PREFACE.
PART I: WRITING CRITICALLY AND CONDUCTING RESEARCH.
1. Reading Critically.
"CULTURE BUNDLING AND OTHER OBSTACLES TO A REAL GUN CONTROL DEBATE," KEN WHITE.
2. The Writing Process.
“WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS,” ANNE TRAFTON.
3. Writing a Summary.
"DREAM MACHINES," WILL WRIGHT.
4. Writing a Critique.
"LIBERAL ARTS AND THE BOTTOM LINE," LANE WALLACE.
5. Writing an Argument.
"WHY LEGALIZING ORGAN SALES WOULD HELP TO SAVE LIVES, END VIOLENCE," ANTHONY GREGORY.
6. Writing a Synthesis and Documenting Sources.
7. Conducting Research.
8. Writing a Research Paper.
PART II: ISSUES ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES.
9. Pop Culture and the Arts.
“VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES AND REAL VIOLENCE THERE’S A LINK BUT IT’S NOT SO SIMPLE,” BRAD BUSHMAN.
“HOW SCI-FI AND FANTASAY CHANGE THE WORLD,” MONICA JIMENEZ.
“WHY I TEACH A COURSE CONNECTING TAYLOR SWIFT’S SONGS TO THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE, HITCHCOCK, AND PLATH,” ELIZABETH SCALA.
“HIP-HOP’S BETRAYAL OF BLACK WOMEN,” JENNIFER MCLUNE.
“LITERATURE INSPIRED MY MEDICAL CAREER: WHY THE HUMANITIES ARE NEEDED IN HEALTH CARE,” IRÈNE MATHIEU.
10. Technology and Society.
"WHY I JUST ASKED MY STUDENTS TO PUT THEIR LAPTOPS AWAY," CLAY SHIRKY.
“CHATGPT IS A PLAGUE UPON EDUCATION,” JEREMY WEISSMAN.
“WHY CHATGPT WILL CHANGE HIGHER ED FOR THE BETTER,” PETER JACOBSEN.
“CHATGPT, DALL-E 2 AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS,” NIR EISIKOVITS AND ALEC STUBBS.
“AI HAS SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES, BUT WHO PAYS THE PRICE?” BY CASEY FIESLER.
11. Education.
"CRITICAL THINKING? YOU NEED KNOWLEDGE," DIANE RAVITCH.
"EXCERPT FROM WHY SCHOOL? A STUDENT IN A COMMUNITY COLLEGE BASIC SKILLS PROGRAM," MIKE ROSE.
"A LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION HAS TREMENDOUS VALUE," E. BRUCE PITMAN.
“THESE HIGH SCHOOL ‘CLASSICS’ HAVE BEEN TAUGHT FOR GENERATIONS—COULD THEY BE ON THEIR WAY OUT?” ANDREW NEWMAN.
“BOOK BANS REFLECT OUTDATED BELIEFS ABOUT HOW CHILDREN READ,” TRISHA TUCKER.
12. Public Health.
“THE COVID CULTURE WAR: AT WHAT POINT SHOULD PERSONAL FREEDOM YIELD TO THE COMMON GOOD?” DENNIS WAGNER.
“WE’RE OVERLOOKING A MAJOR CULPRIT IN THE OPIOID CRISIS,” MAIA SZALAVITZ.
“KIDNEYS FOR SALE: A RECONSIDERATION,” MIRIAM SCHULMAN.
“HOMELESSNESS: THE OVERLOOKED PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS,” SAM GOODMAN.
“THE CHALLENGES OF TARGETING PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGING TO SPECIFIC GROUPS,” KEN HO.
13. Gender and Identity.
“THE GENDER BIASES THAT SHAPE OUR BRAINS,” MELISSA HOGENBOOK.
“HOW TOYS BECAME GENDERED,” MEGAN K. MAAS.
“THE MOVIE “BARBIE” HAS PUT THE PHRASE “TOXIC FEMININITY” BACK IN THE NEWS—HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE,” KARRIN VASBY ANDERSON.
“COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE INCREASINGLY IDENTIFYING BEYOND “SHE” AND “HE”,” GENNY BEEMYN.
"ONCE UPON A LIFETIME," RIZI TIMANE.
14. Equality and Discrimination.
"WHEN I WAS WHITE," SARAH VALENTINE.
“70 YEARS AFTER BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION, PUBLIC SCHOOLS STILL DEEPLY SEGREGATED,” ERICA FRANKENBERG.
““ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE” AND THE LATINO LEGACY OF SPIDER-MAN,’ REGINA MARIE MILLS.
“WHAT I LEARNED WHEN I RECREATED THE FAMOUS “DOLL TEST”,” TONI STURDIVANT.
“WHY ARE SOME AMERICANS CHANGING THEIR NAMES?” KIRSTEN FERMAGLICH.
15. Human Behavior.
"REVISITING THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT: A LESSON IN THE POWER OF SITUATION," PHILIP ZIMBARDO.
"THE REAL LESSON OF THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT," MARIA KONNIKOV.
"WILLPOWER AND WON'T POWER," MICHAEL SHERMER.
“BEING COPYCATS MIGHT BE KEY TO BEING HUMAN,” CONNOR WOOD.
“THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND WHY WE LOVE (OR HATE) HORROR,” HAIYANG YANG AND KUANGJIE ZHANG.
16. Environmental Studies.
. "GLOBAL WARNING: GET UP! STAND UP!" BILL MCKIBBEN.
"THE SIXTH EXTINCTION," JEFF CORWIN.
“3 ENVIRONMENTAL DOOMSDAY MYTHS, DEBUNKED,” JACK ELBAUM.
“CHANGING WILD ANIMALS BEHAVIOR COULD HELP SAVE THEM—BUT IS IT ETHICAL?,” DANIEL T. BLUMSTEIN, CATHERINE PRICE, AND THOM VAN DOOREN.
“THROWING SOUP ON A VAN GOGH AND OTHER WAYS YOUNG CLIMATE ACTIVISTS ARE MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD,” SHANNON GIBSON.
17. Marketing and Consumerism.
"EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY: THE DANGEROUS SPREAD OF COMMERCIALIZED CULTURE," GARY RUSKIN AND JULIET SCHOR.
“DOES CAPITALISM REALLY PROMOTE CONSUMERISM?” PATRICK CARROLL.
“CONSUMERISM: A LOVE STORY,” BRITTANY HUNTER.
“STRANGER THINGS, MILLER LITE, AND THE POWER OF NOSTALGIA IN THE MARKETPLACE,” BRITTANY HUNTER.
“HOW TO PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MORALS ARE,” LAURA WILLIAMS.
18. Glossary.
