The First-Year Program LSP 111: Explore [email protected] Autumn Quarter 2013 UPDATED 9/10/2013

Course Faculty Description On Chicago’s South Side, the 47th Street thoroughfare and the neighborhoods it concourses between Lake Michigan and the Dan Ryan Expressway go by a slew of historic euphemisms: the Black Belt, Kenwood, Bronzeville, Grand Boulevard, Blues Mecca, and the Strip. Lyrical tags coined and hummed by bluesmen, preachers, proletariats, panderers, and real estate developers. Ostentatious tags contrived by reverse carpetbaggers 47th Street Bronzeville: on the take, come to Chicago’s South Side in search of the Promised Land and all such a sacrosanct notion entails From the Great Bayo Ojikutu in the migrant imagination: freedom, hope, God, truth, survival, acclimation and at the very end of their trek, Migration to English opportunity. We will engage 47th Street as a historic landing place for Black Americans migrating from the U.S. Re-Gentrification South. We will address that which so differentiates and complicates these three Chicago miles: its blue rhythms, its bourgeois pretensions, its parochial sensibilities, and its imposed yet embraced (and fiercely protected) demographic homogeny. In so doing, we will traipse through a place once so self-sustained, one which remains palpably insulated from the rest of the Chicago cultural landscape; a 47th Street that even in its raging blue irony, quite acutely reflects its Southern lineage, its urban industrial locus, and its American heritage. In this course, we will visit several important landmarks and discuss their aesthetic value. We shall use the city as our text and consider the city of Chicago as a kind of work of art. Since to fully appreciate anything at all, it is necessary to know something about its history and genesis, we will spend some time studying the , with a focus on the people and events behind the current layout of the city. In addition to introducing you Elizabeth Millán Appreciating Beauty in to the city, this course will also serve as an introduction to philosophy, in particular to the branch of philosophy Brusslan the City that deals with issues concerning beauty, that is, aesthetics. We might all agree that the view of the Chicago skyline Philosophy from Buckingham Fountain or the view of the river from Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive is beautiful, but why do we agree? What makes a given thing or collection of things beautiful? Is a more diverse city a more beautiful city? Is a more beautiful city a more valuable city? In this course we shall explore such questions as we explore the city of Chicago. This course will give students a multicultural perspective on two communities that have been at odds for the past century over the issue of sovereignty in Palestine/Israel. Despite the apparent conflict with respect to this issue, these two communities are both significant minorities amongst the diverse ethnicities, races, and religions that Arab and Jewish Daniel Kamin make up Chicago. Both immigrant communities have established solid foundations in metropolitan Chicago and Chicago International Studies both contribute to the multicultural diversity of the area. As neither community is homogeneous, the diversity within each will also be covered. A primary purpose of the course will be to explore avenues of commonality between these two communities in order to promote rapprochement/reconciliation between them. John Karam Arab Americans number more than 150,000 today in the Chicagoland region. Tracing their origins to more than Arab Chicago Latin American & twenty countries in the Arab world, immigrants and descendents maintain hundreds of community centers, Latino Studies religious congregations, professional associations, and eating establishments, reflecting and shaping contemporary

