Upcoming Labs
Justice through School Gardens
Engage with on-campus gardens and the roles they play in realizing civic virtues related to ecological awareness, social equity, educational opportunity, and community well-being as well as the historical, cultural, and ethical dimensions underlying them. Work in partnership with local schools and community gardens. Participants will design and implement projects that connect learning to real-world impact. *This course is part of the ASU Farm and Cultivating Civic Virtues through Action series of Humanities Labs.
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Fall 2025
Growing BioDiverse Cultures
Through hands-on collaborations with agricultural stewards and researchers from ASU Farm, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Italy, students will research transborder strategies for protecting and fostering biocultural heritage across different geographical and social contexts. Students will also examine the health and environmental challenges of industrialized, globalized food systems and how agricultural steward communities resist conventional practices and help us reimagine healthier and more sustainable food systems. *This course is part of the ASU Farm and Cultivating Civic Virtues through Action series of Humanities Labs.
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Fall 2025
Humanizing Digital Culture
This Humanities Lab explores how digital culture shapes human identity and our relationship with technology. Students will investigate digital identity, empathy, and real-world impacts while developing strategies to humanize digital technologies.
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Fall 2025
Re-Envisioning Food Systems
This Humanities Lab explores sustainable food sourcing and human flourishing through hands-on experience at a local farm. Students will re-envision food systems, examine desert ecosystems for sustainable farming, and develop small-scale interventions with broad impact. Their work will culminate in a case study for future use. *This course is part of the ASU Farm and Cultivating Civic Virtues through Action series of Humanities Labs.
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Fall 2025
Educating for Democracy
This Humanities Lab reimagines education to foster democracy, student agency, and community engagement. In this course, students will investigate the purpose of education, examine past and current educational innovations, and reimagine schooling by designing initiatives to foster democracy, student agency and community engagement. *This course is part of the Create the Change and Cultivating Civic Virtues through Action series of Humanities Labs.
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Fall 2025
Current Labs
Diplomacy Lab: Brazil
This Humanities Lab focuses on working collaboratively across disciplines to investigate current climate change challenges in Brazil that specifically affect marginalized urban communities (ex. democracy, human rights, health, energy security, economic policy, and conflict).
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Spring 2025
Printing el Pueblo: A Recovery
Faculty, museum curator, and students will collaborate to create a collection handbook to accompany an exhibition at the ASU Art Museum of the Hispanic Research Center’s art collection. This exhibition aims to elevate Latinx Printmaking and the ways it has shaped American art. The students will gain knowledge of artistic preservation and curation as well as formal and thematic elements of Latinx art. Student teams will draft, write, design, and publish a catalog for the exhibition as their course outcome.
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Spring 2025
Humanizing Digital Culture
Working together, Lab participants consider how digital culture is (re)shaping human identity and investigate the dual power of humankind's relationship to technology to create empathy while also causing real-world harm. What does it mean to be human in a digital world? How does digital identity determine how we relate to each other and the planet? How do we define and demonstrate human identity now and in the future?
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Spring 2025
Intro to Interdisciplinary Research
Students in this Lab will learn about interdisciplinary research, develop skills of collaboration, learn helpful research tools, exercise creative problem solving skills, and develop a team inquiry project focused on complex social challenges. Each session students will be working hands-on and minds-on in a workshop-like environment as we work through what the concepts & practices above mean and how to use various tools to help us meet our objectives.
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Spring 2025
Seeking Truth: Misinformation
From ancient to modern times, false narratives persist, though today they are amplified by the digital era and its numerous tools (ex. AI) and platforms (ex. TikTok). This surge has profound global to local repercussions, impacting media, politics, science, and economics while eroding trust in institutions, between communities, and affecting individual behaviors.
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Spring 2025
