The Common Experience cultivates a common conversation, encourages participation, and fosters a sense of community among students, staff, faculty and the broader San Diego community.

2011-2012 Theme

Science, Ethics, and Moral Courage

About The Collaboration

The Common Experience team has collaborated widely in putting together an academic year filled with lectures, exhibits, symposia, and other events designed to foster intellectual engagement and shared conversation.The purpose of doing so is to support faculty members by providing resources and events that can be used to enrich any existing course with thematic ties to the theme, or to the book.One of the most exciting ways is via a monthly lecture series sponsored by the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology (with which SDSU is already partnered).On the first Wednesday of every month, September 2011 – April 2012, a lecture that connects to the book and to the science-ethics-humanity portion of the theme will be held at the Fleet Science Center.SDSU is hosting the November 2^nd lecture of that series, which will feature a talk by author Rebecca Skloot, following an earlier talk to be held on our campus that same day. To follow the Fleet lecture schedule, please navigate to the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology website; details regarding the specific lecture topics/speakers will be updated by July 2011 on the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology website: Ethics Center

About the Partners

The partners collaborating in this San Diego region “deliberative dialogue project” include the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology, SDSU (and all of its campus Common Experience partners), UCSD, USD, Pt. Loma Nazarene, Grossmont College, CSU–San Marcos, the Fleet Science Center, area high schools, and a group currently developing the Initiative for Moral Courage.  We expect, and will be happy to accommodate, additional partners as the project continues.