LSP 111: EXPLORE CHICAGO  AUTUMN 2013 Chicago. Grounded in literary studies, anthropology, history, media studies, and sociology, this course will examine the range of Arab American identities and identifications in the twentieth century. By exploring topics such as immigration, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, homeland and exile, US American foreign policy, as well as popular culture, students will be introduced to various contours of the Arab experience and community in Chicago and the United States. Authors to be read include the award-winning novelist, Diana Abu-Jaber; the artist, activist, and Def Poetry Jam star, Suheir Hammad; as well as local writer, reporter, and comedian, Ray Hanania. The purpose of this course is to provide an in-depth study on the implications of gender, masculinity and patriarchy within communities of color in the city of Chicago. This course will explore: the sociological, Being a Man of Color: Eric Mata philosophical and theoretical foundations of gender, masculinity and patriarchy as they exist in minority Exploring Race & Multicultural Student populations; contemporary issues facing men of color in the United States of America and in the city of Chicago; Masculinity in Chicago Success the implications of the presidency of Barack Obama; and academic success related to gender within the system. An important facet of the course will be students plotting their own social location with relation to the major themes of the course. Rock ’n roll, reggae, funk, R&B, hip hop, and rap would not be what they are, notwithstanding the possibility of nonexistence, without their foundation: the blues. Affectionately known as the blues capital of the world,‖ Chicago has one of the richest blues cultures in the world. As a product of the Great Migration, African-American blues Michael Roberts players from Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas flooded to Chicago for work and to perfect their craft. The austere Chicago Blues College of Science & urban environment added a new dimension to their playing style: a rougher, faster, more powerful sound than what Health was played in their delta home. This course will provide students with the opportunity to explore the city through its blues culture. We will also examine the city’s history, geography, economy, politics, identity, social interactions, and cultural relations. Diversity has strong presence in the dance community in Chicago. Students will understand the city of Chicago through the study of this rich diversity in various neighborhoods with excursions to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago downtown, Chicago Moving Company in Roscoe Village, Hromovytsia Dance Ensemble in Ukrainian Village and Linda Kahn Chicago Folk Dance in Hyde Park. We will also tour the longstanding 1889 Auditorium Theater and the 1910 Chicago Dancing Theatre Hamlin Field House Theater to appreciate these Chicago historical institutions. Students will interact with culturally diverse neighborhood audiences, ethnic group members and Alejandro Cerrudo. who choreographed Hubbard Street’s ―A Thousand Pieces‖ inspired by a Chicago treasure Chagall’s ―Windows‖ and Melissa Thodos who created a Chicago award-winning story ballet ―The White City‖ about the 1893 World Columbian Exposition. This course will focus on a child’s perspective of growing up in the city as told in their memoirs by people who actually did grow up in Chicago. Students will be able to get an insider’s view of Chicago as a city of distinct neighborhoods and how the cultural forces in those neighborhoods shaped the people who emerged from them. We will focus on the remembrances of authors from three ethnic groups: African American, Jewish, and Irish; and research and visit neighborhoods that were once home to these groups. This focus will naturally lead to a Jan Hickey Chicago Memoirs discussion of the following questions: Do children have similar experiences today? If they are different, what forces English resulted in those differences? Are those influences – historical, geographical, economical – peculiar to Chicago? What significance for Chicago’s future do these similarities/differences hold? Because the primary reading material for the course will be memoirs, we will also be examining the characteristics of this literary genre and how it may shape a reader’s response to the material. The memoirs will provide reflections on the rich ethnic heritage that, in some ways, is unique to Chicago and offer students an opportunity to examine their own perceptions of different

LSP 111: EXPLORE CHICAGO  AUTUMN 2013 neighborhoods in the light of reality. Students will also read selections from other literary genres written by people who grew up in the same neighborhood, allowing them to see how one either compliments or contradicts the other. Forget the Cubs. Forget the Sox. Forget the Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks. Politics is Chicago’s #1 spectator sport. That’s because politics in Chicago touches almost all aspects of city life from trash collection to social services and taxes. Chicago’s politicians are often flamboyant although sometimes corruptible figures. (Since 1972, 28 aldermen have gone to prison.) They both delight and enrage voters and are constant ―front page‖ news. This course will Chicago Politics: introduce ―Explore Chicago‖ students to Chicago’s political institutions: City Hall, its system of 50 wards, current Craig Sautter Bosses & Reformers aldermen and women, its mayor, its elections, and its raucous history of scandals and reform movements. Students School for New also will debate contemporary political/social issues which come before the mayor and city council during the Learning Autumn Quarter. And they will explore the exploits of some of Chicago’s most memorable mayors and political ―bosses‖ from Long John Wentworth, who guided the city during the civil war and Carter Harrison I, who presided over the 1893 Columbian Exposition before his assassination to Chicago’s newest mayor, Rahm Emanuel. They will also meet some of its most famous aldermen, such as ―Hinky Dink‖ Kenna and ―Bathhouse‖ John Coughlin, ―Lords of the Levee,‖ the old First Ward, to current office holders. Chicago has a rich and distinguished place in the history of American broadcasting. From the historic live account of the Hindenburg Disaster by WLS reporter Herb Morrison to the Amos ’n Andy program, Chicago has played a major role in the evolution of both radio and television. Many radio and television programs originated in Chicago Scott Vyverman Chicago Radio making Chicago’s broadcasting past and present worth the examination. Students will have the opportunity to visit Communication Chicago radio and television stations and also the Museum of Broadcasting. In addition to exploring the current state of Chicago broadcasting, students will also have the opportunity to learn more about the golden eras of radio and television, including Chicago’s place in the evolution of rock and roll and Top 40 radio. The Chicago Renaissance refers to a period of intense literary and artistic production following the Great Fire of 1871. Authors such as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Upton Sinclair, Sherwin Anderson, and Lorraine Hansberry, and artists like Archibald Motley, Jr., Ivan Albright, and Richard Haas (along with many others) either The Chicago helped to shape or were inspired by a unique, gritty, realist depiction of the ―the city of big shoulders.‖ This course Keith Mikos Renaissance in will examine a few of these important Chicago-based authors and artists. We will read, view and discuss a broad English Literature & Art range of artistic forms—fiction, drama, poetry, painting, sculpture—to gain a deeper understanding of how Chicago has been artistically portrayed. More importantly, we will walk the city that inspired these artists, traveling in their footsteps to consider some of the locations that were important to them, and visiting a number of landmark institutions important for Chicago artists. This course will use the city of Chicago as a focal point for exploring some central questions about race, identity, and culture. Accordingly, Chicago will be featured as a physical space, as an idea, as a site for political contestation and revolt, and as a city of political personalities. To that end, the topics and themes engaged by the course will Chicago: Race, Christopher Deis include the following: how neighborhoods such as Hyde Park/Bronzeville, and the Robert Taylor Homes and the Conflict, and Political Science Cabrini Green Housing projects were locations for social scientific inquiry into inequality and racial and social Community mobility; Chicago, Barack Obama and the ―new‖ politics of race; an exploration of union protests and race riots during the 19th and 20th centuries; the incredible ethnic diversity of Chicago and its neighborhoods; and how Chicago is emblematic of the challenges facing America during a time of rapidly increasing globalization.

