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Haverford’s Visual Culture, Arts, and Media (VCAM) facility houses the College’s Interdisciplinary Minor in Visual Studies, the Haverford Innovations Program, and the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities.
Students use a 3D scanner during a workshop in the Maker Arts space. Photo: Dex Coen Gilbert '21.
The club, founded in 2017 by Shivani Parikh '20, connects contemporary and ballet dancers across the Bi-Co for rigorous technique classes and rehearsals.
Members of the club performed at the Spring Student Dance Concert in Marshall Auditorium. Photo: Soha Saghir '21
Taught by Professor of Religion Kenneth Koltun-Fromm and Assistant Professor of Religion Molly Farneth, this course explores the role of food in religious beliefs and practices, including the role of food in religious rituals, the connection between religious foodways and religious identities, and the ethics of food production and consumption.
Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.
The class participated in a “Cool Food” workshop, which included sampling foods while having one or more senses taken away. See what other courses the Department of Religion is offering this semester. Photo: Abigail Harrison '19.
May 4, 2018—May 19, 2018
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
The Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition will represent the culmination of studies at Haverford College for the nine seniors graduating in 2018. Details »
The nine exhibited fine arts majors are (in back, from left): Katherine Anjali Singh BMC (painting), Seneca Sayre Shetty BMC (painting), Georgina Renée Johnson BMC (sculpture and printmaking), Hou Wang BMC (drawing), Julia Castner BMC (painting) and Christopher Bechen (printmaking); center: Taarika Mariwala BMC (printmaking); front: Alina van Ryzin BMC (photography) and Harper Olmon BMC (drawing).
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.
Following the College's first-ever comprehensive tree assessment, a massive renewal project aimed at preserving Haverford's beloved natural resources for generations to come—while keeping the community safe—is taking shape. Photo: Rae Yuan '19.
“I never understood what a 'life-changing' experience was until I went to Rome. I walked in with eyes half-lidded and walked out with a new respect for the beauty of the world and its infinite complexities.” – Zakery Oglesby '17
Each year more than 130 Haverford students take advantage of the opportunity to study abroad.
The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship grew out of faculty and student interests that emerged in the late 1990s. Since then, the Center has developed and expanded into a flourishing nexus of social responsibility, civic engagement, and global peace work, both on campus and in the greater community.
The CPGC’s first Seeking Global Citizenship Symposium brought a host of visitors to campus to pose questions about ethical partnership, activism, and inquiry. Photo: Soha Saghir '21
Taught by Associate Professor of Computer Science John Dougherty, this course, which covers the design, evaluation, and implementation of interactive computing systems, explores how design decisions can impact access to computing and technology.
Our Cool Classes blog series highlights interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience.
A student uses peripherals to interface with a computer. See what other courses the Department of Computer Science is offering this semester. Photo: Holden Blanco ’17
Haverford has more than 100 student groups that publish magazines, host symposia, sing a cappella, discuss religion and spirituality, stay politically active, maintain a system of student self-government, dance, demonstrate, and create.
Archery Club, founded in the fall by two sophomores, gives any interested students a weekly chance to better their bow-and-arrow skills. Photo: Dex Coen Gilbert '21.
Closes April 27, 2018
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Resisting the historical definition of melancholy as an affliction that creates disorder or inactivity, this exhibition reimagines passive sadness as powerful refusal, a conscious (or unconscious) “standing aside,” a willful production of generative failures and resistant potencies. Details »
Noa Giniger, The Sorrow the Joy Brings, collage from steel engraving (Napoleons Grab, 1838), 2012. 16.5 x 21 cm. (publication detail). Courtesy of the artist.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.