2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements

2nd 8-Week Humanities Gen Ed on Sustainability open to your students

2nd 8-Week Humanities Gen Ed on Sustainability

Grand Challenge Learning: Experience, Learn, and Create to Understand Real World Problems

 

  • Meets Gen Ed Requirement for Literature and the Arts (Humanities)
  • Focus on sustainability, one of the most important challenges facing communities, nations, and the world.
  • Learn from some of the best teachers on campus and enjoy a small classroom community where you can ask questions and get hands-on experience.
  • Course begins on March 14 and runs through the end of the semester.

GCL 128b: Fictions of Sustainability: Food, Water, Energy

“Sustainability” may seem like it’s all about science but as human beings, we learn to act on our environment through experiences that shape our relation to the natural world.  In this class we think about how stories help us to explore these connections to food, water, and energy. Turning the campus into our lab and our readings into inspiration, we will source meals and embark on field trips.  We will read memorable works of literature from different parts of the world including popular dystopic fiction (“cli-fi”).

 

Meets on: TR 12:30-2:20 PM in 111 Speech & Hearing Sciences.

Professor: Gillen D’Arcy Wood

 

Alaina Pincus, PhD

Project Manager

Grand Challenge Learning

Editor, ABOPublic

English Department

University of Illinois

2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements

Hall of Fame Opportunity

When meeting with your students regarding second 8 weeks courses, please consider AHS199HOF, a “domestic adventure” course in cooperation with Applied Health Sciences and the Study Abroad Program. The three hour course will meet in the second 8 weeks (Wed  @ 5PM) and will conclude with a 12 day tour to several of the nation’s best known recreation, sport and tourism related destinations. (Baseball Hall of Fame, Basketball Hall of Fame, Football Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Niagara Falls, etc.)

 

The course will examine the role of sport, recreation, and tourism in developing communities.

 

At present we have openings for 5-6 students.  I will be having an informational meeting next week – Wed, March 2, from 5-6PM in 3005 Huff / Khan Annex.

 

 

 

2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements

Second eight week classes in LER

This is a reminder that LER can accept students into sections of three second-eight-weeks Global Labor Studies’ online classes.

The classes begin Monday, March 14.  The courses are:

LER 100 Introduction to Labor Studies

LER 110 Labor and Social Movements

LER 120 Contemporary Labor Problems

LER 199 Work and Labor in the Sports Industry (on campus section meets 2:30-5:00 Tuesday/Thursday)

 

If you’ve questions or a student who would like to see a syllabus, please email LER undergraduate program coordinator Prof. Steven Ashby at skashby@illinois.edu

 

Department of Statistics, Seminars

Statistics Seminar – Thursday, March 03, 2016 – Dr. Annie Qu

“Classification with unstructured predictors and an application to sentiment analysis”

Dr. Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Date: Thursday, March 03, 2016

Time: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Location: Engineering Hall Room 106B1

Sponsor: Department of Statistics

 

Abstract:

Unstructured data refers to information that lacks certain structures and cannot be organized in a predefined fashion. Unstructured data often involves words, texts, graphs, objects or multimedia types of files that are difficult to process and analyze with traditional computational tools and statistical methods. This work explores ordinal classification for unstructured predictors with ordered class categories, where imprecise information concerning strengths of association between predictors is available for predicting class labels. However, imprecise information here is expressed in terms of a directed graph, with each node representing a predictor and a directed edge containing pairwise strengths of association between two nodes. One of the targeted applications for unstructured data arises from sentiment analysis, which identifies and extracts the relevant content or opinion of a document concerning a specific event of interest. We integrate the imprecise predictor relations into linear relational constraints over classification function coefficients, where large margin ordinal classifiers are introduced, subject to many quadratically linear constraints. The proposed classifiers are then applied in sentiment analysis using binary word predictors. Computationally, we implement ordinal support vector machines and $\psi$-learning through a scalable quadratic programming package based on sparse word representations. Theoretically, we show that utilizing relationships among unstructured predictors improves prediction accuracy of classification significantly. We illustrate an application for sentiment analysis using consumer text reviews and movie review data. Supplementary materials for this article are available online. This is joint work with Junhui Wang, Xiaotong Shen and Yiwen Sun.

 

http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/1439?eventId=33072155&calMin=201602&cal=20160229&skinId=13335

Scholarships/Fellowships

Spring/Summer Scholarship Opportunities for U of I students

 
  David,
The University YMCA is currently accepting applications for two summer/fall semester scholarships, one for students who are traveling for international projects and the other for students interning with non-profit and public agencies. Would you please share these announcements with students in Statistics?

Kasey Umland
Bailey Scholarship Director

FRED S. BAILEY INTERNATIONAL SERVICE TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP FOR CAUSE-DRIVEN LEADERS
The Fred S. Bailey International Travel Scholarship program will fund up to 75% of the total cost of international travel with a service component.  Awards range from $600-$1800.  Eligible applicants must have been involved in the program (academic or extracurricular) for a minimum of one semester before traveling. Recipients will be selected on the basis of their demonstrated commitment to the project/program, long-term career goals in international development or related fields, the trip’s potential impact on the student’s learning and professional development, potential for positive impact on the host community and financial need.

 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

 

APPLICATION PERIODS
Application Period 2 (For trips that occur between May 1, 2016 – January 17, 2017)
Applications Open: February 15
Application Deadline: March 18
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FRED S. BAILEY INTERNSHIP SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR CAUSE-DRIVEN LEADERS
Are you interested in an unpaid internship but are concerned about the financial hardship it may cause? The Fred S. Bailey Internship Scholarship Program for Cause-Driven Leaders offers undergraduate students at the University of Illinois who receives an unpaid internship with a public service agency or not-for profit organization is eligible to apply. Awards are $1,000 for a part-time internship or $2,500 for a full-time internship and are given directly to the student.

