Restricted to first semester first year students in the College of Arts and Humanities.

Does it sometimes feel like the world is falling apart? With a variety of crises facing humanity, it can be easy to give in to existential dread. In this course, we will seek to uncover ways to embrace panic as a productive exercise in humanizing. Drawing from disciplines such as ethics, philosophy, history, and politics, we will explore ways to existin the liminal space between fear and action and consider how to channel feelings of panic or despair in a way that allows us to build a more humane society together.