The Levitt Justice Lab S2025: Technology and Justice: Local and Global

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Description The Levitt Center invites students to apply to the Spring '25 Justice Lab. The Lab is a semester-long opportunity where students take a set of three to four parallel courses that combine mutually reinforcing academic and experiential learning around the broad theme of justice. All the instructors in the Lab work together to coordinate syllabi and assignments and to provide students in the Lab with an integrated, interdisciplinary understanding of the topic. For next semester's Justice Lab, Profs. Justin Clark, Robert Knight, Chaise LaDousa, and Sharon Rivera will teach four connected courses in which students will study the relationship between justice and technology from both a local and global perspective. With an emphasis on the ethical use of technology, its potential to promote a more just world and the potential threats that technology may pose, students will study the issues through the lens of philosophy, photography, and anthropology. Professor Knight will teach an introductory photography course focused on social justice, Professor Clark’s course on justice and the good life will introduce various theories of justice within moral philosophy while focusing on e...