Past Communities
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Freedom Fighting
How did ordinary people destroy American slavery?
Prof. Richard Bell
Fall 2023
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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
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Visualizing Knowledge
Is data beautiful?
Prof. Oliver Gaycken
Fall 2023
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Cities
How do cities work?
Prof. Deb Niemeier
Fall 2021
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Digital Media and Law
What are our constitutional rights and ethical responsibilities as citizens of the digital world?
Prof. Deborah Nelson
Fall 2021, 2022
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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
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Linguistic Profiling
What are the implications of speaking with a dialect?
Prof. Ebony Terrell-Shockley
Fall 2018, 2019
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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
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Riots
When and how can riots be morally justified?
Prof. Bernard Cooperman
Fall 2018, 2019, 2020
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Write Now
Why does poetry matter?
Prof. Joshua Weiner & Michael Collier
Fall 2014 & Spring 2015