Oberlin Center for Convergence (StudiOC)
Recent Courses
StudiOC offers several semester-long courses each academic year with topics that span Oberlin’s academic spectrum.
Tamika Nunley, assistant professor of history and comparative American studies, reviews the day’s lesson in the StudiOC course, Upending the Archive.
Photo credit: Matthew Lester
Oberlin College and Conservatory faculty developed learning communities comprised of two or three individually instructed courses from different academic departments clustered around a common theme. These theme-based learning communities are multidisciplinary, which encourages inquiry, creativity, and collaboration for both instructors and students.
Explore Our Learning Communities
Fall 2024
Spring 2024
Fall 2023
Spring 2023
Fall 2022
Spring 2022
Fall 2021
Spring 2021
Fall 2020
Spring 2020
Fall 2019
Spring 2019
- Arts of Desire
- The Art of Teaching and Learning
- Forms of Justice: Democracy, Historical Memory, and the Legacies of Violence
- The Science of Aesthetic Experience
Fall 2018
- Plagues, Pandemics, and Society
- Sanctuary Practices: Race, Refuge, and Immigration in America
- Arts of Conflict Resolution
Spring 2018
Fall 2017
- Sports, Culture, and Society
- Arts and the Overlooked
- No Art, No Voice?
- Matters of Fact, Matters of Fiction