LSP 111: EXPLORE CHICAGO  AUTUMN 2013 From the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and and William Bennett’s 1909 Plan of Chicago Chicago: From Euan Hague to Millennium Park opening in 2004, Chicago has undergone a transformation from an industrial metropolis to a Industrial Metropolis to Geography global city. We will explore the development of Chicago and learn how the industrial city of steel mills and Global City stockyards has become a postindustrial city of condominiums and coffee shops.

Jay Braatz This course is about learning to understand and appreciate Chicago’s architecture—the techniques and styles in Office of the President which buildings are made, their functions and how they are a part of the city’s history. To learn these things we take Chicago’s Architecture walking tours each week, look at buildings first hand and talk with experts. We examine the lives and works of America’s most famous architects and visit many of Chicago's neighborhoods. We take a trip to Oak Park, tour (2 sections) Joseph Socki several of the city’s most important architectural monuments, and give all our field experiences depth by reading History of Art & and discussing issues such as how and why architects design buildings, and how the buildings they design affect Architecture people.

Although the explosion of new African American artistic creativity that was centered in Harlem has had the lion’s share of the press, as it was winding down there was a comparable flowering of black cultural activity in Chicago that began during the 1930s. As Chicago’s black population soared in the early part of the 20th century due to the Amor Kohli ―Great Migration‖ of blacks from the South, there arose with it a powerful body of cultural work in literature, Chicago’s Black African & Black music, and dance that reflected the formation of the new community that would become known as ― Bronzeville.‖ Cultural Renaissance Diaspora Studies The upheavals that would coincide with the growth of black Chicago – labor struggles, racial unrest, the Great Depression, World War 2, crumbling social conditions – would all have a lasting effect on this cultural development. Drawing on new innovations in culture and in social science, this period from the 1930s to the 1960s is an important chapter in the history of Black Chicago. The disabled community is the fastest and largest growing minority group in the United States. One out of every five individuals has a disability and over a half million disabled people live in Chicago. However, there are a large Chicago’s Disabled Karen Meyer number of disabled people who travel to the city for work, school, services and social activities. This course will Community Sociology focus on specific disability issues and the impact they have on Chicago’s disabled community. Those issues include legal rights for people with disabilities, employment opportunities, accessibility, health care, service organizations, movers and shakers in the community and more. This course examines the history of Chicago architecture within the context of the region’s natural environment. While all architecture must address context to some extent, various periods and schools of architecture are more or less engaged with the environment. The late nineteenth-century ―Chicago School,‖ for example, was both pragmatically oriented and sensitive to bio-regional elements. Frank Lloyd Wright’s residential architecture was also keenly interested and invested in the relationship between man, architecture, and nature, while the Christine Skolnik ―Modernism‖ of Mies van der Rohe expressed more abstract concepts of space and man’s relationship to the world Chicago’s Natural and Writing, Rhetoric & beyond the ―glass curtain.‖ A yearning for regional identity and a connection with nature is still evident in Built Environments Discourse Chicagoans’ obsession with architecture, urban aesthetics, and emerging ―green‖ values. Is this focus on striking buildings, beautiful landscaping, and preservation merely a consolation for city dwellers’ sense of loss or estrangement from nature? Or does the focus on urban renewal, the environment, and ―quality of life‖ represent the persistence of regional and bio-regional sensibility, even in such a diverse and densely populated city as Chicago? To what extent do Chicagoans still value the idea or ideal of communing with nature? Does our obsession with preservation reflect a loss of physical connection to the natural environment, or hope for a more

