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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.

Explore the on-campus experience

  • Growing Organics Down Under

    Kendra Lockard spent her winter term in New Zealand volunteering with World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms on a blueberry and blackberry farm.

  • Winter Has Arrived

    So long 60-degree days! Winter has finally arrived in Oberlin. Those of us in town can expect more snow showers throughout the week. Snow Emergency Parking Plan information can be found in this PDF.

  • Healing a Painful Past

    From 2006 to 2012, Oberlin students participated in an international effort to replicate an 18th-century Polish synagogue. A documentary about the project is screening around the world.

  • Imagining Havana

    Hispanic studies course and winter-term trip to Havana provide an unfiltered account of life in Cuba.

  • Diversify Your Collection

    Second-year Kate Diamond spent winter term compiling titles of science fiction and fantasy books with diverse characters into an online database, All Our Worlds. The staff of the Oberlin College Library agreed to add 100 such titles to its collection.

  • Asia in America Behind the Lens

    A group of six students traveled to New York City over winter term to interview and photograph Asian Americans and Asians living in the United States. Their project culminates in a photography exhibition.

  • Finding Asia in America Exhibition

    First-year students Linh K. Tran (Clover), Jenny Xin Luan, and Naomi Langer explore their surroundings in New York City. The students were among a group of six who ventured throughout New York City...

  • Liberal Arts Means Business

    For students selected for Oberlin’s Business Scholars program, a liberal arts background gives them a distinct edge in the world of finance and investment banking.