Cool Classes: Positive Psychology
Teamed with students at a nearby prison, Bucknell undergraduates question what it means to live a happy life, and who deserves happiness.
Cool Classes
Cool Classes: Physics for Future Leaders
Tomorrow's managers and innovators learn laws and lingo to guide science policy.
Cool Classes: Art & Sex Through the Lens of Botany
Bucknell students explore the biology and cultural meaning of flowers and create floral art in a new interdisciplinary course.
Cool Classes: Mass Investing Society
Bucknell students discover that everything old is new again in the stock market, in a course that compares historical events to the realities of Wall Street today.
Cool Classes: Geomorphology
Bucknell students dig, paddle and climb their way to understanding the changing Earth.
Cool Classes: Building an Innovative Character
An interdisciplinary course bridges the gap between management and the arts and sciences, pushing Bucknell students out of their comfort zones and helping them build character.
Cool Classes: Symmetry
Bucknell students uncover the delicate balance underpinning everyday life.
Cool Classes: Punk Rock Subcultures
Explore the bands, movements, scenes and fashions of punk genres — and the common values that link them across decades.
Cool Classes: Being Less Wrong
A Bucknell course helps students identify and navigate pitfalls that lead to poor choices.
Cool Classes: Human-Computer Interaction
What happens when computer science is infused with psychology, sociology, art and design? Bucknell students take a hands-on approach to finding out.
Cool Classes: Arts Entrepreneurship
A new class in arts management prepares Bucknell students for successful careers in the creative and artistic sector.
Cool Classes: Media, Space and Place
A Bucknell course challenges students to question their media consumption in a society migrating to new virtual spaces.
Cool Classes: Young Adult Fiction
Through critical analysis, Bucknell students explore the deeper meaning of favorite childhood books.
Cool Classes: Our Material World
How have humans over the centuries molded the materials around them, and how have those materials altered us? Bucknell students examine how we all live in a material world.
Cool Classes: The Politics of College
Bucknell students gain new perspectives on higher education in this course by discussing provocative readings and new survey data.
Cool Classes: Psychology of Beauty and Attraction
Bucknell students explore the biological roots of romantic behavior in Professor Joel Wade's Psychology of Beauty and Attraction class.
Cool Classes: Summertime
Between semesters, Bucknell students take advantage of summer courses to examine film, sustainability, globalization and more.
Cool Classes: How We Do Things With Words
Why does time equal money? Why is happy 'up' and sad 'down'? Bucknell students read between linguistic lines.
Cool Classes: Don’t Fear the Reaper
Society & Technology Residential College students ponder life and what comes next.
Cool Classes: Selfies, Etc.
Bucknell Humanities Residential College students explore the role of portraits in art, literature and contemporary culture.
Cool Classes: Problems Without Passports
Bucknell Global Residential College students explore how events around the world are connected, why they happen and what they mean.
Cool Classes: Christianity & Sustainability
Bucknell Environmental Residential College students explore the relationship between culture, community and the environment.
Cool Classes: Should We Start This Company?
Bucknell student entrepreneurs don't just ask how, they ask why.
Cool Classes: Sequence, Society and Self
Bucknell Residential College students question the elements that make us human.
Cool Classes: Masks and Meaning
Bucknell Arts Residential College students create their own masks and performances to explore social identity.
Cool Class: Learning Through Young Immigrants
Young immigrants in the local community are helping educate future teachers while also becoming more comfortable in their new surroundings.
Cool Classes: Summertime
These classes keep learning active throughout the summer at Bucknell.
Dying for God: Martyrs and Monks
How a coloring book helps Bucknell University students understand the dynamic relationship between text, reader and religious tradition.
Denting the Universe
How do artists and engineers practice creativity? This interdisciplinary course uses digital critique to find out.
Crafting Black Women
Bucknell students recreate products developed by innovative black businesswomen to explore history, race and entrepreneurship.
Integrated Perspectives
Is it art or destruction? Science or faith? Doubts or debts? It's all about perspective.
Talking 'bout a Revolution
When learning about social issues, Bucknell students are encouraged to tune in, act up and speak out.
Pilgrimage, Prayer and Purity
By studying religious ritual and emotion, Bucknell students confront and explore a taboo topic: death.
Calculating Lake Victoria
Students study the secrets held by the greatest lake in Africa to learn the math behind controlling epidemics, administering drugs and managing ecosystems.
Management 101
Despite long hours, intense pressure and group work challenges, this class is both legendary among and beloved by Bucknell students.
The Truth About Pirates
This class explores how the renegades and raiders of legend and lore have fueled positive change in the world.
More Than a Matter of Taste
Understanding the science behind how foods are made can help students develop a new appreciation for what they eat.
Archival Education
Bucknell students study the historical evolution of American higher education.
Beyond Doom and Gloom
In this class, Bucknell students are challenged to make sense of their inherently messy social worlds.
Election Results
Bucknell students consider how the nation has changed since the election of President Obama.
Zombies of Capitalism
What makes this Bucknell class so cool? BRAAAAAINS.
Classroom Hackers
Their assignment: Break into their classmates' computer systems while protecting the security of their own.
Peace Talks
Bucknell students learn about peace by delving into philosophical and psychological questions about memory and forgiveness.
When Rocks Attack!
From volcanic eruptions to floods to earthquakes, Bucknell students explore the raw power behind Earth's catastrophic events.
Devising Performance
Students collaborate, create and innovate to answer a central question: "What is knowledge?" And it all starts with a hunch.
The Art of Violence
Some of today's most outrageous entertainment is trumped by Renaissance drama.
Rethinking Feminism
Bucknell students create slam poetry to confront their preconceptions about the feminist movement.
Rising to the Challenge(s)
This engineering course turns the traditional teacher-learner model upside-down, and empowers Bucknell students to become the experts.
Ye Pirates, Beware
Bucknell students discover shipwrecks and explore uncharted territories to determine who owns the history of the sea.
Roar of the Crowd
Want to know the secrets of your favorite team's success — or failure? Take this class.
Mind Control
This Bucknell class has binge-watching down to a science. Literally.
Child's Play
In this cool class, Bucknell students learn that innovation is all around us.
Legacy of Love
Bucknell students reinvigorate Martin Luther King's "beloved community."
Our Food, Our Selves
In this cool class, Bucknell students explore one of our most intimate relations to the world: eating.
Statistically Speaking
Bucknell students learn the first step in decision-making: Check your stats — and everyone else's.
Chill Out
In this installment of our new web feature, "Cool Classes," Bucknell students heed the call of the wild in winter to understand humankind's relationship with the world.
WWLMD? (What Would Lady Mary Do?)
In the first installment of our new web feature, "Cool Classes," we see how Bucknell students better understand literature by watching Downton Abbey.