COOL CLASSES: “Beauty Problems: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Philosophy”
This visual studies course examines a series of problems that beauty and other sensuous pleasures make for philosophy, film, and contemporary art.
What They Learned: Jonathan Sudo ’21
The history and East Asian languages and cultures double major analyzed the dynamics of Japan as an imperial power in the interwar period.
What They Learned: Claire Nicholas ’21
The English major’s thesis investigates what makes Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric” such a formative reading experience and temporally distinctive work of poetry.
What They Learned: Laurel Benjamin ’21
For her thesis, the psychology and Spanish double major compared how individuals in the U.S., Japan, and Mexico experienced loneliness and distress during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What They Learned: Jan David Estrada Pabón ’21
The chemistry major’s thesis outputs a set of conditions that are necessary to form a perovskite crystal.
What They Learned: Corinne Williams ’21
The mathematics and biology double major built tools to explore the effects of starvation on bacteria and infection.
What They Learned: Johnluca Fenton ’21
The political science and environmental studies double major combined his interests in his thesis research on the Sunrise Movement.
Cool Classes
The Club Life @ Haverford
A series exploring the many varied student clubs on campus.
What They Learned
A series exploring the thesis work of recent graduates.
Where They’re Headed
A blog series detailing the post-Haverford plans of our recent graduates.