Science fiction can be thought of as a film negative of history – a back door into what used to worry people and what gave them hope.
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Students can play to their strengths in this anthropology course designed to teach them how to present research findings in ways other than a peer-reviewed paper.
Parks around campus at this university become a place for law students to produce prose and draw parallels between nature and the law.
Humans aren’t the only species to consider when constructing new buildings. This course teaches students to take animals into account as well.
Cats provide a purr-fect introduction to science topics, including ecology, evolution, genetics and behavior.
A political scientist describes a class he’s designed to help counter cynicism and distrust.
In asking how Buddhism gained such a vast material presence, the course helps students understand how a religion manages to survive over time.
Giving and receiving criticism can be difficult. This class tries to make it easier.
A history professor recounts how being indoors during the pandemic led him to rediscover his fondness for video games – and to bring it into the classroom as well.
This graduate course offers students a rare chance to gain firsthand experience prior to launching their careers and embarking on years of board service.
A professor shows science students how humanities classes are the real stem that other disciplines sprout from. They learn that critical thinking and skepticism don’t stop when they leave the lab.
A Miami nightclub owner and restaurateur has been adding star power to his class on entrepreneurship and hospitality.
A scholar of history of education and American politics explains what is behind his course on conspiracy theories and how students learn to debunk fake ideas.
Students are provided the opportunity to use America’s national parks as case studies for environmental issues and tough conversations in this course.
Learning to program requires mastering the nitty-gritty of code syntax. Generative AI turns out to be good at that. Adding AI to intro programming courses frees students to focus on problem-solving.
Students are invited to imagine how the social, political and legal landscape for cannabis will look in the future.
Apologies can easily go awry if they’re not made in a certain way.
Students learned not just a practical outdoor skill, but how to explain what they were learning to curious observers.
A journalism professor discovers that some of the best lessons for future journalists can be taught on a pool table.
Student journalists are using spreadsheets and databases to examine one of the darkest chapters in American history.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Digital Academic Initiatives, University of Michigan
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Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, State University of New York Cortland
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Assistant Professor of the Practice in Religion and History and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Guns and Society, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, United States Air Force Academy
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Professor of Black Studies and History, Amherst College
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Professor of Religion and Art History, Rice University
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Professor of Management & Organizations; Professor of Environment & Sustainability; Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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