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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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Winter Term Science Research
January 26, 2015
While many students complete their winter term projects off campus, some choose to remain in Oberlin. Of the approximately 855 students who are on campus this winter term, 78 are completing...
Student Compositions to Be Premiered by Formalist Quartet in February
January 23, 2015
Winter Term workshop includes collaboration with visiting artists.
Conservatory Students, Kendal Residents Perform Strawberry Fields
January 22, 2015
Six Kendal at Oberlin residents are joining conservatory students to perform the one-act opera Strawberry Fields. Performances will be held 8 p.m., Friday, January 30, and 2 p.m., Saturday, January 31, in the ’Sco.
Chamber Music Festival Returns to Oberlin in January
January 13, 2015
Series boasts 10 performances featuring Wasmuth Quartet, Prima Trio, Oberlin Trio, pianist Misha Namirovsky, Cleveland Orchestra members, and others.
What are You Doing for Winter Term?
December 16, 2014
Year after year, Obies like you undertake incredible winter term projects, and year after year, we in the Office of Communications love to share them. That’s why we’re asking you to send us your photos and links to other media or blogs to include in an Oberlin OnCampus photo gallery!
To the Home of Steel Pan
December 15, 2014
Oberlin Steel, Oberlin's steel pan band, travels to Trinidad this winter term to study performance and playing techniques and absorb the culture and history of the country that created the steel pan.
We Are the Scientists
March 14, 2014
Marie Lilly made personal and scientific discoveries while studying sea turtle behavior in Costa Rica.
Straight to the Source
March 14, 2014
Richard Tran traveled throughout Ghana to shadow the makers of traditional and contemporary art forms.
A Feel for Therapy
March 14, 2014
Double-degree student Matthew DiBiase combined his interests by shadowing music therapists and cognition researchers throughout New England.
A Job That's Actually Brain Surgery
March 13, 2014
During winter term, pre-med student Kendra Lian shadowed surgeons at a hospital in China. In exchange, she helped doctors brush up on their English skills.
Oberlin Takes Manhattan... and Cleveland and San Francisco
March 6, 2014
Two whirlwind networking tours. Ten days with theater and performing arts alumni in New York. A month with business and finance alumni in three cities. A small investment, big dreams realized. This is how Oberlin does intensive.
Do What You Love During Winter Term
February 10, 2014
The period between winter break and spring semester is an opportunity to take on new challenges—and to have fun doing it.
