You are welcome to explore and use materials for educational purposes from this interdisciplinary course archive. Although they are categorized below by a primary academic discipline, they all share an interdisciplinary spirit, and you will find a mixing of humanities, social sciences and sciences throughout each of these courses that were taught at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.
Jump to: 360 | Athletics | Biology | Chemistry | College Seminar | Computer Science | Disability Studies | E-Seminar Liberal Arts | Economics | Education | English | Environmental Studies | Gender and Sexuality Studies | General Studies | Philosophy | Political Science | Psychology | Social Work
"360" - 3 Courses Taught Contemporaneously
Arts of Resistance
A cluster of three courses in a 360° about the constraints and agency of individual actors in social spaces, with a particular focus on the institutional settings of colleges and prisons and the “critical spaces” that can open up within them.
- Education 290: Learning in Institutional Spaces
- English 228: The Rhetorics of Silence
- Political Science 291: Arts of Freedom
Eco-Literacy 360
This Eco-Literacy 360° cluster considers our participation in the environment from the perspectives of economics, education, and various forms of literary and visual expression.
- Economics 136: Working with Economic Data: Valuing the Environment
- Education 285: Ecologies of Minds and Communities
- English 216:Re-creating Our World: Vision, Voice, Value
Identity Matters 360: Being, Belonging, Becoming
This cluster of courses, which have been co-designed by professors with shared interests in disability studies, gender studies, human development, literature, social work, visual studies and writing, considers how multiple systems of identity, as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson says, “intertwine, redefine, and mutually constitute one another.”
- English 293: Critical Feminist Studies
- Health/Independent College Programs 207: Disability, Identity, Culture
- Social Work 556: Adult Development and Aging
Women in Walled Communities 360: Silence, Voice, Vision
A cluster of three courses in a 360° that focuses on the constraints and agency of individual actors in the institutional settings of women's colleges and prisons.
- Education 290: Learning in Institutional Spaces
- English 228: The Rhetorics of Silence
- General Studies 223: Acting in Prison: Vision as Resource for Change
Athletics
Women, Sport and Film: a series that explores the role of women and sport as seen through documentaries and popular film.
- Women, Sport and Film, Fall 2005
- Women, Sport and Film, Spring 2005
- Women, Sport and Film, Fall 2004
- Women, Sport and Film, Spring 2004
- Women, Sport and Film, 2003
- Women, Sport and Film, 2002
Biology
Biology 103: a one-semester introductory biology course.
- Biology 103, 2009
- Biology 103, 2007
- Biology 103, 2006
- Biology 103, 2005
- Biology 103, 2003
- Biology 103, 2002
- Biology 103, 2001
- Biology 103, 2000
- Biology 103, 1998
- Biology 103, 1997
Biology 202: an introduction to the prospects and problems of trying to understand behavior in terms of nervous system function
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2010
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2009
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2008
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2007
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2006
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2005
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2004
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2003
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2002
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2001
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 2000
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 1999
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 1998
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 1997
- Biology 202: Neurobiology and Behavior, 1996
Biology 223: The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity
This course experiments with two interrelated and reciprocal inquiries: whether the biological concept of evolution is a useful one in understanding the phenomena of literature (in particular: the generation of new stories), and whether literature contributes to a deeper understanding of evolution. Also see English 223.
- Biology 223: The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories, 2011
- Biology 223: The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2009
- Biology 223: The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2007
- Biology 223: The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2005
- Biology 223: The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2004 -
Biology 245: Mental Health and the Brain, 2008 - A seminar course exploring implications of past and ongoing research on the brain for thinking about the nature of mental health and about the value of various therapeutic and institutional approaches to mental health problems.
Senior Seminar: Biology 396 / Psychology 396, Neural and Behavioral Sciences, 2010
Senior Seminar: Neural and Behavrioral Sciences, 2008 - This course explores some of the opportunities and risks being opened up by past, ongoing, and anticipated research in the neural and behavioral sciences, in ways that make such explorations accessible to broader and continuing engagement by the public at large.
Senior Seminar: Nature, Nurture and Evolution, 2002 - a discussion of the significance of genetics and evolution for understanding human behavior.
Senior Seminar: Exploring the Consciousness Problem, 1999 - a resource base for examining what is consciousness? can it be productively explored scientifically? what are the best routes for such exploration?
