What do we value?
What do we know?
What do we owe each other?
Compass is an initiative by MIT faculty across the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. In the Compass class, students and faculty explore fundamental questions and how such questions relate to the everyday decisions we make about what is important to us, what is real and true, and what is right.
21.01 is a 12-unit, seminar-style CI-H and HASS-E offered for the first time in spring 2025.
Click here to learn more about the class and its flipped-classroom format.
What do we value? What do we know? What do we owe to each other? These questions delve into essential parts of life that every one of us must grapple with. Through discussions, debates, and community activities, Compass not only teaches students how to think about fundamental questions, but also how to talk about them, particularly when we disagree.