 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

Summer 2016/Fall 2016 (For internships that occur between May 16, 2016 – December 31, 2016)
Applications Open: February 15
Application Deadline: April 18​
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UPCOMING DEADLINES: March 18 @ 11:59 PM (Travel)

                                            April 18 @ 11:59 PM (Internship)

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Kasey Umland

Director, Bailey Scholarship Program

University YMCA

217.337.1514

bailey@universityymca.org

 

  
 

 

 

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Department of Statistics, Undergraduate research

The Image of Research – UR Edition 2016 is now taking submissions

Have you constructed data visualizations for your research? Have you taken photos of your original student work?

 

Image of Research is a multidisciplinary competition celebrating the diversity and breadth of undergraduate research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. All undergraduate students are invited to submit entries consisting of an image and brief text that articulates how the images relates to the research.

 

Awards: First prize: $300 Second prize: $200 Additionally, there may be up to two honorable mentions.

All submissions will be displays at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 21, 2016.

See examples of past winners and all submissions: http://imageofresearch.omeka.net/

 

Submission form: https://illinois.edu/sb/sec/48397

 

Deadline for submissions: 12pm CST Sunday, March 27, 2016

 

For more information, please see the Image of Research-UR website

Questions should be addressed to sc@library.illinois.edu

 

The Image of Research is organized by the Scholarly Commons of the University Library and the Office of Undergraduate Research and is supported by a generous gift to the Scholarly Commons from the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics.

 

 

 

OFFICE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Fifth Floor Illini Union Bookstore

807 S. Wright Street, M/C 317

Urbana, IL 61801

Office phone: (217) 300-5453

ugresearch@illinois.edu

www.undergradresearch.illinois.edu 

 

2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements

Gen Ed History Courses, Second 8 week

General Education History Courses, Second 8 week, SP16

Some of these courses look like full term courses in Course Explorer, but that will be corrected by tomorrow. If students have trouble registering, the issue will be resolved very soon.

 

US & World Since 1917 HIST 274 Hist&Philosoph Perspect course , and Western Compartv Cult course

10-11:50 MWF, 255 Armory CRN 64465

Over the course of the twentieth century the United States rose to superpower status, in the process profoundly shaping world affairs. Students will study the connections between U.S. and global history in this pivotal period. Explores the impact of the United States on world affairs from roughly 1917 through the end of the Cold War. Attention given to the perspectives of people affected by U.S. policies and the limits of U.S. power in the face of developments such as anticolonial nationalism and great power rivalries.

 

20thC World to Midcentury HIST 258 Hist&Philosoph Perspect course , and Western Compartv Cult course

11-12:50am MWF, 393 Bevier Hall CRN 47978

Economic, social, political, and cultural developments in twentieth-century world history from late nineteenth-century to Second World War era.

 

US Gender History Since 1877 HIST 286 Hist&Philosoph Perspect course

12-1:50 MWF, N107 Turner Hall, CRN 34132

Examines the experiences of women and men in modern America, focusing on variations according to class, race, ethnicity, religion, region, and sexual preference; considers the impact of social movements on gender politics; gender and the wars of the 20th century; gender, reform, and social welfare policy; and the place of popular culture in the production of gender ideologies.

 

20thC World from Midcentury HIST 259 Hist&Philosoph Perspect course , and Western Compartv Cult course

2-3:50 MWF, 310 DKH, CRN 45890

Economic, social, political, and cultural developments in twentieth-century world history from Second World War era to the present.

 

Medieval Europe  HIST 247 Hist&Philosoph Perspect course , and Western Compartv Cult course

9-10:50 MWF, 311 Greg, CRN 34115

From the fragmentation of the Roman Empire to the formation of territorial monarchies, this course surveys the events, innovations, crises, and movements that shaped western Europe in a pivotal era known as “the Middle Ages.” Topics will include the spread of Christianity, the migration of peoples, fundamental changes in economic and social structures, the development of political institutions, the role of women, and the cultural achievements of different communities (the monastery, the town, the court).

 

United States History to 1815 HIST 270 Hist&Philosoph Perspect course , and Western Compartv Cult course

1-2:50pm, 134 Armory, CRN 54491

Social, economic, and political survey of the region and its relation to the evolving Atlantic community.

 

 

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Wendy Mathewson

Academic Advisor

 

Department of History

University of Illinois

309 Gregory Hall

810 S. Wright Street

Urbana, IL 61801

history.illinois.edu

Informational Meeting, Majors/Minors

College of AHS ICT Informational Meeting Cancelled for Wednesday, February 24

Due to the wintry weather conditions, the College of AHS ICT Informational meeting, scheduled for this afternoon, Wednesday, February 24 at 3:00 p.m. at Huff Hall, has been cancelled. We will be sure to share information about when this will be re-scheduled once more details are known. For now, we appreciate you sharing this with your students.

 

Stay warm and please be careful out there.

 

Many thanks,

 

Kathi Ritten

Academic Advisor

College of Applied Health Sciences

Department of Speech and Hearing Science

2nd half-session courses, Course Announcements

Second 8-week Creativity course

ENG/TE 498 Creativity: Generating Ideas

Course question: How do you enhance your creativity?

 

2 credit hours

Open to all majors, all levels

Project/problem-based, no exams

No prerequisites or engineering background required

Hybrid format: online plus face-to-face, meeting days and times arranged to accommodate your schedule

 

For more information, see Schedule in Course Explorer, CRN: 64739 or  64741