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Inside a Rollins Classroom

The diversity of Rollins classrooms

Welcome to Rollins, the epicenter of engaged learning. Here, you’ll find no overflowing auditoriums, boring lectures, or uninspired professors. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. At Rollins, our intimate and personalized learning environment is designed to maximize engagement. It’s about application over memorization, mentoring over lecturing, and hands-on research over data downloading.

Find out why meaningful engagement and personalized attention matters by going behind the scenes of 25 of Rollins’ coolest classes. We have a feeling you’ll never consider skipping class again.

Rollins student carving a 3-D model.

1. The Art & Science of Cell Death

Students at Rollins are discovering the new course with a macabre name is actually a high-tech, historically grounded way to merge the complementary fields of science and the liberal arts.

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Rollins students performing a physics experiment.

2. The Science of Superheroes

Led by physics professor Chris Fuse, this course is dedicated to the study of superheroes—putting some of our favorite characters’ most famously unfeasible feats to the test to see what’s really possible.

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Anthropology students unearthing ancient treasures.

3. Archaeological Field School

In a swampy, secluded section of the Charles H. Bronson State Forest—about 20 miles due east of campus—Rollins students are unearthing an ancient mystery.

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Social entrepreneurship students tend to micro-farms.

4. Strategies for Changemakers

This hands-on course is all about learning what it really takes to become, as Gandhi encouraged us to do, the change we want to see in the world.

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Rollins computer science students create a walking-tour app.

5. Creating the Digital Future

Robots. Hackers. Self-driving cars. Emerging technologies and trends like these are transforming our world at a dizzying pace, and Rollins students are facing them head-on as they learn the ways that social forces mobilize the creation of new technology.

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A Rollins optics lab.

6. Physics for Future Presidents

First-year students jump at the chance to become scientifically literate, learning how things work so they can understand why they’re important.

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Rollins economics students have class in a downtown coffee shop.

7. The Global Economy

Students explore the economic relationship between the developed world and developing countries by partnering with a local direct-trade coffee shop.

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Environmental studies students tend to the earth.

8. Biosphere

Students in this core environmental studies course are learning that if you want to save the world, you have to get your hands dirty.

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Rollins communication class.

9. The Truth About Fake News

This course examines why fake news is a salient contemporary issue, what makes news legitimate or not, the consequences of the spread of fake news, and the tensions between fake news and the first amendment.

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Students visit a public arts space in downtown Orlando.

10. Art in Orlando

Orlando is an ever-growing cultural hub for the visual arts, and this Intersession class takes learning to the source. The students visited seminal art institutions around the city, including Rollins’ very own Alfond Inn, the Mennello Museum of American Art, the Morse Museum, Lake Eola, and Snap! Orlando, soaking up everything from sculptures and painting to installations and public arts spaces.

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Biology students tackle animal conservation in the wild.

11. Animal Conservation

This Intersession course takes students outdoors to learn about the most pressing issues threatening animal diversity.

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Local independent film house, Enzian Theatre.

12. Film as Art

Go behind the scenes of the Rollins class designed to instill a wider appreciation of films by allowing students to engage with more than 50 features, shorts, and documentaries during the Florida Film Festival.

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Exploring art at Rollins’ Cornell Fine Arts Museum.

13. AfroFantastic: Black Imagination and Agency in the American Experience

This Rollins College Conference (RCC) course for first-year students examines the complex social and political forces linked to Afrofuturism and culminates with an exhibition at Rollins’ Cornell Fine Arts Museum.

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Student working with children at Rollins’ Child Development Center.

14. Teaching Philosophy to Kids

Teaching philosophy to a group of preschoolers might seem like an exercise in futility, but Rollins students are finding that—given the right methods—young minds have great capacity to grasp complex concepts.

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Installing water filters in the Dominican Republic.

15. Water, Sanitation, and Health in the Dominican Republic

Chemistry professor Pedro Bernal marks 20 years of leading students on trips to the island nation of his birth to provide household water filters.

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Students visit Eatonville, one of the country’s first self-governing black communities.

16. American Dreams & Nightmares in 20th-Century Literature

First-year students study how culture and context influence our values, fears, and aspirations while quite literally tracing the steps of a local icon who forged her own version of the American dream.

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Economics professor explaining the economic impacts of piracy.

17. Mysteries and Marvels of Piracy

Examining the social and economic impacts of pirates throughout time—from Blackbeard to black-market bit streamers.

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Students learn about the chemistry of food.

18. The Science of Sustenance

From finding just the right recipe for baking chocolate-chip cookies to discovering why an avocado turns brown when sliced, this class serves up an equal dose of hands-on fun and practical knowledge.

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Students dress as zombies in one of Rollins’ most popular courses.

19. Zombies, Serial Killers, and Madmen

Getting inside the mind of a murderer isn’t for everyone. But for those who enjoy exploring the macabre, this philosophy class doesn’t disappoint.

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Rollins student finds her spirit animal.

20. Foundations in Sculpture

Connecting with their inner spirit animals, first-year students take a creative, hands-on approach to learning the foundations of a time-honored art form.

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Students visit Orlando’s Medieval Times attraction.

21. Dungeons & Dragons

From The Hobbit to Medieval Times, a course explores the fact and fiction of the Middle Ages.

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Rollins students network with area professionals.

22. Job Market Boot Camp

Graduating seniors don their best business attire and get intensive training on how to excel in the global workforce.

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Students exploring the Canaveral National Seashore.

23. Sustainability Beyond the Classroom

This series of five linked environmental studies courses delivers hands-on learning opportunities for students to apply classroom concepts to 21st-century environmental challenges in the real world.

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Students build their very own tiny house.

24. Applied Design Solutions

Students in this rFLA capstone course build a tiny house throughout the semester, all the while meeting twice a week to study issues of sustainability, affordable housing, and climate change. Think of it as a hands-on way to spice up the liberal arts with practical life skills.

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Students learn to cook dishes from local immigrants.

25. Food & Immigrant Cultures in Central Florida

This Intersession class teaches Rollins students that just like there’s more to a recipe than a list of ingredients, there’s more to a population than statistics. Students spend the five-day course listening to firsthand accounts of immigrants’ experiences, sharing their own food-informed histories, and tasting—and cooking—traditional foods from around the world.

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