The Academy supports interdisciplinary seminars, team-taught by emeriti/ae from different disciplines. If you are interested in interdisciplinary team-teaching and don't have a colleague in mind, please browse the Member Profiles or contact us at emeritiacademy@berkeley.edu for assistance.
Ethics, Morality & Breaking Bad
Using the popular television series "Breaking Bad" as an illustration, the course introduced two important theories, action-oriented ethics and consequence-based ethics allowing students to explore their own ethical thinking and decision-making.
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Public's Health
Professors Emeriti John Swartzberg, Public Health, and Sam Davis, Architecture, explore the topic of vaccine hesitancy within the context of measles (Spring 2020) and then COVID-19 (Spring 2021 and onward). Read more about their interdisciplinary approach to this topic.