LSP 111: EXPLORE CHICAGO  AUTUMN 2013 engaged future? To what extent has the built environment become the new ―bio-regional‖ environment and identity? And, finally, can sustainable architecture serve to reconnect us with the natural world? This class is designed as an introduction to Chicago’s exciting spoken word performance scene. You will attend Chicago’s Spoken Word Stephanie Howell spoken works/word performances representing a variety of styles, cultures, and venues. By studying the stylistic Performers Communication and cultural diversity of Chicago’s spoken works/word community, students will learn more about the rich community life of DePaul and the city at large. This course examines the world famous and the work, life and ideas of one of its most famous architects: Daniel Burnham (1842-1912). Besides running one of the most important architectural offices in the city, Burnham also supervised the architecture of the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893) and designed some Daniel Burnham and Heather Smith of Chicago’s most notable buildings. He was also responsible for the ―Plan of 1909,‖ which envisioned much of Chicago Architecture Geography what we now know as modern Chicago. Besides Burnham, this course also addresses Chicago architecture in general including the work of other famous architects such as , Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mies van der Rohe. We will think, read about, and discuss architecture from a social, cultural and institutional standpoint. The class involves lots of walking tours, neighborhood visits, lectures, discussions, videos, and activities. Digital Cinema in Chicago exposes students to the world of digital cinema production. Students are introduced to the production of feature films, commercials, television shows, animation, and gaming. Students see what goes on John Psathas Digital Cinema in behind the scenes and meet the individuals that create these works of art. Students visit movie sets, production Computing & Digital Chicago studios, post-production and animation houses, and computer gaming companies. By the end of the ten weeks, Media students have a better understanding of what goes into the creation of the various forms of digital cinema. The course combines classroom lectures and discussions with field experiences.

The word documentary comes from the Latin docere, which means ―to teach.‖ In the early 20th century, this term came to describe an objective form of storytelling using the artificial memories of photography, film or recorded sound. Some examples? John Thomson’s Asian travelogues, Hell’s Kitchen photographs of ―muckraker‖ Jacob Riis, filmmaker Robert Flaherty’s Nanook, or a modern-day PBS series by Ken Burns… all speak powerfully about the marriage of the image and word. The camera and sound recorder bear faithful witness to culture, place and Documenting Maxwell Michael Boruch individual. In many ways they are the most perfect of witnesses. They know nothing but remember everything. Street and Pilsen Liberal Arts & Sciences The camera cannot lie. People can lie with cameras but this fact should not negate the photograph’s potential for recording (and teaching) truth. In class you will learn about the neighborhood’s past and present, viewing examples of others who have used the camera and words to document its cultures. General assumptions and questions will be identified. Informed by in class discussion and readings, students will form working groups and plan a general ―shooting scripts.‖ Equipped with disposable cameras (the faithful witness), with tape recorders, and with note- books, we will gather visual, aural and oral evidence (interviews) on the Market and adjoining neighborhoods today.

Jean Bryan This course examines Chicago as a food system and looks at individual responsibilities as ―food citizens.‖ Students Food Citizenship in Faculty Instructional will examine current food issues – accessibility, sustainability, food deserts, local control, local foods, food and Chicago Technology Services health, economic development – through the lens of being both a Chicago area resident AND a food citizen.

