Senior Seminar

Full title: Intellectual Responsibility in a Complex World
Course number: USR4002A
University/Department: NUS, USP
Offered: Spring 2015 (1 section), Fall 2015 (1 section).

“Intellectual Responsibility in a Complex World” is the official title of USP’s Senior Seminar, USP‘s then-new capstone course. It was a required course for any student entering USP in or after the fall of 2012. At the time, the course was taught using a thematic topic to emphasize different perspectives. To that end, it was deliberately team-taught by instructors with different backgrounds, with each discussing how the theme appeared in topics from his or her field.

• Spring 2015: My co-instructors were Mark Brantner, a rhetorician, and Mabel Wong, a political theorist.
• Fall 2015: My co-instructors were Jeremy Arnold, a political theorist, and Peter Vail, an anthropologist.

My Spring 2015 co-instructors and I also did some pedagogical work related to this course, which you can read about here.