Sapere Aude is an online publication created by and for the students of Chapman University’s Honors Program. Our journal showcases and celebrates students’ unique talents across the boundaries of discipline — encouraging students to engage with a biannual theme selected by the student-run staff, which encapsulates an idea we consider significant and relevant to the Honors student body. Sapere Aude accepts work that responds to the theme of the current issue — whether that work is non-fiction, creative non-fiction, short stories, essays, poetry, plays, screenplays, paintings, drawings, sculptures, music, dance, film, photography, fashion, etc. 

 

We encourage thematic and stylistic risk-taking and experimentation by thinking outside disciplinary “boxes” and by fostering collaboration between media and fields of study. Those that are selected to be published, in addition to the prestige that comes with publication experience, are given the opportunity to present their work in a space before their peers and contribute to the greater ambition of interdisciplinarity that our Honors Program values as its core philosophy. This publication celebrates the innovative and avant-garde spirit of our Honors Program and the academic and artistic excellence of its student contributors. As our motto encourages — ‘dare to know’. 

 

View the Fall 2025 issue, themed Contrast.