Upcoming Labs
Accessible Urban Farming
Students will explore issues of accessibility, equity, and inclusion in local food systems through hands-on work with urban farms and school gardens. Engage directly with farmers and community partners to understand how access to fresh, healthy food shapes quality of life. Participants will design projects that promote awareness and foster more equitable, sustainable food communities.
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Spring 2026

Global AZ: Development Futures
Examine how global development challenges connect to Arizona and local communities. Guided by interdisciplinary experts, students engage with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and design collaborative projects that link global concerns to local action. The course culminates in public-facing outcomes that promote wellbeing and shared prosperity.
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Spring 2026

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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Spring 2026

Harnessing AI for Good?
Explore how artificial intelligence is shaping healthcare, criminal justice, and education while raising urgent ethical and policy questions. This course invites students to critically examine AI’s foundations, assess its societal impact, and collaboratively design frameworks for a more just and ethical future.
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Spring 2026

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.
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Spring 2026

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 2026

Current Labs
Educating for Democracy
Students will explore how schools can prepare young people to thrive as active participants in a pluralistic democracy. By examining the purpose of education and past innovations, they will reimagine schooling to foster student agency, civic engagement, and sustainable futures. Participants will design initiatives that connect learning to democratic action and community well-being. This Lab is part of the Create the Change and Cultivating Civic Virtues through Action series.
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Fall 2025

Growing Biodiverse Culture
Students will explore the health and environmental challenges of globalized food systems while collaborating with agricultural stewards from ASU Farm and international partners. Through hands-on projects, they will research strategies for preserving biocultural heritage and share solutions for building healthier, more sustainable food futures. This Lab is part of the ASU Farm and Cultivating Civic Virtues through Action series.
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Fall 2025

Humanizing Digital Culture
Students will explore how digital culture shapes human identity, relationships, and our connection to the planet. Working in teams, they will investigate questions of empathy, harm, and the future of technology, then design strategies to humanize digital tools and practices.
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Fall 2025

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

Re-envisioning Food Systems
Students will investigate the challenges of creating sustainable local food systems through hands-on experience at a small-scale farm. Working in teams, they will explore the potential of desert ecosystems, design creative interventions, and document lessons learned in a collaborative case study. This Lab is part of the ASU Farm and Cultivating Civic Virtues through Action series.
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Fall 2025
