COOL CLASSES: “Measuring Education”
This sociology course explores contemporary political movements to measure learning outcomes in educational institutions and covers such topics as standardized testing for college admissions and development of online learning tools, among others.
CLUB LIFE: Mayuri Mix’ n’ Match Moves
The Tri-Co dance troupe fuses classical Indian dance with folk, ballet, hip-hop, and jazz styles.
COOL CLASSES: “Relief Printmaking”
This fine arts course covers techniques and approaches to the art of the woodcut and the linocut, emphasizing the study of design principles and the expressive potential of the medium to create a personal visual statement.
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Invites Students to Score the Stacks
The newest installation in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is an interactive, campus-wide experience that reimagines traditional conceptions of thinking about institutional spaces.
CLUB LIFE: Badminton Club Keeps Up A Volley
Badminton Club offers an easy entry point for students looking to learn everyone’s favorite feathered-projectile racket sport.
New Photography Exhibit Unveiled
The exhibit in the Jane Lutnick Fine Arts Center features a selection of photographs recently acquired by the Haverford College Photo Collection.
COOL CLASSES: “The Sense and Senses of Islam”
This religion course introduces students to debates about the senses in Islam, including exploring the relationship between sound and the sacred.
COOL CLASSES: “Modality and Language: Mandarin and ASL as Examples”
This co-taught linguistics course, which explores five issues in which modality effects might be evidenced in Mandarin and American Sign Language, is experimental, as the professors and students form and test hypotheses against data together.
How Can a Business Drive Positive Social Change?
Computer science major Isabella Muno ’21, who recently attended the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Detroit to explore possibilities for her own campus-created startup, writes about what she learned there.
COOL CLASSES: “Global Change Biology”
This biology course for non-majors explores how human activities impact Earth’s climate and, in turn, all living things on the planet.
Impact Challenge Partners with Puentes de Salud
Sponsored by Haverford Innovations Program and Swarthmore’s Center for Innovation and Leadership, a daylong workshop led by Alexandra Wolkoff ’14 from Puentes de Salud gave participants direction on how to support Latinx immigrant communities in Philadelphia.
Spilling the Beans on the Microfinance and Impact Investing Initiative
The Fall 2018 iteration of the “Impact Investing” course chose to support Vega Coffee, a direct-trade venture whose products are now available in the Coop and new Library Cafe.
COOL CLASSES: “The ‘Rise’ of the Novel”
This English course introduces students to the early English novel, as well as to the tradition of scholarship that seeks to explain its origins.
CLUB LIFE: Iconic Dance Team Steps into the Spotlight
Founded in 2018, Haverford’s Step team isn’t afraid to be heard.
COOL CLASSES: “A Musical Millennium: From Convent to Concert Hall”
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.
CLUB LIFE: Horror Council’s Spooky Screenings
A new club on campus encourages Fords to face their fears among friends.
Arboretum Hosts A Fall Fling
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.
COOL CLASSES: “Sex Under Capitalism: Intimate Relations Between Economy and Society”
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.