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Winter Term
Oberlin provides a winter term each year to empower students to discover the value of self-directed education. Students may devise an individual project in collaboration with an Oberlin staff or faculty member, or participate in a group project that has been organized by Oberlin staff, faculty, or other students. These undertakings can happen on or off campus. The Office of Winter Term oversees these projects.
The central objective of this period is to continue the process of personal and academic discovery outside of the classroom.
Oberlin Musicians Collaborate at California’s Hidden Valley Institute
Winter Term projects culminate in performances involving TIMARA, dance, chamber music, and jazz.
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Chemistry Major Jane Sedlak Receives 2019 Nexial Prize
May 21, 2019
The annual $50,000 award recognizes excellence in sciences and passion for cultural study.
Students and Faculty Travel to China through LIASE Grant
March 1, 2019
Sponsored by the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) implementation grant, students, faculty, and staff traveled to China on two winter-term trips.
3D-Printing 101: If You Need It, Make It
February 21, 2019
Winter term is a monthlong opportunity for students to learn and experience new things. This year, Oberlin offered students a chance to try out something innovative: 3D-printing.
EEG and the Cognitive Sciences
February 20, 2019
Electroencephalogram is used in a variety of ways in the cognitive sciences to examine the structures and processes that underlie a creature’s ability to think and reason.
Oberlin Opera Theater Explores the Elusive American Dream in "Proving Up"
January 15, 2019
Five performances of Missy Mazzoli’s unsettling chamber opera begin January 31.
Tenor Nicholas Music '18 Returns to the Oberlin Spotlight
January 14, 2019
Graduate student to sing solo role in New York City tour performance of Stavinsky's Les Noce s.
Theater in London Winter Term: 12 Students, 10 Plays, 2 Weeks
March 13, 2018
How can a student see a show in a candlelit Jacobean theater, visit a 500-year-old pub, and get a backstage tour of a theater complex in just two weeks? By going on an Oberlin winter term trip, of course.
Winter Term Registration Moves Online
October 20, 2017
Registration for winter term has moved entirely online. To support students in this transition, One|Stop drop-in hours will be available.
“The Music is There but the Awareness is Not”
March 6, 2017
Ethnomusicologist Fredara Hadley shares her love of black music, women in jazz, and students finding their voice.
Making an Imprint
March 2, 2017
Students experience the time-honored craft of letterpress printing in this intensive, hands-on winter term project.
Building Solidarity with Youth in Nepal
March 1, 2017
Second-year Bikalpa Baniya is committed to improving education in Nepal’s rural villages.
24 Hours of Winter Term
February 13, 2017
Follow along a day in the life of students, faculty, and staff during winter term.
