A complement to the current faculty seminar, “Attending the Dead,” this comparative literature course explores medieval laments and elegies alongside primary sources that contextualize the role of lament and lamenters in their societies.
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This writing seminar explores the history of the city, in order to trace how its founding principles have manifested in the lived experiences of its residents over many generations.
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This course, one of Haverford’s first-year writing seminars, reads both literature and social science texts focused on issues around immigration.
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This political economy course explores the evolution of international governance regimes for global finance and global trade and delves into financial crises, including the 2008 world financial crisis and its aftereffects.
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A Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Program course on literary works that take political positions.
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This signature biology course, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, brings together professors from differing research areas to team teach a stand-alone laboratory course dedicated to solving real-world problems.
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This history course explores how museums shape our understanding of the natural world and our knowledge about the past and includes several field trips to Philadelphia museums.
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A course for students seeking careers in social justice work to prepare them to translate their principles into practice in a complex world.
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This course, which explores how representations of religion arise in comics and graphic novels. is co-taught by Haverford and Swarthmore religion professors and features a weekly “making” lab with artist-in-residence JT Waldman.
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A fine arts course in which students use a high-tech method to create images, and use a low-tech method to print them.
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This psychology course examins the links between the natural environment and people’s behavior using lenses of cognitive, social, and personality psychology, with a focus on conservation behavior and environmentalism.
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A seminar, taught by a visiting professor and alum, on the interrelations between literature and the history of science.
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What better way to learn about Congress than from one of its own members?
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This health studies course, inspired by interested students, features a semester-long project in partnership with the Center for Creative Works, a studio and teaching space for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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This class frames contemporary African American literature as a response to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and includes study of writers from Amiri Baraka and Audra Lordre to Ta-Nehisi Coates and even rapper Kendrick Lamar.