#UncommonCourses

Engineering students explore how to ethically design and locate nuclear facilities in this college course Students explore nuclear facilities in virtual reality and learn about the ethical dimensions of nuclear technology in a University of Michigan course.

#Engineering students explore how to ethically design and locate nuclear facilities in this @umich.edu course: buff.ly/O2MkiuK
By @repeatedroots.bsky.social and Katie Snyder #uncommoncourses

Engineering students explore how to ethically design and locate nuclear facilities in this college course Students explore nuclear facilities in virtual reality and learn about the ethical dimensions of nuclear technology in a University of Michigan course.

#Engineering students explore how to ethically design and locate nuclear facilities in this @umich.edu course: buff.ly/jEUFqkB
By @repeatedroots.bsky.social and Katie Snyder #uncommoncourses

Learning ethics − one Marvel movie at a time Marvel movies like ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Infinity War’ are the starting point for this ethics seminar.

A college course uses Marvel movies to explore #ethics, from gender empowerment in Captain Marvel to racial oppression in Black Panther. Half the class concluded Thanos may have had a moral point. buff.ly/jAXD1vG
By James Calvin Davis, Middlebury #uncommoncourses #highered

Understanding paranormal beliefs and conspiracy theories isn’t just about misinformation – this course unpacks the history Though paranormal theories are at odds with modern science, adherents have often tried to prove their beliefs with sciencelike methods.

@miamiuniversity.bsky.social’s “Investigating the Paranormal” course dives into how archaeology connects with #UFOs, conspiracy theories, and the unexplained. Learn more from the professor: https://buff.ly/4gbM8wI #paranormal #archaeology #UncommonCourses

Navigating deepfakes and synthetic media: This course helps students demystify artificial intelligence technologies Students learn skills to help them distinguish fact from fiction in the world of AI.

A Macalester College professor explains how the course “#AI Literacy and Building Resilience to Misinformation” helps students understand artificial intelligence technologies. https://buff.ly/3PO9pdk (Mozhdeh Khodarahmi, Macalester College) #highered #uncommoncourses

This class uses museums to show law students the high art of curating ideas Trial lawyers, like artists, have to connect with different audiences and push them to look at legal issues, people and ideologies in new ways.

Can studying art make you a better lawyer? A professor shares how this University of Michigan #law class uses museum visits to teach students about balancing evidence and emotion in legal arguments.
(Patrick Barry, University of Michigan) #museums #advocacy #UncommonCourses

This class uses museums to show law students the high art of curating ideas Trial lawyers, like artists, have to connect with different audiences and push them to look at legal issues, people and ideologies in new ways.

Can studying art make you a better lawyer? A professor shares how this University of Michigan #law class uses museum visits to teach students about balancing evidence and emotion in legal arguments. https://buff.ly/3PzQEdF (Patrick Barry, University of Michigan) #museums #advocacy #UncommonCourses

What the dead, the uncanny and the monstrous tell us about human nature A scholar of Tibetan Buddhism discusses how she challenges her students to rethink their preconceived notions of death, the afterlife and the concept of the ‘other.’

Unconventional approaches to teaching in @theconversation.com's #UncommonCourses series:

"What the dead, the uncanny and the monstrous tell us about human nature"

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What the dead, the uncanny and the monstrous tell us about human nature A scholar of Tibetan Buddhism discusses how she challenges her students to rethink their preconceived notions of death, the afterlife and the concept of the ‘other.’

From #Buddhist hungry ghosts to Haitian #zombies, a unique class at Case Western Reserve University examines how different cultures imagine death, the #afterlife, and the boundaries of humanity.
https://buff.ly/4jaQEhD
(Jue Liang) #UncommonCourses

This course uses crime novels to teach critical thinking Can stories about detectives from days gone by help students learn to think more critically? An English lecturer provides clues through a course that features novels about sleuths from a bygone era.

This course uses crime novels to teach critical thinking https://buff.ly/4gTCiAa #UncommonCourses

What is the ‘way of the warrior’? Students investigate the arts of war and peace in this course about virtue and the ethics of violence The study of martial arts involves physical training − but also raises larger questions about ethics and what justifies the use of force.

A Hamilton College course explores the “way of the warrior” through #martialarts and #philosophy, challenging assumptions about violence and examining ethical codes across cultures.
https://buff.ly/41o5L10
(Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo, Hamilton College) #UncommonCourses #Edusky

Students go to hell and back in this course that looks at depictions of the damned throughout the ages A course explores how ancient apocalypses find their way into movies and TV shows.

The “Road To Hell” course at University of Dayton explores 3,500 years of hell, spanning from ancient Egypt's “Book of the Dead” to contemporary evangelical "hell houses" designed to terrify people into seeking salvation. https://buff.ly/3CHJxwC (Robert Gordon Joseph) #uncommoncourses #religion