Academics
Cool Courses
Explore our ever-expanding list of must-take Rollins College classes and go behind the scenes of some of the most interesting college courses you’ll find anywhere.
The Science of Sustenance
Edible experiments are making students rethink their relationship with food.
Creating the Digital Future
This project-based course goes beyond learning HTML to examine how computer science, the web, and digital media are shaping our society.
Strategies for Changemakers
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.
AfroFantastic
A new RCC course for first-year students culminates with an exhibition at Rollins’ Cornell Fine Arts Museum.
Physics for Future Presidents
First-year students jump at the chance to become scientifically literate, learning how things work so they can understand why they’re important.
The Science of Superheroes
From the Hulk to Spider-Man, a Rollins College class examines the powers of superheroes.
American Dreams & Nightmares in 20th-Century Literature
First-year students study how culture and context influence our values, fears, and aspirations.
Globalization
First-year students eager to dive into college get a crash course in how the world works and how they can be part of changing the narrative.
Incarceration and Inequality
Rollins students examine how well our country actually guarantees equal justice under the law.
Job Market Boot Camp
Graduating seniors don their best business attire and get intensive training on how to excel in the global workforce.
Systems & Design Thinking for Social Change
A new social entrepreneurship course takes aim at finding lasting solutions to enduring social problems.
The Global Economy
Students explore the economic relationship between the developed world and developing countries by partnering with a local direct-trade coffee shop.
Winter With the Writers Internship
The festival known for bringing major literary talent to Winter Park has hit its stride this season, and we’re taking a closer look at the interns who are making it all possible.
Biosphere
Students in this core environmental studies course are learning that if you want to save the world, you have to get your hands dirty.
Sports Analytics
Do statistics scare you to death? A new Rollins course uses athletes as an avenue to understand complicated mathematical concepts.
Foundations in Sculpture
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.
Teaching Philosophy to Kids
Rollins students are developing unconventional ways to help preschoolers learn critical-thinking skills.
Water, Sanitation, and Health in the Dominican Republic
Chemistry professor Pedro Bernal marks 20 years of leading students on trips to the island nation of his birth to provide household water filters.
Film as Art
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.
Zombies, Serial Killers, and Madmen
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.
