I studied abroad with the Music and Bible Departments in Leipzig, Germany this summer. Having only traveled out of the country once before (the previous summer I went to Thailand), I expected to experience the culture shock I had in Asia in addition to homesickness due to the extended length...

During our Maymester course – Europe in War and Peace, 1914-2014 – we spent time in Oxford, London, Berlin, Prague, and Leipzig. There are many things I could say about the experiences we had, and the different memorials we visited in each city. However, I would like to reflect on how our...

Justice and Urban Studies Team Design for Change – Dallas My inspiration for this week’s post comes from something that is so much bigger than me. It comes from an experience I had that I can’t explain, but that I have been thankful for ever since it happened. During the JUST students’...

Leadership Summit is a short course put on by COBA that takes students into the mountains of Colorado and gives them the opportunity to hear incredible business people speak about leadership and life. Our days were spent in sessions with various speakers including Wes Stafford, John Aden and...

I had a wonderful experience traveling to Salem with the Honor’s College and studying the effects of the witch trials upon our society throughout history. This trip helped remind me that the event wasn’t just limited to a few meager sentences in a textbook, but rather that it claimed the...

I had the opportunity to visit Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween for an Honors Colloquium studying the Salem Witch trials. I hadn’t ever really learned about the witch trials, other than hearing about them in the movies, like Hocus Pocus, which I later learned is very wrong. When we first...

How the 1970s Relieved and Relived American Cultural Wars During a weekend-long interdisciplinary colloquium, students examined the intersection of the 1970s American social and cultural milieu. Would the turbulence of the 1960s (Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Assassinations) fade away to the...

What is artificial intelligence, and when will it enslave the human race? During a month long colloquium, a group of our students took a look at the future limits of technology where computer logic confronts human reason. The discussion included exploring consciousness versus neural networks,...

Towards the end of the previous semester, I was introduced to ACU’s COBA (College of Business Administration) Leadership Summit. Although my degree in computer science is technically part of the COBA department, I had never heard of this program and never had the desire to attend. Especially...