Past Communities
Freedom Fighting
How did ordinary people destroy American slavery?
Prof. Richard Bell
Fall 2023
Free Speech
Why is the right to free speech so essential in a democracy and such a threat to totalitarianism?
Prof. Cynthia Martin
Fall 2023
Visualizing Knowledge
Is data beautiful?
Prof. Oliver Gaycken
Fall 2023
Cities
How do cities work?
Prof. Deb Niemeier
Fall 2021
Digital Media and Law
What are our constitutional rights and ethical responsibilities as citizens of the digital world?
Prof. Deborah Nelson
Fall 2021, 2022
Enterprising Cultures
How does personal identity shape our lives as entrepreneurs, workers, and consumers in a thoroughly business-oriented society?
Prof. David Sicilia
Fall 2017, 2018, 2019
Linguistic Profiling
What are the implications of speaking with a dialect?
Prof. Ebony Terrell-Shockley
Fall 2018, 2019
Novel Humans
What are the dark, uncertain borders between the human and the nonhuman, between the natural and the unnatural, between life and death?
Prof. Jonathan Auerbach
Fall 2015, 2016
Riots
When and how can riots be morally justified?
Prof. Bernard Cooperman
Fall 2018, 2019, 2020
Write Now
Why does poetry matter?
Prof. Joshua Weiner & Michael Collier
Fall 2014 & Spring 2015