Every year, millions of students move into a dorm room for the first time. It’s an exciting experience, albeit a stressful one, and a journey that introduces each student to the environment that will support them for the majority of their college career. Ensuring a smooth, painless move can help set a better tone for […]
5 Tips For Acing The LCSW Exam
A person who has worked as a social worker, can add an additional qualification by taking the Licensed Clinical Social Worker Exam (abbreviated as the LCSW). This will enhance the career opportunities available to them and often their income. However, like all exams it is necessary to prepare for the LCSW in the right way. […]
Weekly News Digest, No. 28
Happy summer and welcome to the twenty-seventh installment of the Project on Civil Discourse’s Weekly News Digest, hosted on our Real Talk blog. Campus Speech Richard Adams, education editor, writes about the UK policy that aims to prevent the recruitment of terrorism. According to Corey Stoughton, director of Liberty, the UK’s Prevent Strategy is the “biggest threat […]
HOPE
Sebastien Delcasso from the Graybiel lab at MIT published a method for developing a brain implant called “HOPE” for combining with optogenetics, pharmacology, and electrophysiology: HOPE (hybrid-drive combining optogenetics, pharmacology, and electrophysiology) is a method that simplifies the construction of a drivable and multi-task recording implant. HOPE is a new type of implant that can […]
When Trumpets Fade
This course will introduce you to the men and women who have fought our nation’s wars since 9/11, and critically examine a few of the social, political, and moral implications associated with their service. Who (and what) are they? What do we owe them? We will examine these and other important questions together, taking an […]
What is Legitimate?
The course explores how and why equilibria around questions of legitimate action in the areas of domestic governance, foreign policy, and international interventions form and why they often remain contentious. The course encourages students to understand ideas of legitimacy as bound in time and space, i.e., what is considered legitimate by some societies at some […]
We Are All Zombies
Water Politics Crisis
Every year more people die from unsafe drinking water than from all forms of violence, including war. Global demand continues to rise, with a large part of humanity, some 25 percent, living with water scarcity. It is a crisis that is only becoming more severe. This course surveys the factors that are driving this dire […]
The Problem of Freedom
This course considers why freedom is an enduring human desire and why that desire is complicated and problematic. Over the course of the semester, students examine why freedom is a problem, at once eliciting strong attachments and deep controversies. Students consider what it means to be free in a variety of perspectives and contexts, from […]
The Era of Bad Feelings
America is more divided than ever today. Or is that true? How far back does this phenomenon go? The course examines the politics, culture, and history behind the current Era of Bad Feelings from the Civil Rights and Vietnam era to the present. The class will explore these issues through critical readings, lectures, guest speakers, […]