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"Art and the Environment in East Asia"

This course—which is cross-listed in East Asian languages and cultures, environmental studies, and visual studies—is taught by Assistant Professor Erin Schoneveld and examines the relationship between environment and the arts in China and Japan—particularly how artists engage with and respond to nature through varied modes of artistic production and exhibition.

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

Considered pioneering when it was created, a history class called “Seminar on Historical Evidence” was unparalleled in exposing majors to hands-on work in historical research. This approach has since been incorporated into the senior thesis process.

Through December 10, 2017
Atrium Gallery, Marshall Fine Art Center

Featuring colorful cotton quilts and meticulous needlepoint canvases, Keeping in Touch: Shannon Murphy and Kathryn Bennett is a collaborative showing of works by Shannon Murphy BMC '14, Fine Art Department Assistant and her paternal great-grandmother Kathryn Bennett. Details »

From Ultimate to ice hockey, badminton to rugby, Haverford student-athletes find some serious fun playing all kinds of non-varsity sports.

"Theories of the Remix"

This English course taught by Assistant Professor Lindsay Reckson introduces students to the study of literature through the art of borrowing, sampling, recycling, and remixing.

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

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.

The Haverford Innovations Program (HIP) encourages and supports creative and strategic thinking around a problem, a need, a question, or simply an interest. The goal is to find new solutions and opportunities for entrepreneurial projects and paths of learning.

Grace Thiele's senior thesis research for her chemistry major contributed to a paper she co-authored with her advisor and other Fords that was recently published in the American Chemical Society journal Biochemistry.

Reclaiming the Past at East End and Evergreen Cemeteries, Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia

Through December 15, 2017
Magill Library, Sharpless Gallery

The photographs in this exhibit by Brian Palmer and Erin Hollaway Palmer document the labor that uncovered more than 3,000 headstones at two historic African American cemeteries in Virginia that had effectively been abandoned for years. Details »

“The Anthropology of Architecture”

This anthropology course surveys approaches to architecture, with a particular interest in how architecture expresses senses of place.

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