This course studies the impact of France and the French-speaking world on Chicago. It begins with the city’s France and the French- Andrew Suozzo foundation as Fort Chicago by French explorers in the seventeenth century, moves on to its permanent settlement Speaking World in Modern Languages by Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable, examines how France served as the city’s cultural model for the late nineteenth Chicago and early twentieth-century (e.g., for art collectors like Bertha and urban planners like Burnham), and LSP 111: EXPLORE CHICAGO  AUTUMN 2013 concludes with France’s continuing cultural influence on the Chicago of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Besides France, the course looks at the influence of other French-speaking cultures in the city, particularly the major economic exchange with Quebec. The course will include visits to consulates and other French and French-speaking institutions in the city. It will also explore service opportunities related to French- speaking countries (e.g., Haiti) within Chicago. Students will learn about the origins and purpose of the ―ghost story‖ as both an oral and written tradition. Ghost stories, as well as traditions surrounding death, vary based on culture. This course will explore cultural traditions on Haunted Chicago: The Joyce Bean the topics of death, belief in the supernatural, and the ghost story narrative. These issues will be explored in the Ghost Story as Oral and Writing, Rhetoric, & context of Chicago’s culture and history. Cultural traditions from the cities major cultural groups will be included Written Narrative Discourse (i.e. Día de los Muertos, Irish wake, All Hallows Eve traditions, etc.). Excursions will provide supplemental learning experiences and could include the Chicago Ghost Tour, a visit to the Mexican Fine Arts Museum for the Día de los Muertos exhibit, and a Chicago Historical Society tour of Graceland Cemetery. Students taking this course will gain an understanding of (1) the governmental structure of Chicago, (2) the socio- economic diversity of Chicago, and (3) how ―things get done‖ in Chicago. Each student will adopt a public body (Chicago City Council, Park District Board, Board of Education, Cook County Board, and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Board). They will be organized in teams of three to five, each team member being responsible for a different public body. After an introduction to Chicago geography, demography and voting patterns, each How the “City that Martin Luby team will pick a ward to research. Teams will study the demographics and politics of their wards. They will identify Works” Works School of Public Service political issues and trace how these issues are communicated to the various public bodies for action, and how the actions of public bodies can create political issues at a local level. Each team will report to the entire class, which will discuss differences and similarity in politics among wards. To provide a common experiential base, the instructor will lead field trips to events such as a Chicago City Council budget hearing and a Ward Night at a political headquarters. Guest speakers will range from political reporters to politicians. ―Landscape‖ has multiple meanings. Traditionally it meant the natural environment as seen and considered by human beings. Landscape is a construct, a human perception that cannot exist without us. Today the term broadly encompasses everything seen in the world around us, both natural and ―built.‖ Cities, too, are landscapes, the quintessential human remaking of the natural world, and they define themselves by the structures we build. What do the buildings and infrastructures, decorated by history, teach us about Chicago’s roots, its present and its future? Photographing Chicago Michael Boruch In class we will study the physical, architectural, social and cultural histories of several Chicago neighborhoods, Landscapes Liberal Arts & Sciences such as the Loop, Pilsen, Lawndale, Uptown, Wicker Park and Bucktown. How did successive waves of residents reshape the built environment? How did land use change? First-hand observations, aided by the camera, will be our starting point. Photographs remember everything and may later confirm our notions or invite a re-evaluation. With pencil and camera, we will walk the streets gathering impressions and interviewing residents. Readings and guest speakers will provide context for the neighborhoods we explore and study. Although the use of a camera is required, no prior photographic experience is needed. Several site visits will be required, not all during class time. Come explore the engaging, wonderful, and exotic world of plants! What are plants? How do plants get on with Plants, Chicago, and life? How are plants integrated into every aspect of our lives? Our very existence is dependent on plants! This the Rest of Society Anthony Ippolito course is designed for non-majors with little to no experience with plants. Plants are dynamic and interesting Biological Sciences creatures and are an integral part of our society. We will study plants via lecture material, readings, and various field (2 sections) trips to Chicago area museums, conservatories, and business establishments in which plants are the products. By

