Stories about "Short Term"
As 15 students of Shakespeare prepare for London, it’s much ado about leaving
Friday, May 4, 2018 11:26 am
As they gather for London, English professor Sanford Freedman has some things weighing on his mind. Like the weight of his students' luggage.
Nine student projects in Lewiston-Auburn during Short Term
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 10:32 am
Working closely with community partners and Harward Center staff, 10 Bates College students are spending Short Term doing action research projects.
Q&A: Students click with digital marketing consultant Ashley Hart ’91
Thursday, May 18, 2017 2:07 pm
Hart talks about her return to teach for Short Term, her dedication to marketing — and how she discovered that passion as a member of the Chase Hall Committee.
Take a look at Short Term’s five weeks of ‘incredibly intense focus’
Friday, April 28, 2017 10:34 am
During Bates College's Short Term, when students choose only one course, faculty members "have their complete imagination. And that is just intoxicating."
When students unplug, what happens? (Hint: they like it)
Friday, September 16, 2016 11:07 am
What happens when students unplug? For that, we hear from 14 students who spent a stretch of time offline during their Short Term fieldwork in the Northern Rocky Mountains.
Picture story: Visiting Quebec City and Lewiston, learning to think like a historian
Friday, September 2, 2016 12:19 pm
Studying Quebec-to-Lewiston migration, students in a Short Term course learned the distinctive ways that historians “think and approach subject matter.”
Q&A: Based on a Short Term to Saudi Arabia, Loring Danforth’s new book challenges ‘destructive’ Orientalism
Friday, August 12, 2016 9:42 am
Danforth's new book, Crossing the Kingdom, is based on his 2012 Short Term that enjoyed amazing access inside Saudi Arabia.
Five stories from Short Term’s innovative practitioner-taught courses and course redesigns
Thursday, June 9, 2016 12:38 pm
Students and faculty in two innovative types of Short Term courses showed their stuff at an end-of-term showcase, including a major redesign of intro chemistry.
‘Here be Bates’: A history lab puts the college on the map
Friday, May 20, 2016 1:17 pm
The Bates College course "Innovations in Mapping" looks at two eras marked by big advances in mapmaking and navigation: the 1700s and the last few decades.