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“Computer Security: Attacks and Defenses”

Taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science Kristopher Micinski, this course offers a broad introduction to the field of computer security from two concurrent perspectives: attacks on systems and defenses against those attacks.

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

Taught by Professor of German and Comparative Literature Ulrich Schönherr, the seminar examines the diverse artistic responses to a rapidly evolving media environment, oscillating between technophilia and technophobia. 

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"Inequality and Public Policy"

Taught by Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Matthew Incantalupo, this interdisciplinary course explores the relationship between policy and economic outcomes— in order to understand “who gets what”— in the United States.

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Haverford’s biochemistry program is located at the interface between the biological, chemical, and physical sciences. For our ambitious students and faculty who seek to understand biological processes from physical and chemical points of view, this is an especially exciting place to be.

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.

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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.

"Stress and Coping"

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

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Haverford’s biochemistry program is located at the interface between the biological, chemical, and physical sciences. For our ambitious students and faculty who seek to understand biological processes from physical and chemical points of view, this is an especially exciting place to be.

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

This Health Studies course is sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and allows students returning from summer internships to reflect critically on their experiences through the lens of theory.

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Many Haverford students have co-authored papers in scientific journals, but rarely can they credit their humanities studies for the feat. But George O'Hara '18 can. The Russian and chemistry double major is a co-author of a recent PLOS Medicine paper on the HIV epidemic in the Russian Federation, for which his Russian language fluency was a key component.