Photos by Jordan Green, Northwestern News

Where does learning take place?


Before the coronavirus pandemic, students sat beside each other in small, stuffy classrooms. But with social distancing measures being enforced, the traditional classroom environment has been disrupted.


To keep students safe, professors have taken their pupils to places never before used as classrooms. The lesson here is simple: No matter where, Rangers are learning how to have a touch of class.

Students practice social distancing in Dr. James Bell’s introduction to film class, which is taking place in Carter Hall Room 108, in this Sept. 24 photo.
Students practice social distancing in Dr. James Bell’s introduction to film class, which is taking place in Carter Hall Room 108, in this Sept. 24 photo.
The Northwestern Oklahoma State University Marching Band rehearses on the intramural field near Coronado Hall in this photo taken Monday.
The Northwestern Oklahoma State University Marching Band rehearses on the intramural field near Coronado Hall in this photo taken Monday.
The Northwestern Oklahoma State University Chorale, under the direction of Dr. Karsten Longhurst, sings outside of the J.W. Martin Library Sept. 24.
The Northwestern Oklahoma State University Singers, under the direction of Dr. Karsten Longhurst, sings in Ryerson Hall Room 200 on Sept. 28.
Officials in the J.W. Martin Library removed chairs from wooden study tables in the library to ensure that students are sitting at least six feet apart from one another in the library. They stacked the chairs underneath a staircase leading up to the study rooms on the second floor of the building.
Tables in the library each have a limited number of chairs to allow for social distancing.