Cool Classes

Each year between the fall and spring semesters, enterprising students return to campus a little early to participate in Intersession, a weeklong course dedicated to an interesting subject not typically offered during the regular semester.

Hear from peer mentor Michelle Rodriguez ’24 in her own words about how the Rollins College Conference course—RCC for short—acts as a roadmap for your Rollins journey.

In small classes, big things happen. Through open discussion, hands-on learning, and close-knit mentorship from faculty who know your goals and dreams, you emerge as a confident critical thinker ready to make your mark.

From madmen to witches, we’re taking a look at some of the spookiest courses on offer at Rollins and how they’re challenging students to look beyond the surface of cultural ideas that have shaped societies for generations.

Students in this independent study course experienced firsthand one of the many practical career applications of a math degree: working together to analyze data and find innovative solutions for real problems.

Tough conversations are the most meaningful in this community engagement class that offers a lifetime of takeaways.

A new course for first-year students culminates with an exhibition at Rollins’ Cornell Fine Arts Museum.

This honors course pairs students with preschoolers to explore the fine art of children’s literature—and the takeaways extend far beyond the creative process.

Go inside this series of linked environmental studies courses to learn how Rollins students are exploring sustainability issues right at the source.

Hammers in hand, Rollins students are exploring big concepts by building a tiny house.

This Intersession course taught Rollins students that just like there’s more to a recipe than a list of ingredients, there’s more to a population than statistics.

Rollins students explore the history of diversity and inclusion in education and at Rollins through the Pathways to Diversity grant.

Inside the innovative Rollins course that fuses biology, technology, sculpture, and abstract thinking in unconventional ways.

This 300-level 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.

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.

A new social entrepreneurship course takes aim at finding lasting solutions to enduring social problems.

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

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

This project-based course goes beyond learning HTML to examine how computer science, the web, and digital media are shaping our society.

First-year students eager to dive into college get a crash course in how the world works and how they can be a part of changing the narrative.

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

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.

In this cool college course, Rollins students are developing unconventional ways to help preschoolers learn critical-thinking skills.

Do statistics scare you to death? A Rollins course uses athletes as an avenue to understand complicated mathematical concepts.

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

Rollins students examine how well our country actually guarantees equal justice under the law.

Edible experiments are making students rethink their relationship with food.

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.

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.

From the Hulk to Spider-Man, a Rollins College class examines the powers of superheroes.

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