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The Campanile at UC Berkeley, behind a flowering plant

Student Writings

What Draws Us Away

Still Image of Mother Holding Child's Hand from Mabarosi, 1995

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

When Legal Defiance Is Justified

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Other Marches in Selma, Alabama, 1965

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

Untitled, Prabhakar Kolte, Acrylic on Canvas, 2005

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

Poperty Tax Illustration (toy houses, coins, alphabet blocks spelling property tax)

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

AI Illustration Blue

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

Pixelated Greys

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

Kimberly Coleman in the Recording Studio

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

Berkeley's Hate Man Smoking Outdoors in Hat with Flower and Jacket with Political Buttons

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

Bird in Flight with Spread Wings against Blue Sky

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

California House

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

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