Stevenson offers a rich array of academic programming for the benefit of Stevenson students and the UCSC campus. In addition to the Core Course, in 2009-10 Stevenson will be initiating a course on the improvement of study skills. Stevenson's extremely popular "Rainbow Theater" course offers students hands-on experience creating multi-cultural theater. Also in development for 2009-10 are courses on "Everyday Ethics" and "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.

Another favorite program at Stevenson is "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.

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.

Stevenson Faculty Lectures in Recent Years:

2009-10 Academic Year

• Armin Mester, Professor of Linguistics, "Shades of Foreignness;" Spring 2010 
• Forrest Robinson, Professor of American Studies, "My Mark Twain;" Winter 2010

2008-09 Academic Year

• James McCloskey, Professor of Linguistics, "Sex and the Irish Language;" Spring 2009
• Mark Traugott, Professor of History, "The Revolutionary Barricade: How it Originated and What it Teaches Us about how History is Written;" Winter 2009

2007-08 Academic Year

• 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

2006-07 Academic Year

• 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

2005-06 Academic Year

• Isebill Gruhn, Professor of Politics Emerita, "Africa—Continent in Crisis: Does it Matter?;" Spring 2006
• Donka Farkas, Professor of Linguistics, "A Transylvanian in Search of Meaning;" Fall 2005

2004-05 Academic Year

• Peter Kenez, Professor of History, "Autobiography and History;" Spring 2005
• Jorge Hankamer, Professor of Linguistics, "What Can Computers Tell Us About Turkish?;" Winter 2005

Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lectures in Recent Years:

• Sally Sedgwick, "Reason and History: Kant versus Hegel;" Spring 2010
• Jonathan Kirsch, "Harlots, Holy Books, and History: Confessions of a Vulgarizer;" Spring 2009
• John R. Rickford, "African American Vernacular English, LInguistics, and the Black/White Achievement Gap in American Schools;" Fall 2008

Other recent intellectual programming at Stevenson has included 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.

Please visit the "Academic Events" page for upcoming academic programming at Stevenson.