On-Campus Programs Overview
Shop Class for Democracy: Shop Class for Democracy deliberative forums build students’ skills in critical thinking, dialoging across difference, and deliberative decision-making and promote stronger commitment to democratic values and institutions.
Education for Citizenship Course: IDEA’s Director Michael Neblo teaches the course Education for Citizenship every spring semester. Students get to confront complex philosophical questions and policy issues head-on but do so in a rigorous, respectful, and constructive way.
Shop Class for Democracy deliberative forums build students’ skills in critical thinking, dialoging across difference, and deliberative decision-making and promote stronger commitment to democratic values and institutions.
Ohio State’s motto, Disciplina in Civitatem (Education for Citizenship), is the touchstone in terms of both its intellectual content and practical goals. In this course, students will confront complex philosophical questions and policy issues head-on, but do so in a more rigorous, respectful, and constructive way than recent political discourse in the U.S.
Shop Class for Democracy deliberative forums build students’ skills in critical thinking, dialoging across difference, and deliberative decision-making and promote stronger commitment to democratic values and institutions.
Ohio State’s motto, Disciplina in Civitatem (Education for Citizenship), is the touchstone in terms of both its intellectual content and practical goals. In this course, students will confront complex philosophical questions and policy issues head-on, but do so in a more rigorous, respectful, and constructive way than recent political discourse in the U.S.