Xavier University's Across
Curriculum Thinking
(ACT) Program, first began in 1986
under the auspices of a Ford
Foundation grant, seeks to promote
critical thinking about vital issues
from an interdisciplinary
perspective.
Six to eight faculty mentors from
different
disciplines select a new topic each
year and examine that topic with
their students through class
discussions, brown bag luncheons,
films,
guest speakers and essays. ACT
was initially formed to
incorporate the disciplines central
to Xavier's liberal arts core
curriculum: Communications, English,
History, Philosophy and Theology.
Periodically other disciplines have
been represented such as Business,
Biology, Chemistry, Education,
Mathematics, Political Science
and
Sociology.
Previous
ACT
Themes:
| YEAR |
TOPIC |
| 2012-2013 |
Violence
|
| 2011-2012 |
Gender Justice |
| 2010-2011 |
Inequality |
| 2009-2010 |
Social Justice |
| 2008-2009 |
Social Justice |
| 2007-2008 |
Globalization: Benefits or
Burdens? |
| 2006-2007 |
Globalization |
| 2005-2006 |
Propaganda |
| 2004-2005 |
Peace |
| 2003-2004 |
Violence |
| 2002-2003 |
Migration |
| 2001-2002 |
Social Construction of
Reality |
| 2000-2001 |
Globalization |
| 1999-2000 |
Why 2 K? |
| 1998-1999 |
Commodification |
| 1997-1998 |
Generations and Traditions |
| 1996-1997 |
Environmental
Sustainability: City and
Country |
| 1995-1996 |
Environment: Global
Perspective |
| 1994-1995 |
Society and Self |
| 1993-1994 |
Gender Issues |
| 1992-1993 |
Nationalism and Ethnicity |
| 1991-1992 |
Technology and Hegemony |
| 1990-1991 |
Image and Reality |
| 1989-1990 |
Gender and Class |
| 1988-1989 |
The Global Village |
| 1987-1988 |
War and Peace |
| 1986-1987 |
Apartheid |
