The Messages Are Everywhere: An Intersectional City as Text[TM] Approach to Enhance Honors Preprofessional Student Learning

This essay recounts efforts to teach liberal arts to engineering, nursing, pharmacy, and pre-medicine majors. Showing how various forms of public media reinforce harmful ideologies about social identities in the United States serves as a convergence between preprofessional disciplines and the liberal arts. At the same time, City as Text[TM] offers exploratory learning beyond the traditional classroom. This educational approach fosters students' transformation in thinking about power and privilege, enabling a dialogue about the miseducation of various economic, racial, ethnic, gender, and (dis)abled communities. Keywords: higher education--honors programs & colleges; City as Text[TM]; intersectionality; inclusive education; University of Toledo (OH)--Jesup Scott Honors College Citation: Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2022, 23(2): 39-44