What subjects are covered in Dialogues@RU student papers?

Dialogues@RU publishes undergraduate research papers written for the Writing Program course "Research in the Disciplines" (English 201), and the subject matter spans the disciplines taught in that course. According to the journal's own description, student research topics come from areas of study including the STEM fields, Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, Film, and Literature. So the coverage is deliberately cross-disciplinary rather than tied to a single department.

Where the subject range comes from

The journal is not a departmental publication with a fixed disciplinary scope. It draws its content from English 201, a course that teaches critical reading and thinking, scholarly research, synthesis, and analytic writing across the disciplines. Because students in that course choose research topics from their own fields of study, the published papers reflect whatever disciplines those students are working in.

That structure explains both the breadth and the variation in each volume: a single issue can move from a STEM topic to a film analysis to a political science argument.

Subject areas named by the journal

The journal presents this as a list of examples ("including"), so it indicates the range of disciplines represented rather than an exhaustive or fixed catalogue.

What this means if you are looking for a specific subject

• If your interest is in one of the listed areas — for example Psychology or Literature — you can expect to find relevant undergraduate research among the published papers, though not necessarily in every volume.
• If your interest is in a field not listed — the list is illustrative, and the underlying course is described as spanning the disciplines, so the absence of a field from the list does not by itself mean it never appears.
• If you want to confirm coverage for a particular topic — the reliable method is to check the individual volumes directly, since each volume reflects the research topics of that year's students.

Checking a specific volume

The site lists its journals by academic year and volume number, including:

• 2024–2025, Volume 20
• 2023–2024, Volume 19
• 2022–2023, Volume 18
• 2021–2022, Volume 17

Browsing a volume's contents is the most direct way to see which disciplines and topics that year's papers actually cover, rather than relying on the general subject list alone.