Annual Intellectual Theme

Each year, faculty in programs across the curriculum design courses and assignments aligned with Illinois Wesleyan University’s Annual Intellectual Theme, a strategic initiative designed to bring the campus community together around a common intellectual experience. Experiences such as these have been identified as a high-impact educational practice and provide important opportunities to advance the library’s mission to “[foster] inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge, intellectual and ethical integrity, excellence in teaching and learning, and respect for diverse points of view.”

The IWU Annual Theme program originated in the 2014-15 academic year. Since then, a coalition of faculty, staff and students on the Intellectual Themes Workgroup gather to select, frame and create programs around an idea or theme with the potential to engage thinking, creativity and dialogue through multiple disciplinary lenses and interdisciplinary approaches. The goal of the workgroup is to create a dynamic, year-long conversation that develops vibrant curricular and co-curricular.

This collection contains a description of each theme and a list of courses and events associated with it. More information may be available in the University Archives' Record Group 3 - 9/2/4.

Annual Intellectual Theme

Themes from 2022 2022

Themes from 2020 2020

Themes from 2019 2019

Themes from 2018 2018

Themes from 2017 2017

Themes from 2016 2016

Themes from 2015 2015

Themes from 2014 2014

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