Courage
What is Courage?
Defining Courage
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Courage in Action
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Economics
Syllabus: Economic Inequality
This course asks students to examine inequality from multiple perspectives, weighing its causes, consequences, and possible policy responses.
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Education
Syllabus: Supervision & Instruction
Future school leaders practice leadership virtues, character development, and practical wisdom as they learn to build more ethical, responsive, and caring school communities.
Religion
Syllabus: Disability Ethics
Through first-person disability narratives, campus accessibility work, and engagement with disability mentors, students learn to challenge harmful assumptions and advocate for communities where disabled lives are honored.
Philosophy
Assignment: Curiosity
A reflective philosophy assignment in which students track their social media use to examine how technology shapes curiosity, attention, and self-awareness.
Assignment: Teacher Observation Role Play for Leaders
A leadership role-play assignment in which aspiring school administrators practice teacher observation and post-conference feedback, using courage and integrity to support meaningful professional growth.
Business
Assignment: Failing Wisely Paper
A case study assignment in which entrepreneurship students analyze a failed venture or founder, identifying the decisions, conditions, and missing virtues that shaped the failure and what it means to fail wisely.
Assignment: Attention and Empathy
A reflective philosophy assignment in which students practice “philosophical living” through focused attention, listening, dialogue, and empathy, then connect those experiences to the virtues of hopeful citizenship.
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What’s Humility Got to Do with It?
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Civic Virtue among Engineers
An essay from a professor at Olin College of Engineering about virtues in the classroom and beyond
Erhardt Graeff
The People Practice
Nuila reflects on his dad’s practice of medicine and how it shaped his own identity as a doctor
Ricardo Nuilla
8 kinds of humility
Ravi Chandra summarizes research on 8 kinds of humility and how it can help you stay grounded
Greater Good Magazine
Academic articles
This is a round up of recent articles on humility in academic journals