Isabelle Cherry wrote this poem for the Art of Writing Spring 2025 course “Writing the Limits of Empathy” taught by… Continue reading What Draws Us Away

Student Writings
When Legal Defiance Is Justified
Arianna Laolagi wrote this piece on legal defiance for the Art of Writing Spring 2025 Legal Studies course “Theories of… Continue reading When Legal Defiance Is Justified
Writing the Limits of Empathy: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Material Detail, Anonymity, and the Role of Vulnerability in the Corpus of Writer 040427
kj wrote this piece for the Art of Writing Spring 2025 course “Writing the Limits of Empathy” taught by Alan… Continue reading Writing the Limits of Empathy: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Material Detail, Anonymity, and the Role of Vulnerability in the Corpus of Writer 040427
Reimagining Educational Justice: From Brute Luck to Democratic Equality
Joy Ruppert wrote this piece on property taxes and public school funding for the Art of Writing Spring 2025 Legal… Continue reading Reimagining Educational Justice: From Brute Luck to Democratic Equality
I Live in Your Pocket Now: The Hidden Influences of AI
Lucas Walsh wrote this piece on our relationship with AI for the Art of Writing Spring 2025 course “Writing Robots,”… Continue reading I Live in Your Pocket Now: The Hidden Influences of AI
Smoothed Out: How Interface Hides the Structure
Alankrita Malhotra wrote this piece on the ChatGPT interface for the Art of Writing Spring 2025 course “Writing Robots” taught… Continue reading Smoothed Out: How Interface Hides the Structure
Kasey and the Troubled Teen Industry
Over five weeks of Spring 2025 semester, Pushkin Industries senior producer and host Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey took selected Berkeley undergraduates through… Continue reading Kasey and the Troubled Teen Industry
Berkeley’s Hate Man
Over five weeks of Spring 2025 semester, Pushkin Industries senior producer and host Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey took selected Berkeley undergraduates through… Continue reading Berkeley’s Hate Man
Birding: A Museum Exhibit
In Spring 2025, executive director of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life Hannah Weisman led an intensive weekend… Continue reading Birding: A Museum Exhibit
The Accident: Fair Oaks, 2011
In Fall 2024, memoirist and novelist Sylvia Brownrigg led an intensive weekend Art of Writing undergraduate workshop on memoir-writing. Kennedy… Continue reading The Accident: Fair Oaks, 2011