As we begin Fall Priority Registration, I’m reaching out to share details about Econ 102 and 103. This information is also posted on our website here.

Good news! We were able to add more seats to both Econ 102 and 103 for this fall. This will help students of all levels gain access to both courses.

Fall ’24 Econ 102 and Econ 103: The majority of seats restricted to Freshmen and Sophomores through New Student Registration.  Instructors are not able to grant overrides.

Monday, April 1: We will open up several hundred unrestricted seats to both courses
Beginning Monday, April 15th, all sections will be restricted to students with freshmen and sophomore standing through New Student Registration

August: A limited number of emergency overrides will be granted through the Override Request Form. Priority will be given to graduating seniors whose programs require Econ 102 or 103. 

Any remaining seats will be opened after the override review process with no restrictions.

Please note and share with students that:

• Instructors are not able to grant overrides
• We are not keeping a waitlist
• We are not currently granting overrides (but we will follow the process above during which we will consider all override requests)

If these classes reach maximum capacity, students who wish to take Econ 102 or 103 have several options:

• Students may take Econ 103 before taking 102
• Students can take the Econ 102 and/or Econ 103 Proficiency Exams to earn course credit
• Students may take Econ 102 or 103 in the Winter or Summer terms
• Neither of these courses is restricted in the Spring semester.

All Econ course restrictions are posted to our website here.

Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions!

THANKS,

JAMIE THOMAS-WARD, JD, MS (SHE/HER)
Director of Undergraduate Studies
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department of Economics
214 David Kinley Hall
1407 W Gregory Dr
Urbana, Illinois 61801
217.244.5237 | thomas99@illinois.edu
www.economics.illinois.edu

If your students are looking to fill in one or two credit hours, we have seats left in the following courses. These courses are available to students in any department and in any major.

TE 100 – Introduction to Innovation, Leadership and Engineering Entrepreneurship (1 credit hour)

TE 360 – Lectures in Engineering Entrepreneurship (1 credit hour)

TE 390 – Innovation and Engineering Design (2 credit hours)

Please let me know if you have any questions and stay safe out there!

Laura

LAURA A. MILLER

Academic Adviser & Coordinator of Academic Programs

The Grainger College of Engineering | Technology Entrepreneur Center
364 Coordinated Science Lab | 1308 W. Main St.
Urbana, IL 61801 | 217.333.4704 | arriola@illinois.edu

Leading Post-Performance Dialog (THEA 417/GWS 417)

Arts engagement exploration and the dramaturge in social issues theatre. Includes hands-on experience of animateur (facilitation) work with INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre.

Great class for those who want to use theatre in their work (social workers, educators, and other community-focused practitioners).

https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2023/spring/THEA/417

4 credits or I unit

Devising Social Issues Theatre (THEA 418/GWS 418)

Focus on writing and devising theatre explicitly concerned with social issues in the context of community. Works created in this course often go on to be performed by the INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre ensemble.

https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2023/spring/THEA/418

3 credits or I unit

INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre Ensemble (THEA 400M)

The focus of the ensemble is public performances. Open to all students. While past

experience is useful, it is not necessary. Students may choose to receive credit for their participation in the ensemble.

https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2023/spring/THEA/400

2 credits

Please feel free to contact me, or have students contact me directly with questions,

Many thanks,

Lisa

LISA FAY MFA
(Pronouns She/Her/Hers)

Program Coordinator | INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre program

Ensemble Director| INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre ensemble

INSTRUCTOR | Devising Social Issues Theatre . Theatre/Gender and Women’s Studies 418

GWS Open Courses

We’ve just added a new section of ENGL 109 (Intro to Fiction) to the spring schedule (all others are currently full). The focus of this particular section will be “Fictional Tech” (read on for a description), and this should appeal to students in a broad range of disciplines. This is an Advanced Composition course and a Lit & Arts Gen Ed.

ENGL 109: Intro to Fiction
The literary critic I.A. Richards famously described “the book” as “a machine to think with.” While we don’t always consider books as technologies, this course will consider the idea of “fictional tech” from two complementary angles. First, we will survey a range of fiction—historical and contemporary—that imagines, interprets, or interrogates the promise and peril of new media technologies. How can fiction expand our collective technological imagination, and what strategies does it offer for resistance? Second, we will explore the media technologies that have evolved in tandem with fictional genres—from the novel to video games—and consider how the media of fiction shapes its audience, reception, and cultural messages. How does the history of communications technology help us understand the evolution of fiction itself, and what might that history offer our interpretations of literature?

ANNA IVY
Senior Academic Advisor
(she/her/hers)

Department of English
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
608 S Wright | M/C 718
Urbana, IL 61801
217.333.4346 | aivy@illinois.edu
english.illinois.edu