Stories

Children's handprints

360°: Learning and Narrating Childhoods

Incorporating a visit to the Titagya school in rural Ghana, this 360° explores how children grow and develop in different contexts (e.g. schools, communities, households) and cultures (e.g., the United States, West Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa) and how this growth and development is conceptualized and represented–in texts and theories–mainly by adults, across cultures and fields of study.

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Students pose in front of a butterfly mural, with arms outstretched like wings.

360°: Migrations

This 360° uses the lenses of cultural studies, history, and sociology to critically and comparatively examine migration in different national contexts and historical moments.

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Professor Arlo Weil

360°: Origin Stories

This year-long cluster explores the intersections of scientific, philosophic and humanistic ways of thinking about, writing about, and visually representing ways we look at origin stories.

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Mongolia at the Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve 3

360°: Eurasia in Flux: Trans-Siberian Perspectives on Russia and China

This 360° cluster focuses on the unique ties between Russia and its largest neighbor to the East, China.

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Photograph of Katharine Hepburn holding and looking into a hand mirror

360°: Mirroring the Self

Participants will study the history and theories of self-portraiture, self-representation, and self-fashioning in cultures around the globe from antiquity to the present.

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China and the Environment 360 on factory tour

360°: China and the Environment

This 360° cluster, comprised of courses in philosophy, history (East Asian Studies), and economics, will look at the many environmental problems and issues that beset our contemporary world. We will explore the environment from the perspective of several disciplines: philosophy (both "Western" and "Eastern"), economics, history, politics, and natural science.

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Century of Self Expression Exhibition

360°: Exhibiting Modern Art

This 360° will consider differences in addressing academy and community as audiences, and bring together theoretical and practical aspects of art history, art criticism, art exhibition, and art education.

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360°: Food and Communication

This cluster focuses on the idea that food is a medium, a cultural vehicle that transports and is transportable and transportive.

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Student taking a photo from a balcony

360°: Contemporary Cuban Culture and Society in a Global Context

This cluster brings together students and faculty to understand a country whose past and future are bound up deeply with the United States and the rest of Latin America even as it has charted very different courses within contemporary history and social policy.

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Detail from Oil Symposium

360° Symposium: Flourishing Beyond the Legacy of Oil

The symposium brought together students, academics, government, legal, and planning representatives, and industry professionals, to talk about the future of cities like Philadelphia, as they deal with the transforming influence of oil and other energy sources.

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Students and faculty gather in two rows in front of a fountain, with green trees behind them.

360°: Empires

This 360 cluster consists of three courses that examine different aspects of “empires.” It brings together historical, linguistic, and scientific perspectives in the study of imperial experiences and their present-day implications.

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Mural of pioneering women

360°: Changing Education

Changing Education, the first 360° offering at Bryn Mawr, is inspired by the College's 125th anniversary in 2010-11.

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