Bryn Mawr Stories
Fly-In Programs: Lantern Scholars
"A fly-in program allows you to experience the college environment in a way that a regular campus visit might not allow you."
Jewels of the Java Sea: An Exploration between Bali and Singapore
September 12-23, 2024
Tri-Co Philly: Place, People and Collaborative Research in Philadelphia
This transdisciplinary course, which will be taught in Philadelphia, focuses on anthropology’s contributions (and potential contributions) to engaging critical environmental issues in urban settings.
Tri-Co Philly: Epidemic City: Philadelphia from Yellow Fever to COVID-19
This course will examine the history of epidemic disease in American cities, with a focus on Philadelphia.
Tri-Co Philly: Race and Place: A Philadelphia Story
Using Philadelphia neighborhoods as our site of study, this course will analyze the relationship between race/ethnicity and spatial inequality, emphasizing the institutions, processes, and mechanisms that shape the lives of urban dwellers.
Tri-Co Philly: Access to Finance: Why Low-Income Households and Small Businesses in the US lack the financial products they need - a Philly Perspective
This course aims to look at the importance of access to finance to small businesses and low and moderate income households, identifies how and why this access is lacking and examines efforts to address this issues.
Tri-Co Philly: City of Brotherly Love: Images of a Changing City
The course will engage with the history of Philadelphia as an immigrant city and look at the ways in which the different neighborhoods have changed over time.
Tri-Co Philly: Environmental Justice: Theory and Action
An introduction to the history and theory of environmental justice, an interdisciplinary field that examines how inequalities based on race, class, ethnicity, and gender shape how different groups of people are impacted by environmental problems and how they advocate for social and environmental change.
Tri-Co Philly: Public Art, Historical Preservation and the Ethics of Commemoration
What is public art? What is public space? What is the role of public art in a democracy? Does the fact that something is historically significant give us a reason to preserve it? Which historically significant things should we preserve and why? What is the moral value of commemorative art? How should we assess controversies surrounding the removal of art honoring persons or groups we now judge to be morally objectionable? How best should we memorialize victims of injustice?
Tri-Co Philly: The Nature of Public Art and the Ethics of Commemoration
In this course, we will take up a number of philosophical questions about the nature of public art, political aesthetics, and the ethics of commemoration using case studies drawn from Philadelphia.
Tri-Co Philly: Philadelphia Music City
Drawing on the “music” side of the previously taught “Popular Music & Media” course, this course will investigate the history and contemporary conditions of music making in Philadelphia and its region.
Tri-Co Philly: A Sociological Journey to Immigrant Communities in Philadelphia
This course will use the lenses of sociology to critically and comparatively examine various immigrant communities that historically, economically, politically, and socially have shaped the city of Philadelphia.