who gets what”— in the United States.

  • Zachary Oberfield in class

    Zachary Oberfield's New Book Tackles Charter School Debate

    The associate professor of political science talks about the book, which The Washington Post said should be required reading.  

  • Campus as a Canvas

    The 12 Bi-Co students in Naomi Safran-Hon’s “Sculpture: Materials and Techniques” class were asked to construct site-specific installations across campus—from the library to the Nature Trail to the KINSC Rotunda—for their final projects this fall.

  • COOL CLASSES: “Oral History and Activism”

    This Peace, Justice, and Human Rights course explores the ethics, politics, and practice of oral history as an activist research methodology, and is focused on the theory, practice, and ethics of documenting oral histories.

  • COOL CLASSES: “Stress and Coping”

    This psychology seminar examines the theory and research of stress and coping processes and their links with disease and mental health, and includes an experiential learning component in which students learn stress-management techniques.

  • Science Made Visual

    This semester the Biology Department launched its first film series to “spark a conversation about biological themes and how students can get involved in research early during their time at Haverford.”

  • COOL CLASSES: “The End of the World as We Know It”

    This class in the Department of Religion on early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature explores the social functions of apocalyptic and ask why this form has been so persistent and influential.

  • Members of the Biochemistry Superlab course with their professors

    The Class That Publishes Together

    A "Biochemistry Superlab" course co-taught by Professor Rob Fairman and Assistant Professor Lou Charkoudian recently published a peer-reviewed paper in PLOS Biology detailing not only the results of in-class research, but also how the class itself was designed to facilitate such research. 

  • COOL CLASSES: “Bodies of Injustice: Health, Illness, and Healing in Contexts of Inequality”

    For students returning from internship experiences who wish to deepen their understanding of social justice and healthcare, this course integrates experiential learning with readings on cultural conceptions of health, structural determinants of health, and addressing health inequalities in the United States and other countries.

  • Fall 2017 Faculty Updates

    Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.

  • A “PACC’d” Calendar

    A new program out of the VCAM building facilitates classroom connections to Philadelphia and local artists.

  • COOL CLASSES: “Artists Under Policing Gaze of the State: Politics, History, and Performance”

    This course, which is crosslisted in both comparative literature and peace, justice, and human rights, investigates what permanent surveillance meant and means historically and today for society at large and for individual artists living under its pressure.

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