Stevenson offers a rich array of academic programming for the benefit of Stevenson students as well as the campus as a whole. In addition to the Core Course, in 2006-7 Stevenson will be initiating a course on thesis writing, as well as a course on the improvement of study skills, both to be taught during spring, 2007. Stevenson’s extremely popular "Rainbow Theater" course offers students hands-on experience creating multi-cultural theater. Also in development for 2006-7 are courses on "Everyday Ethics" as well as "Religious Perspectives on Life: A Pluralistic View."

 

Students at Stevenson may also work one-on-one with a faculty member to develop an individual studies course. Interested students should contact an academic adviser.

 

In previous years a favorite program at Stevenson has been "The Ethics Bowl," a competitive debating team dealing with ethical issues of the day. Students may earn 2 units of Stevenson independent study participating on the Ethics Bowl Team. Click here to visit the Ethics Bowl website.

 

Stevenson sponsors a rich Faculty Lecture Series, where faculty fellows of the college discuss their current research. These lectures inspire wide discussion among faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates.

 

 

Recent faculty lectures have been as follows:

 

Junko Ito, Professor of Linguistics, "What Anime and Karaoke Have In Common: A Linguistic Perspective"; Spring 2008

 

Buchanan Sharp, Professor of History, "Kings, Commoners, and Food: The Moral Economy in Medieval England"; Winter 2008

 

Jonathan Beecher, Professor of History, "The Making and Unmaking of a Christian Bolshevik: The Soviet Years of Pierre Pascal”; Spring 2007

 

Jaye Padgett, Professor of Linguistics, "Perception and Linguistic Sound Systems"; Winter 2006

 

 

Isebill Gruhn, Professor of Politics Emerita, “Africa—Continent in Crisis: Does it Matter?”; Spring 2006

 

Jorge Hankamer, Professor of Linguistics, “What Can Computers Tell Us About Turkish?”; Winter 2005

 

Donka Farkas, Professor of Linguistics, “A Transylvanian in Search of Meaning”; Fall 2005

 

Peter Kenez, Professor of History, “Autobiography and History”; Spring 2005

 

 

Other recent intellectual programming at Stevenson has included a two day visit by Jonathhan D. Moreno, Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania; and, a three-day visit of Stevenson’s Alumni Association Distinguished Visiting Professor, Professor Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, at Stanford University. In addition, the college sponsored a series of events on ethics, science and technology. These included a panel of distinguished religious and scientific scholars on the "intelligent design" debate, and a lecture, by Professor Laurie Zoloth, on "The New Biology and Stem Cell Research". Laurie Zoloth is Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at Northwestern University and Director of the Center for Bioethics, Science, and Society at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine.