W&L’s Spring Term is a great opportunity for students to dive into immersive topics, and take their learning outside the classroom! Students taking Field Ornithology with Paul Cabe, professor of biology, spend several days every week out in the field identifying birds in and around Rockbridge County. The class focuses on learning how to identify birds by visual and auditory observation, which is a key component of many avian research projects. By observing birds in a variety of habitats around t

The unique structure of W&L’s Spring Term allows students to dive into an immersive and intensive course of their choice, either here on campus or around the world! Students taking Chicana/o Art and Muralism with Andrea LePage, Pamela H. Simpson Professor of Art History, are exploring the process by which Chicana/o and U.S. Latina/o artists have garnered public attention and respect and taken their artworks from the peripheries of the art world to more traditional museum and gallery spaces. Usin