With Open Eyes: The Wake Forest University Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art at SECCA, through Sunday Oct. 2.
Every four years since 1963, a...
How does citizenship develop? In A Good American by Alex George (a Library Journal Best Book 2012) a German immigrant couple discovers the importance of...
Ron Chernow’s biography Alexander Hamilton runs 818 pages and weighs more than 2 pounds (even in paperback). You should read it anyway, and once you start...
A story about an immigrant and the social worker who loves him, All Our Names takes on complex issues of belonging, identity, and commitment to the countries...
Claudia Rankine is a poet and professor at Pomona College in California. Her award-winning book, Citizen: An American Lyric (2014), is a combination of poems...
This book encourages students to reflect on the meaning and practices of citizenship through the stories of non-citizens, those with little or no rights,...
Discussion leader: Dr. Katy Harriger, Politics and International Affairs
Ann Moody’s autobiography tells the story of a young African-America woman growing...
Discussion leader: Allen Brown, Office of Online Education
Written by one of the great essayists of his generation, Consider the Lobster provides fertile...
Discussion leader: Dr. Win-chiat Lee, Philosophy
We are all citizens of the world. That statement sounds pretty cool. But what does it mean? Does it make...
Discussion leader: Matt Clifford, Residence Life & Housing
Have you ever felt like there are completely artificial structures and rules built into our...
Discussion leader: Dr. Angela Mazaris, Director of the LGBTQ Center
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, written by MacArthur grant awardee Alison Bechdel, is a...
Discussion leader: Dr. Robert Whaples
How will your life turn out? How will our lives turn out? None of us knows. To help answer these questions, prepare...
Discussion leader: Dr. Kendall Tarte, Romance Languages
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot...
Discussion leaders: Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry, Maya Angelou Presidential Chair in the Department of Politics and Dr. Dani Parker, Associate Director of...
Discussion leader: Dr. Stavroula Glezakos, Philosophy Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? invites us to investigate the deeper moral commitments that lie...
Discussion leader: Brian Calhoun, Department of Counseling
Reinhold Niebuhr’s legacy is solidly entrenched in our history. Among his many philosophical and...
Discussion leader: Dr. Christa Colyer, Chemistry and Office of the Dean of the College
If, as Dr. Paul Farmer asserts: “the only real nation is humanity,”...
Discussion leaders: Dr. Michele Gillespie, History Department and Dean of the College Sonia Sotomayor’s acclaimed autobiography is a powerful and poignant...
Discussion leaders: Dr. Michele Gillespie, History Department and Dean of the College Sonia Sotomayor’s acclaimed autobiography is a powerful and poignant...
Discussion leader: Dr. Mary Pendergraft, Classics
Professor Allen studied Classics as an undergraduate at Princeton, and earned a Cambridge PhD in the same...
Discussion leader: Amanda Foster, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
We all wear clothes. Cheap and readily available, the introduction of “fast fashion” has...
Discussion leader: Dr. Al Rives, Chemistry
The core of our citizenship is revealed in our values … or at least our ability to make decisions and behave in...
Discussion leader: Betsy Chapman, Office of Family Engagement
From Amazon.com: “Soul of a Citizen awakens within us the desire and the ability to make our...
Discussion leader: Dr. José Villalba, Counseling and Office of the Dean of the College
Citizenship, or what some might summarize as a “sense of belonging...
Discussion leader: Rev. Timothy Auman, University Chaplain There seems to be an almost universal yearning for personal spiritual growth, which is nurtured in...
Discussion leader: Dr. Christy Buchanan, Psychology and Office of the Dean of the College and Riley Mistrot, WFU sophomore This fictionalized story of the...
Discussion leader: Dr. Stephanie Koscak, History Pioneers, explorers, frontiers, uncultivated wilderness, and the self-made man–these ideas are closely...
Discussion leader: Dr. Tom Phillips, Humanities and Office of the Dean of the College Following upon the horror of WWII in Europe, French Nobel Laureate...
Discussion leader: Justin Catanoso, Journalism Of all the great issues facing humanity, none is more pressing, dramatic or polarizing than climate change and...
Discussion leader: Dr. Darlene May, Arabic
One of the questions being bandied about in the current election cycle by presidential candidates, print and...
Discussion leader: Dr. Simone Caron, History
Citizenship bestows on us membership in a community with certain duties, obligations and functions, such as the...
Discussion leader: Dr. Alan Brown, Education
Why School? by Mike Rose contains compelling stories from Rose’s 40 years of working in education and insights...
Discussion leader: Rosalind Tedford, ZSR Library
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague might seem an unlikely pick for a book about citizenship but it is a...
Discussion leader: Dr. Amanda Jones, Chemistry In this book, Robert Pirsig tells of the summer motorcycle road trip he took with his son. In telling, he...