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COOL CLASSES: “Electronic Music Evolution: From Foundational Basics to Sonic Horizons”
Electronic music is an ever-changing genre. This course covers its history and theory while offering students opportunities to use cutting-edge production tools and technologies.
Club Life: Fiber Arts Club
The Fiber Arts Club offers resources and materials for artists seeking to develop their skills.
COOL CLASSES: “University City: Race, Power and Politics in Philadelphia”
This course focuses on the role Philadelphia’s colleges and universities — and their affiliated healthcare entities — play in organizing the region’s economy.
Pinwheel Day Heralds Spring’s Arrival
Colorful pinwheels spinning in the morning light April 9 marked the return of a beloved annual tradition.
Student Body Convenes for Spring 2024 Plenary
Haverford’s student body met to discuss and tackle pressing campus issues.
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What They Learned
A series exploring the thesis work of recent graduates. View More
What They Learned: Madeline Guth ’19
Political science major and statistics, Chinese, and health studies minor Madeline Guth ’19 used her diverse set of tools to study the many ways that public policy can impact unintended pregnancy rates among low-income women.
What They Learned: Chris Goings ’19
For his thesis, Chris Goings ’19 pulled research and advice from a wide range of sources, materializing years of classroom experience.
What They Learned: Olivia Legaspi ’19
For her thesis, the English major wrote two linked short stories, centered on themes of mental illness and coping.
What They Learned: Marley Asplundh ’19
The linguistics major spent time in a Philadelphia classroom to research the relationship between linguistic discrimination and education for her thesis.
What They Learned: Rebecca Chang ’19
Personal experience and a semester abroad in Peru informed the growth and structure of cities major’s thesis.
What They Learned: Alexandra Corcoran ’19
The political science and Spanish double major built her thesis upon two summers’ worth of experience studying Medicaid policy and reform with the Georgetown Center for Children and Families.
Where They’re Headed
A blog series detailing the post-Haverford plans of our recent graduates. View More
Where They’re Headed: Kofi Kwakwa ’19
The international studies major is interning at KiCK Global, a Barcelona-based marketing agency, prior to pursuing a similar position back in the U.S.
Where They’re Headed: Heather Robinson ’19
The psychology major and dance minor is splitting her time between her two respective passions at a Harvard Lab and a Cambridge ballet studio.
Where They’re Headed: Nico Kaplan ’19
Political science major and Spanish minor Nico Kaplan ’19 is exploring the relationship between political and cultural projects by working with documentary distribution company Argot Pictures to reach Spanish-speaking audiences and organizations that stand committed to supporting immigrant communities in NYC.
Where They’re Headed: Tai Nguyen ’19
The economics major will be joining IBM at their Burlington, VT., location as a data scientist.
Where They’re Headed: Hanae Togami ’19
The Haverford House Fellow is supporting immigrant families at the nonprofit HIAS PA.
Where They’re Headed: Nick Perez ’19
The economics major and baseball player is preparing for a career in the front offices of the major leagues.
Cool Classes
A series highlighting interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience. View More
COOL CLASSES: “The ‘Rise’ of the Novel”
This English course introduces students to the early English novel, as well as to the tradition of scholarship that seeks to explain its origins.
COOL CLASSES: “A Musical Millennium: From Convent to Concert Hall”
This music course examines musical change over a thousand-year span, uncovering how—and why—Western music evolved from a monastic ritual of plain, unaccompanied song into a secular entertainment for elite audiences in modern cities.
COOL CLASSES: “Sex Under Capitalism: Intimate Relations Between Economy and Society”
This sociology course engages in debates about families as economic units, women’s bodies as social factories, gay identity’s relationship to labor and consumption, the “pricing” of unpaid care, and sex work and trafficking.
COOL CLASSES: “Body Media: Wearable Technology and Digital Bodies”
This visual studies course introduces students to critical design and creative practices that address technologies that are worn on the body, that digitize the body, and that extend the body.
COOL CLASSES: “Public Policy Analysis”
This political science course helps students develop a deeper understand of how public policy is made.
COOL CLASSES: “Mind and World”
This philosophy course is an introduction to the history of our conception of ourselves as rational beings in the world through a close reading of Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant.
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