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  • COOL CLASSES: “European History: Nationalism and Migration”

    A history class on the theory and practice of nationalism uses “history as an indispensable tool for understanding the present.”

  • COOL CLASSES: “Human Rights and the Dead”

    This course explores the material presence of dead bodies as reminders of the effects of violence, objects of mourning, and problems for those who seek to move forward into a new, post-conflict future. It focuses especially on forensic science as a tool for clarifying the fate of victims, prosecuting perpetrators, and identifying remains on behalf of loved ones.

  • The Music and The Message

    Associate Professor of Philosophy Jerry Miller and former Haverford philosopher Richard Bernstein discussed the philosophical underpinnings of scapegoating and structural violence prior to the Haverford-Bryn Mawr Chorale and Chorale Orchestra’s performance of Michael Tippett’s 1942 oratorio “A Child of Our Time.”

  • COOL CLASSES: “Place, People, and Collaborative Research in the Urban Environment”

    This transdisciplinary course focuses on the ethics and practice of community collaboration and community-based research in environmental work in urban settings and requires its students to spend significant time working with a community group in Philadelphia.

  • COOL CLASSES: “Women’s Work”

    This first-year writing seminar explores the literary history of women’s work and women workers by analyzing poems, fiction, comic books, academic texts, and even Beyoncé videos.

  • COOL CLASSES: “Introduction to Health Statistics”

    The Health Studies Program offers this introduction to statistical reasoning and application specifically for students interested in the health professions.

  • COOL CLASSES: “Quaker Social Witness”

    This seminar examines the commitment to social justice within the Religious Society of Friends and highlights its historical and current manifestations.

  • COOL CLASSES: “Perspectives in Biology: Human Genetic Diversity”

    A biology course examining issues of human origins and migrations, diversity, and the relationship between different populations and ethnic groups.

  • COOL CLASSES: “John Brown’s Body”

    This English course uses the spectacular life and death of John Brown to examine issues, such as the place of violence in the cause of liberty and the roles of race and gender in the construction of emancipatory rhetoric, in a diverse set of texts produced across two centuries.

  • COOL CLASSES: “The Biology Behind Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine”

    This health studies course explores the biological basis for, discoveries behind, and dissemination of medical advances that profoundly influence the quality of life, including antibiotics, anesthetics, HAART therapy, immunotherapy, stem cells and gene editing.

  • COOL CLASSES: “The Contest Over Quality: The Ethics and Politics of Craft and Design”

    This political science course explores the central question: What balance should we as individuals strike between craft, design, and marketing, given that the world economy is increasingly elevating design and marketing over craft, while all have undoubted values?

  • Out of the Classroom, Into the Tropics

    Thanks to a new partnership between the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center, students from Jonathan Wilson's "Economic Botany" class spent spring break in Trinidad and Tobago on an experiential-learning study tour.

  • A Taste of Italy Through Art

    Professors Ying Li and Curt Cacioppo welcomed the Venice Quartet to Magill Library for a showcase of Italian-inspired paintings and string pieces.

  • Cross-Campus Linguistic Collaboration

    A recent open classroom event, exploring “the everyday language of racism,” brought together Swarthmore and Haverford classes and showcased the strength of the first Tri-College department.

  • Winter 2017 Faculty Update

    Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications. 

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