Every Hollins student must complete the equivalent of four Short Terms. Short Term takes place during the month of January. First-year students are required to remain in residence during their first January Short Term. This means that they have two options: 1) take a Short Term seminar on campus, 2) participate in a study-travel program. Short Term seminars are designed to provide students with a focus of study they could not normally receive during the regular academic terms. Courses are often experimental or experiential, allowing students to produce or experience something unique. At the end of Short Term, students may participate in a Short Term Extravaganza in which they display or talk about their work. Here is a list of some of the seminars that will be offered this coming Short Term:

• Photographic Fictions
• The French Connection
• The Rhetoric of Women's Activism
• Bad Movies

If you are interested in participating in one of the study-travel programs, the options are:

• Cretan Tales: Minoan Marvels and Modern Mysteries (Professors Salowey and Richter, csalowey@hollins.edu, crichter@hollins.edu)
• Writing Travel/Travel Writing: Brazil and Argentina (Professor Abate, mabate@hollins.edu)
• Mexico City Program (Professor Hernandez, phernandez@hollins.edu)

These trips involve additional costs for transportation and other fees. Please contact the faculty sponsor as soon as possible as space is limited, and students must go through an application process.

Please click on the Slide Show to see examples of students’ Short Term experiences. Contact Alison Ridley, dean of academic services, at aridley@hollins.edu with any questions.