Biology 361: Emergence, 2009
Biology 361: Emergence, 2006 - Crosslisted as Computer Science 361
Biology 398: Biology in Society
Chemistry
Chemistry 100: The Stuff of Art: a one semester course on art and chemistry, 2010
Chemistry 100: The Stuff of Art: a one semester course on art and chemistry, 2004-2006
College Seminar Courses
In Class/OutClassed: On the Uses of a Liberal Education, 2011 - This course is an invitation to reflect on the assumptions that shape education in the U.S., as well as on the habits of thought and action it encourages.
Food for Thought: The Omnivore's Dilemma, 2009
Food for Thought: The Omnivore's Dilemma, 2008 - This College Seminar was designed by a biologist and a literary critic to explore how we--as “free thinkers” with “open-ended human appetites”--might learn to make thoughtful decisions in a world that we may experience alternatively as both too-constrained and too-bountiful. We will draw on disciplines ranging from statistics to food studies--including anthropology, neurobiology, philosophy, psychology and literary interpretation.
Beauty, a Conversation between Chemistry and Culture, 2005
Memory and Imagination: The Self in Story and Society, 2004 - How do our human memories and imaginations give rise to the stories we tell and to the selves that we are becoming? In this course we consider the nature of memory and its relationship to imagination, both in the evolving life of the individual and in the development of the larger group or culture.
The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2004 - This course experiments with two interrelated and reciprocal inquiries: whether the biological concept of evolution is a useful one in understanding the phenomena of literature (in particular: the generation of new stories), and whether literature contributes to a deeper understanding of evolution.
Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Story Telling as Inquiry, 2007
Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Storytelling as Inquiry, 2006
Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Storytelling as Inquiry, 2005
Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Telling and Re-Telling Stories About Ourselves in the World, 2004
Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Telling and Re-Telling Stories About Ourselves in the World, 2003
Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Telling and Re-Telling Stories about Ourselves in the World, 2002 - co-designed by teachers of Biology, English and Folklore to explore the variety of ways in which we are all continually reaching for new understandings.
Questions, Intuitions, Revisions: Telling and Re-Telling Stories about Ourselves in the World, 2001 - co-designed by members of the Biology and English faculty to explore the variety of ways in which we are all continually reaching for new understandings.
The Nature of Inquiry: Story Telling and Re-Telling in the Sciences and the Humanities, 2000 - co-designed by faculty from the Departments of Anthropology, Biology, and English, explores the processes involved in telling and retelling stories, an activity in which all humans engage and one which is fundamental to intellectual and academic activities of every kind.
Human Understanding and Aspiration in a Material World, 1997 : a consideration of the similarities, complementarities , and differences between scientific and literary perspectives on the human condition, with a focus on such questions as the nature of truth and reality, and the relation between physical reality and the pictures of it generated by the human brain
Computer Science
Gender, Information, Science and Technology, 2011
Computer Science 361: Emergence, 2006 - Crosslisted as Biology 361
Disability Studies
Critical Disability Studies 2022
Critical Disability Studies 2021
Critical Disability Studies 2020
Critical Disability Studies 2019
Critical Disability Studies: Theory and Practice 2018
Critical Disability Studies 2017
Critical Disability Studies 2016
Portraits of Disability 2022
Portraits of Disability 2021
Portraits of Disability 2020
Portraits of Disability 2019
Portraits of Disability 2018
Portraits of Disability and Difference 2017
Portraits of Disability and Difference
E-Sem, Liberal Arts Courses for First Year Undergraduates
Changing Our Story, 2016
Changing Our Story ESEM: Shifting Identities, Altering Environments, 2014
Ecological Imaginings ESEM, 2012
Economics
Economics 136: Working with Economic Data: Valuing the Environment
Education
Advocating Diversity in Higher Education 2017 (* private)
Advocating Diversity in Higher Education
Breaking Esem 2013
Breaking Esem 2012
Critical Issues in Education 2016
Critical Issues in Education - Fall 2015
Critical Issues in Education - Spring 2015
Critical Issues in Education 2014
Critical Issues in Education 2013
Education, Technology and Society 2015
Education, Technology and Society 2013
Education, Technology, and Society 2012
Empowering Learners 2016
Empowering Learners 2015
Empowering Learners 2014
Education 244: Unsettling Literacy 2017
Identity, Access and Innovation in Education
Identity Matters 360: Being, Belonging, Becoming
Literacies and Education 2013
Literacies and Education 2012
Multicultural Education 2015
Multicultural Education 2014
Multicultural Education 2013
Education 208: Race-ing Education
Schools in American Cities 2017
Schools in American Cities
Education 225: Empowering Learners: Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching
Education 225: Empowering Learners: Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching
English
English 207: Big Books of American Literature, 2006 -"Alchemies of Mind": The Emotional Landscape of Classical Nineteenth-Century Texts
English 207: Big Books of American Literature, 2003 - a (re-?) turn to the grand old mid-19th-century American literature narratives, (re-?) reading them through the lenses of contemporary theory and contemporary culture.
