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Student and faculty research and innovation are helping to make classrooms more accommodating to those with a variety of disabilities and learning styles.

Read "Education and Accessibility" in the Fall 2016 issue of Haverford magazine.

“Women in War and Peace”

"If we cannot see women, in a variety of roles, as political actors, or the political world as a gendered space, then we are missing an essential aspect to the study of politics. If we are unaware of the double standard to which women in politics are held then it is even harder to make informed decisions about politics."— Associate Professor of Political Science Susanna Wing

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

"This class considers the way food practices and the discourses that surround them can unite families, consolidate ethnic identity, reinforce class boundaries, and even express gender." — Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Writing Fellow Elizabeth Blake

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

Haverford's East Asian Languages and Cultures program engages students in a broad and deep exploration of culture and society in East Asia, particularly China and Japan. Majors undertake rigorous language training and comprehensive study of the region’s culture and society. 

Haverford’s Physics major and minor bring together students and faculty interested in investigating the physical principles that animate the natural world. Our rigorous programs provide significant opportunities for first-hand experimental and theoretical investigations and a solid foundation in the basic principles of the discipline.

"Thinking About Music"

"The class examines the big questions that swirl around music and musical creativity, and it tries to examine how musicians and musical thinkers have tried to answer them over the ages." — John C. Whitehead '43 Professor of Humanities and Associate Provost Richard Freedman

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

Case Studies in Environmental Issues: Concepts, Contexts, and Conundrums

"The study of the environment is larger than any one class—or faculty member’s expertise—so we’ve designed the course to study a small number of case studies each year from the perspective of two faculty members in different disciplines: ideally, a scientist and someone from the social sciences, humanities, or arts." — Assistant Professor of Biology Jonathan Wilson

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

Introduction to Visual Studies

"I wanted to create a space of real interdisciplinarity. Many fields—including history, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies—address the visual. Bringing them together can help us map out a picture of the world that is truly nuanced and complex—one that centers critical questions rather than answers." — Assistant Professor of Visual Studies Christina Knight

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

"Thinking About Music"

"The class examines the big questions that swirl around music and musical creativity, and it tries to examine how musicians and musical thinkers have tried to answer them over the ages." — John C. Whitehead '43 Professor of Humanities and Associate Provost Richard Freedman

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

"Site-Work: Place-making and Performance Practice", an English course taught by Jaclyn Pryor, considers the way in which site work functions as a form of activist art.

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