Stories

Children's handprints

360掳: Learning and Narrating Childhoods

Incorporating a visit to the Titagya school in rural Ghana, this 360掳 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鈥搃n texts and theories鈥搈ainly by adults, across cultures and fields of study.

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Two rows of students and dancers (some kneeling in front) pose for cameras.

360掳: Paradigms of Revival

Black Liberatory Education, Embodiment & the Arts

In a fundamentally decolonial spirit, this course cluster examines the ways colonialism has contained, collected, captured, and commodified Blackness, a practice that circulates objectified images of the peoples, cultures, and cultural objects of Africa and the African Diaspora.

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Four students walk down a dirt road with brightly colored two-storey buildings on either side.

360掳: African Traditions

Healing in a Globalized World

Students will explore the ways in which African societies are trying to overcome colonial legacies, promote well-being, and contribute to fashioning our interconnected world.

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Professor Arlo Weil

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

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

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Mural of pioneering women

360掳: Changing Education

Changing Education, the first 360掳 offering at 草榴成人社区, is inspired by the College's 125th anniversary in 2010-11.

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Detail from Oil Symposium

360掳 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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detail of work by artist Bethany Collins. Zoomed in to reveal erasure of text and remaining text "鈥渂ut he continued to grieve for his native land, dragging his steps up and down along the shore of the sounding sea in great distress.鈥

Bethany Collins

March 17 - May 28, 2023, and ongoing

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A Rough Draft in Stone: Founding 草榴成人社区, 1872-1894

September 16, 2022 鈥 December 16, 2022

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Zenzi Tholo '25

Making a Difference

鈥淲hat really drew me to Bliss Dental was the goals the company has to make dental care available and accessible in the Black community and to make it a safe space.鈥

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Mechella Yezernitskaya

Making a Difference

"One of the questions I ask in my dissertation is, what does it mean to be physically far but psychologically close to a conflict? I find myself in the role of someone who is experiencing this war from afar yet incredibly close to my loved ones."

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Fay Koyfman '24

making a difference

鈥淭he goal is to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity for treatments and cures. This resonated with me because I am interested in medicine and specifically making sure there is equity in medicine.鈥

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