English 209: Literary Kinds, Emerging Genres, 2012
English 209: Literary Kinds: Thinking Through Genre, From Blogs to...?, 2010
English 209: Emerging Genres: Form and Transformation, From Novels to Blogs, 2008 - This course will look at the ways new genres evolve, and ask what aesthetic, cultural and political purposes those transformations may serve. The class will take as its point of departure a longstanding reliance on the Darwinian theory of evolution as the model for the development of literary forms.
English 212: Thinking Sex: Representing Desire and Difference, 2003
English 212: Thinking Sex: Representing Desire and Difference, 2002 - examining our ability to put sexual experience into language, and whether doing so is an expression of sexual (or some other kind of?) agency.
English 218: Ecological Imaginings 2015
English 223:The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2011
English 223: The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2009
English 223: The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2007
English 223: The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2005
English 223: The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories: Exploring the Significance of Diversity, 2004 - This course experiments with two interrelated and reciprocal inquiries: whether the biological concept of evolution is a useful one in understanding the phenomena of literature (in particular: the generation of new stories), and whether literature contributes to a deeper understanding of evolution.
English 271: “House of Wits”: The Intersecting Wor(l)ds of Alice, Henry and William James, 2010 - This course is conceptualized as an extended visit with one of America’s most interesting and influential families: the unruly, expansive children of Henry James, Sr. We will focus on the remarkable writings of three of them: the diarist Alice, who became a feminist icon; the great novelist Henry; and the groundbreaking psychologist and philosopher William.
English 244: Unsettling Literacy 2017
English 293: Critical Feminist Studies 2013
English 293: Critical Feminist Studies 2012
English 293: Critical Feminist Studies: An Introduction, 2008
English 293: Critical Feminist Studies: An Introduction, 2007
Environmental Studies
Ecological Imaginings, 2015 - crosslisted in English and Gender and Sexuality
Eco-Literacy 360, 2014 - a trio of courses: Economics, Education, and English
Gender and Sexuality Program
Precarious, Performative, Playful, Potential ... Perspectives on Sex and Gender, 2011 - a junior seminar in the Gender and Sexuality Program, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
GASWorks: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender And Sexuality
Gender and Science: Re-envisioning and Revising the Relation, 2007
Playing with Categories: Re-doing the Politics of Sex and Gender, 2005 - a junior seminar in the Gender and Sexuality Program, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
Knowing the Body: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sex and Gender, 2004 - the core course for the Feminist and Gender Studies Program, Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
Also see listings under Computer Science, Disability Studies, English, Environmental Studies, E-Sem
General Studies
Mental Health — A BioPsychoSocial Perspective, 2002 - provide participants an opportunity to examine the concept "mental health" from a variety of perspectives (biological, psychological, and social/cultural/political), and to gain first hand experience with mental health services via a field placement in a community-based health, mental health, or social service agency.
Philosophy
Philosophy 310: Ideals of Scientific Exploration and the Nature of its Objects, 2008
Philosophy 310: Ideals of Scientific Exploration and the Nature of its Objects, 2006
Philosophy 310: Ideals of Scientific Exploration and the Nature of its Objects, 2005
Philosophy 310: Ideals of Scientific Exploration and the Nature of its Objects, 2003 - examining aims of scientific explanation, the realist/anti-realist controversy in the philosphy of science and the idea of growth of scientific knowledge.
Political Science
Political Science 291: Arts of Freedom
Psychology
Senior Seminar: Biology 396 / Psychology 396, Neural and Behavioral Sciences, 2010
Social Work
Social Work 556: Adult Development and Aging