LSP 111: EXPLORE CHICAGO  AUTUMN 2013 using these Chicago area resources as a teaching tool, you will gain an appreciation of the variety of exhibits available in Chicago and their educational importance and beauty. We will cover plant evolution, anatomy, reproduction, economic and social importance. This course will explore the world of Polish immigrants in Chicago, both historically and in the present. Poles are currently the second-largest immigrant group in the Chicago area (behind Mexicans), and they have been a key immigrant/ethnic group since the second half of the 19th century. For these reasons, there is a rich story of how this community has grown and evolved over the decades, and of how Poles continue to contribute substantially to Chicago’s economic and cultural development. In the course, we will explore this story, largely by focusing on Jason Schneider Polish Immigrants in specific city neighborhoods and institutions that have been central to community life. This will involve actually Writing, Rhetoric, & Chicago: Then & Now touring some of these areas and visiting with representatives from museums, libraries, churches, and at least one Discourse community-based organization of political activists. As the course progresses, will we focus on Polish immigrants’ present-day lives, ambitions, and struggles, including some of the challenges connected to labor and U.S. immigra- tion law. In the end, students will develop a thorough understanding of one particular immigrant group’s past and present relations to Chicago’s neighborhoods, politics, economics, and cultural life—and, in the process, they will encounter a series of frameworks that are applicable to a wide range of other immigrant/ethnic groups in the city. Chicago is proverbially known as a ―city of neighborhoods.‖ The neighborhood (bounded by Lake Michigan to the east, the Chicago River to the west, North Avenue to the south, and Diversey Boulevard to the north) has been the home of DePaul University since its founding in 1898, and for St. Vincent’s parish since 1875. Postcards from the The exploration this course will undertake is from the unique perspective of the material culture collections on the Past: History of the Edward Udovic history of Lincoln Park within the university’s Archives and Special Collections Departments. These items include Lincoln Park History everything from postcards, to photographs, matchbooks, advertisements, commemorative items, business cards, Neighborhood etc. Students will study the Lincoln Park material culture items, and actively relate and interpret them in the light of the neighborhood’s history and present physicality. The physical proximity of the Lincoln Park neighborhood will allow a large amount of out of classroom site visits within walking distance of the Lincoln Park campus. It’s been said that Chicago takes life neat: no ice, no water. In Chicago, what you see is what you get. So the trains run above ground. The skyscrapers stand so tall you couldn’t miss them if you tried. And some of the city’s best art—like Calder’s Flamingo and Chagall’s Four Seasons—can be found out on the street, not cloistered behind museum walls. So it goes with Chicago’s literature, which tends to favor realism over fabulism, grit over grace, and Reading and Writing Andrew Ewell sincerity over artifice. But to what extent is the city’s character really reflected in its literature? And to what extent the City English does the city’s literature actually inform its character? In this course, we’ll look at how some of Chicago’s best writers—including Carl Sandburg, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, David Mamet, and others—portray the city, how those portraits reflect or mythologize the city around us, and how they compare to the city as we see it. We’ll write both creatively and analytically, and we’ll explore not just what it means to read a city’s literature, but what it means to make it, as well. This course examines local, state and federal representation of Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods. Students investigate what concerns Chicago constituents have, who represents them, and what those representatives do in Representatives and Zachary Cook Chicago and in Washington DC. The class first focuses on the nature of representation and the process of drawing Representation in Political Science congressional district lines. Next we examine some of the different communities and issue concerns of the Chicago Chicagoland area. We will be inviting multiple local elected officials and staffers to give presentations on their constituents and how they serve them in office.

