For students interested in ethical, political, and social questions, the Writing Program offers seminars on these themes. Topics offered in this area include:
- Asians Are People of Color
- Agency Across the Ages
- AI and the Future of Learning
- America’s True Crime Obsession
- Anthropology of Religion
- Attention, Please
- Beyond Night: Elie Wiesel
- Bioethics and Identity
- China’s Influence Abroad
- Chronically Online
- Democratic Erosion
- Education and Work
- Ethical AI & Creativity
- Ethical Missteps/Public Health
- Italian American
- Linguistic Justice via Ubuntu
- Meaning and the Modern Self
- Philosophy & Science Fiction
- Philosophy in Times of Crisis
- Plato’s Republic
- Reimagining Happiness
- Rhetorics of Disability
- Role Immersion for Democracy
- Sociology of Code Switching
- Thrive: Connect, Act, Reflect
- Transformative Visual Media
- Writing More-than-Human Worlds
- Writing Race & the Environment
- Zionism and the Jewish State
- Attention/Distraction
- Loneliness across Disciplines
- Migration Culture
- Speaking Out for Change
- The Ethical Imagination