Tag Archives: Experiential Learning

Course Overview: Quests for Wisdom

27 Friday Oct 2017

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Post by: Mikaela Allen, MTS 2019, HDS Admissions Graduate Assistant.

Hello dear, prospective students!

Whether you are applying for this application season, or just beginning to consider your options for graduate study, we would like to introduce you to a few of the many compelling classes offered here at HDS through a series of blog posts that will stretch through this semester and into the next. We hope to bring you beyond the class descriptions given on the website to give you genuine accounts from students enrolled in these courses (though you should still check out the class descriptions for these courses as they are rather informative and thoughtfully constructed). Continue reading →

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Spring Celebrations: HDS’s Annual Baby Animal Extravaganza

08 Friday May 2015

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Last year, a new HDS tradition was born: Celebrating spring and reading week with the cutest procrastination aids around–baby animals! Last week, Animal Craze petting zoo of Winchendon, MA brought some of its newest residents to snuggle our students in the midst of their finals stress. Needless to say, a good time was had by all.

Baby goat snacks on MDiv candidate Aisha Ansano
Week-old ducklings and chicks
MTS candidate Cora McCold is delighted by a baby goat
Species collide as HDS dog meets piglet

Photos by Aisha Ansano and Caroline Matas

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J-Term: Comparative Monasticisms

07 Friday Feb 2014

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Saint Joseph's Abbey, Trappist Monastery. Photo by Jahnabi Barooah

Saint Joseph’s Abbey, Trappist Monastery. Photo by Jahnabi Barooah

“All I want to say to you is ‘You are the Beloved,’ and all I hope is that you can hear these words as spoken to you with all the tenderness and force that love can hold.  My only desire is to make these words reverberate in every corner of your being—‘You are the Beloved.’ ” —Henri J. M. Nouwen

If someone had told me a year ago that I was going to be a master’s student at Harvard Divinity School, with the opportunity to directly experience monastic life from the perspective of two different religions in the middle of January, I would have probably laughed in their face in complete disbelief. Continue reading →