Learning in Community (LINC) has launched a second 8-week section of the ENG 315: Learning in Community course (3 credits). LINC is an interdisciplinary, inquiry-guided service-learning course. It is open to all students, all levels with no pre-requisites. Students will join one of several small teams to work on community-based projects. We need motivated, hard-working students to join existing teams. Please encourage students to join LINC—they will learn A LOT and really make a difference with our Community Partners!  Interested students should enroll in section SOS (CRN=62650) and contact Shikhank Sharma (sharma24@illinois.edu) as soon as possible to discuss project options and to get connected to the Project Managers.  More information about LINC can be found at www.linc.illinois.edu.

Available projects include:

Campus Middle School for Girls (T/R 12:30-1:50):working with the Lego Robotics team to develop a training manual and workshops to guide future coaches of the team.

IDOT Rights of Way for Biomass Energy (T/R 3:30-4:50):developing a cost-benefit analysis of using biofuels produced from plants grown on rights of way land to provide energy for IDOT maintenance facility.

Krannert Center for Performing Arts Office of Engagement with Old King’s Orchard Community Center (T/R 11:00-12:20): collaborating with community members to design a community garden and performance space to engage neighborhood youth in positive activities.

Champaign County Health Care Consumers and Promise Healthcare (T/R 12:30-1:50):developing social media strategies and an arts-based community engagement strategy to enhance healthcare education and improve access to healthcare; revamping nursing procedures manual and service delivery flow for community health center

Allerton Park (T/R 9:30-10:50):developing projects related to renewable energy sources (e.g., windmills, grass boiler systems for heat and cooling, solar power, waste water uses, water conservation methods, zero energy greenhouse production, geothermal systems).

The College of Media is offering a new class for the second eight week term of the Fall ‘13 semester.

 MDIA 199 Envisioning Information is a unique experimental course, developed with input from advertising and journalism faculty, that seeks to instill in students of all majors the hands-on skills and critical thinking needed to display information more quickly, more powerfully, more memorably and more believably using charts, graphs and other visual techniques. These skills are not only useful academic skills, they are clearly professional skills as well.

Taught by Eric Meyer, author of the book “Designing Infographics” and winner of numerous design awards, the course will explore data visualization processes and techniques suitable for a wide range of media, from newspapers, magazines, websites and broadcasts to newsletters, advertisements, institutional reports and corporate presentations.

Students will explore both theory and practice, visual and statistic literacy, while working in a computer lab with Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint, Adobe Illustrator and Flash and HTML 5/CSS 3 in a slower paced, more generic version of Meyer’s Multimedia Editing and Design course.

The course will meet 3:00- 5:50 Tue and Thur. It will be a 3 credit hour course.

Is education always a force for good?  In this course we’ll consider how different approaches to educating children and adults can support efforts to create a compassionate and fair society, and also how they might and have thwarted such efforts. Readings will cover historical perspectives on US education, topics in critical pedagogy the hidden curriculum, and democratic education.  Students will be invited to reflect on their own educational experiences and to think critically about education as a social force. This course is suitable for Education majors and for students from other departments with interest in social justice, education policy and theory, and social change.

Instructor: Rebecca Ginsburg

rginsbur@illinois.edu

Education Policy Studies (EPS) 390/CRN 60295

Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 – 12:20

33 Education Building

3 credit hours

Education

If you are interested in learning more about computer programming and the classroom, this course is for you.

CI 499: Computer Programming and the Classroom (K-8)
Instructor: Dr. Dan Hoffman
Time: 4:00pm – 6:50pm, Thursdays

Credits: 4 hours

This Fall, Dan Hoffman, a new member of the Curriculum & Instruction faculty, will be offering a course titled “Computer Programming and the Classroom (K-8).” This course is designed to introduce the theoretical, pedagogical, and practical aspects of integrating computer science activities into elementary and middle school classrooms. Throughout the semester we’ll review current thinking on computer science education and how computer science topics and concepts can impact learning across the curriculum. Students will experience a variety of hands-on activities using child-friendly programming environments including Snap!, Blockly, Tynker, and Hopscotch. No programming experience required. Open to all.

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EPS 390 Education and Social Justice

Prof. Rebecca Ginsburg

Tuesday/Thursday 11-12:20

33 Education

Crn: 60295

This class will introduce students to key definitions, theories, and practice of justice in education. Using a combination of philosophical and political theory-based analyses of the features of justice: fairness, equity, representation, responsibility, and difference, among others, readings invite students to consider how education and schooling can help to nurture democratic ties and equity. Drawing on a range of historical events and policy documents, this course will enable students to understand different definitions and applications of theories of justice.

LLS 359 Adv Topics in Latina/o US

(satisfies US Minority Cultures and Social Sciences gen ed)

Topic: “Banned Books of the Borderlands”

Taking the recent banning of “ethnic” literature in Arizona as the outgrowth of the new draconian border security initiatives, this course looks at daily effects of criminalized life in the US-Mexico borderlands. We will read several of the banned books as well as the social science and humanities treatments of US-Mexico border region, immigrant illegality, and related topics. We also look at the social movements and protests that have emerged in response to the bannings.

3 hours

Tues lecture & Fri discussions

LLS 240 Latina/o Cultural Expressions     

(same as ENGL 224 and SPAN 240)

Topic: “Latina/o Feminist and Queer Cultural Expressions”

In this course we will critically examine the production and performance of Latina/o identity and experience in the United States.  We will survey constructions of race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender through a critical examination of literary works, films, essays, autobiographies, historical narratives, and art by and about Latina/os in the United States.  In particular, throughout this semester we will focus on Latina/o feminist and queer forms of cultural expression, including Latina/os in hip-hop/music and spoken word/literature as well as in visual culture and graffiti.

3 hours

meets Tues & Thurs

LLS 100: Intro Latina/Latino Studies

(satisfies US Minority Cultures gen ed)

Interdisciplinary introduction to the basis for a Latina/Latino ethnicity in the United States. Topics include immigration and acculturation experiences and their commonalities and differences, comparison of Latina/Latino experiences to those of other racial, ethnic and immigrant groups, and the potential for a pan-ethnic identity.

3 hours

Mon & Wed lecture & Fri discussions