Intensive course in a broad disciplinary area (humanities, social sciences, arts, or natural sciences). Part of an integrated first-year experience in which students take 2-4 classes exploring aesthetic, humanistic, social, linguistic, environmental, or scientific issues. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Co-requisite: Enrollment in the appropriate Liberal Arts Scholars Program.

Fundamentals course in effective, informative, and persuasive public speaking and critical listening. Includes theory and practice.

Exploration of major issues and global systems in the contemporary world and practice in how to develop arguments and advocacy around these topics. By engaging in structured debates on global topics, driven by student choice, participants will analyze diverse worldviews, power structures, and cultural experiences. The learning outcomes this will yield are critical thinking, research, and communication skills as persuasive arguments are constructed, responded to, and reflection is done on discussions.

Participation in the Lawrence Debate Union's intercollegiate competitive debate team. Students gain competency in oral communication, teamwork, critical thinking, problem/solving, argumentation and analysis, and advocacy by learning the fundamentals of debate through practice and skill-building; research and case-building; debate competition; public debates; and civic engagement. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.