LSP 111: EXPLORE CHICAGO  AUTUMN 2013 After the Great Fire, Chicago rebuilt itself into one of the world's grandest cities. Sculpture has been a key ingredient in that greatness. Learn how sculpture has worked to shape history and reflect the city’s Midwest and Margaret Lanterman immigrant values. Discover what motivated the movers and shakers of this youthful town to recruit talented Sculpture in Chicago Art, Media & Design sculptors from around the world. Politics, financial secrets, altruism and heroic far-sightedness all played a role in moving Chicago from the mud of a wild, provincial town to the sophisticated word-leader that it is today. Sculpture is one lever that has kept that progress moving forward. Through historical and contemporary readings and student experiences and knowledge, we will explore the social forms of overt, unintentional, covert, direct and in-direct, systematic and subtle discrimination. The period from 1900 to present will be our timeframe to analyze and measure the indicators associated with racial change – white Segregation and Racial Mark Wodziak flight, redlining, block-busting, panic peddling, soliciting, and racial attitudes and prejudice – in Chicago. Change in Chicago Sociology Demographic data will be used to bring alive for student’s patterns and forms of segregation and boundary maintenance among a set of inner city neighborhoods and residents of Chicago. These data will provide for students the opportunity to map social distance, determine where physical and cognitive maps demarcate racial change, and locate areas experiencing signs of racial change (e.g., housing, schools, business etc.). This course is intended to provoke our thinking – from biological, ethical and political perspectives – about matters such as: birth, pregnancy and labor; abortion, birth control and infertility technology; death and dying; rates of birth To Live and Die in Ron Edwards and death; homicide, suicide, assisted death and euthanasia. Since life is regional, we cannot conduct this Chicago Biological Sciences exploration without reference to a given place at a given time. Hence, we shall ask: What are the consequences to ourselves, living here in Chicago, of the way we answer the questions raised by our consideration of these issues? What alternative practices and consequences might be conceived? In an effort to understand better how creative cultural production is central to Chicago (spatially and symbolically), this course will focus on contemporary forms of underground (or bohemian) culture in Chicago. We will explore the ways in which various underground cultural practices function as both important sources of local identity and an opportunity to put Chicago on a larger creative map. Students will study a range of underground cultural practices in Chicago (e.g., alternative rock, rap, reggae, and techno music production and night clubs), alternative media outlets (e.g., radio stations and fanzines), and public art (e.g., graffiti and murals). Additionally, we will Underground Music Daniel Makagon investigate how underground cultural producers develop relationships with city officials or resist official forms of Culture in Chicago Communication support (or co-optation). We will take fieldtrips to a variety of sites and discuss the issues with guest speakers. The course will ultimately introduce students to a variety of theoretical issues about urban life, communication and culture, city politics, and community as well as the aesthetic and business practices of people who are involved with such issues vis-à-vis the production of culture in Chicago. In an effort to extend the experiential features of this course all major course assignments will require students to underground cultural spaces and practices in Chicago. These assignments will allow students to explore places alone, with a partner, or in a small group (depending on each student’s interest). Dubbed ―Psychic City‖ by journalist Brad Steiger in the 1970s, Chicago has long been an epicenter for esoteric Unveiling Occult currents, alternative spiritualties and progressive philosophies. In the 1890s, the jewel of Chicago’s skyline was the Chicago: Secret Jason Winslade famous Masonic Temple Building, one of the tallest buildings in the world at the time, designed, owned and Societies, Magicians, Writing, Rhetoric, & occupied by the fraternal order of Freemasonry. In the 1920s, Chicago was also home to one of the few American and Alternative Discourse temples of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an esoteric group highly influential in the development of Spiritualties modern Western Occultism. Chicago has served as the home base for noted occultists and esoteric philosophers

LSP 111: EXPLORE CHICAGO  AUTUMN 2013 such as Paschal Beverly Randolph, Paul Foster Case, Emma Curtis Hopkins, William Walker Atkinson, and even the notorious Aleister Crowley, for a time. Chicago continues to nurture countless organizations, communities and individuals who continue these esoteric traditions, including Kabbalists, Wiccans, Yogis, and Theosophists, as well as Santerians, Vodun and Hoodoo practitioners, and even Ecstatic Dancers and Burners (members of the Burning Man community). Focusing on prominent individuals and organizations that have benefited from Chicago’s diverse population and progressive foundation, we will study our local manifestations of these belief systems and movements, within the cultural context of modern American mysticism and esotericism. Further, we will address how this local ―occulture‖ has influenced mainstream thought, rhetoric and values, particularly within the realm of contemporary politics and activism.

Laila Farah Chicago is known nationwide as a thriving center of live theatre. Literally hundreds of home-grown theatre groups Women’s & Gender operate in Chicago, from the many new groups started by young theatre artists to internationally renowned Women in Chicago Studies companies such as the Goodman, Court, and Chicago Shakespeare. Students will learn how theatrical productions Theatre are selected, rehearsed, designed, and performed. We will also experience its present state, through research, visits with local theatre professionals, and trips to theatres. We will be focusing on attending original work and plays (2 sections) Nicole Garneau produced and directed by women and underrepresented theatre professionals, including performance artists. Women’s & Gender Through these activities, students will witness how Chicago’s diversity is truly reflected in its theatre companies and Studies productions. This course studies people, events, and ideas in the history of Chicago that have brought about social reforms that have transformed lives in Chicago and the United States. In the first half of this course, we will examine how Julie Moody- activism by women and African Americans around initial conceptions of the 1893 Columbian Exposition brought The World’s Fair and Freeman national spotlight on Chicago, which resulted in the participation of women and Blacks. In the second half of this Social Reform African & Black course, we will examine Jane Addams’ and Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s individual work and interracial coalition to found Diaspora Studies settlement houses, promote women’s suffrage, challenge segregation in Chicago schools, and end lynching and war in the United States.

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