Stories
Summer Stories: Lakshmi Natesan '25
"Art is one of my passions, as is art education, and Bryn Mawr helped me with the first step in that career."
College Interviews Are Just Conversations
"I learned that interviews are a two-way process. They are a great opportunity to learn more about a college and see if it is a good fit for you."
How to Make the Most of Your Visit to Campus
"Whether you’re flying into Pennsylvania or driving down the road, here are some tips about how to make the most of your campus visits during the college tour season."
360°: The Transforming Legacy of Oil
This 360° combines courses from Growth and Structure of Cities, Economics, and History to assess how oil has affected our built environment as well as local and global economies.
360°: Constraints: Storytelling in the Digital Age
This cluster is based on the theoretical and interdisciplinary work that suggests that humans think in the form of stories.
360°: Trauma and Resilience through Comics
This 360° pulls together theoretical perspectives on comics, narration, trauma, and recovery to explore critical dimensions of the global experience of trauma, with a focus on interdisciplinary understandings of suffering and survival.
360°: Perspectives on Sustainability
We invite students to study the history of disaster rebuilding and the impact of the built environment on art and literature as part of broader networks of interactions both in East Asia and the West.
360°: Poetics and Politics of Race
The goal of this 360° is to unpack how meaning is made from representations of race—from artifacts in an anthropological context, to representations in literature, to how people teach and learn.
360°: Minerals, Museums, and Western Colonialism
This 360 will examine that question in the context of Bryn Mawr College’s mineral collection: more than 40,000 specimens, most of which were sampled in the mid- to late-19th century.
360°: Science, Power, and Truth
How can we use science to respond to the criticisms of those in power that might disagree with our fundamental assumptions about the reliability of scientific facts?
360°: Shakespeare in Global and Local Landscapes
In this cluster we approach Shakespeare as both a way of responding creatively to the contemporary world and as a way to create community and a context for learning.
360°: Performance Across Language and Culture
A series of international festivals such as the Globe to Globe Cultural Olympiad in London in 2012 has raised the visibility of cross-language productions, yielding a messy but rich trove of reception records in social media, scholarship, and reviews. This 360 takes a close look at these phenomena, asking students to engage it as performers, audience members, teachers, and scholars – studying and experimenting with multilingual and vernacular stagings.