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Course Offerings for Spring 2026
"Tech Data Bias and Ethics" with Howard University
The Tech Data Bias and Ethics course is an interdisciplinary course constructed to prepare students to think explicitly about their social responsibility as users and creators of technology and its impact on the Black world. Using contemporary case studies from recent news stories and legal cases, students will learn about issues such as intellectual copyright, consent, data security, differences between privacy and confidentiality, difficulties of anonymization, and bias in artificial intelligence. Students will be engaged with fundamental questions of justice in relation to data and computing in American society. In addition, students will be involved in extra-curricular and extra-university activities.
"Live Like a Philosopher: Ethics and Civics in the Ancient World” with Wesleyan University
What does it mean to live a well-lived life? Philosophy in the ancient world was viewed not simply as a discipline or set of doctrines, but as a way of life itself. In this project-based learning course, we will study and put into practice the views of four distinct approaches to the good life from the Greek and Roman world, drawn from the writings of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, and the Stoics. The course will be divided into four units. In each unit, after some preliminary work studying the theories associated with each school, students will “live like a philosopher” by incorporating these theories into their daily lives. The aims of this course are to test the viability of these philosophical views, consider how they may be put into practice, and explore how they may illuminate for us what it means to lead a well-lived life. By the end of the course, students will have gained insight into some of the most enduring and influential ideas about the good life from the Greco-Roman world.
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