Mudd Center and Mary Church Terrell Library

Mudd Center and Terrell Library is a 5-floor expansive library and resource center, right in the middle of campus. It houses the Writing and Speaking Center, CIT, Azariah's Café, and CELA: the Center for Engaged Liberal Arts.

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⭐ Academic & Experiential Learning Opportunities

Our first-year students get support before they even arrive on campus!

Academic Advising & Support

Your academic advisor, who is often the professor of your First-Year Seminar, will help you choose classes, explore majors, and connect you with other support resources on campus, including:

🗣️ The Speaking & Writing Center in Terrell Library, where you can drop in anytime to work on a presentation or essay with a trained peer.

🦉 The Oberlin Workshop and Learning Sessions (OWLS), where a Teaching Assistant for a science or math class supplements the professor's instruction with extra help sessions.

📚 Appointments with the Research Librarians in any of the 4 campus libraries.

1️⃣ Free one-on-one tutoring for any class.

➕ Drop-in help for problem sets or studying for a test at the Quantitative Skills Center.

Study Away

Approximately 75% of our students travel off campus for study, service, internships, or Winter Term, and Oberlin is part of a consortium of colleges that together offer more than 125 accredited study away programs in 50+ countries on six continents! For Oberlin-affiliated programs, students pay the same tuition with no additional costs and the academic credits they receive will automatically transfer back to Oberlin. You can browse all the study away programs here from South Africa to Russia to Cuba.

Winter Term

Winter Term is a four-week period between the fall and spring semesters when students design their own project or join a faculty-led group project. Winter Term allows students to explore their interests outside of their regular coursework. As long as students get approval from a faculty member, they can go anywhere and do any project that they’d like! The possibilities are endless – You could do an abbreviated internship in NYC, join a faculty research team here on campus, hone a skill or learn a new instrument in your hometown, or learn to scuba dive in Honduras.

Bonner Center

The Bonner Center for Community-Engaged Learning, Teaching & Research connects students, faculty, staff, and community partners with each other. Some of these opportunities include off-campus employment, teaching experiences in classes, winter term projects, and community-based research in the non-profit and public sectors. Bonner Scholars provide underrepresented and first-generation students with a four-year community service scholarship program offered by Oberlin College in collaboration with the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation.

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