Program Schedule
June 1 — August 9
Wednesdays | 1 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
iPhone/Democratic Camera (CLASS: art 301 - CRN: 31869/JMS 330 — CRN: 31870) — Prof. Mike Ensdorf
Everyone is a photographer and camera phones are everywhere. Explore the creative and ethical implications of using the iPhone as an artistic and journalistic tool. Learn a new set of photographic standards, applications, and practices through individual and group shooting assignments. Students must have an iPhone 8 or newer. Roosevelt students can earn general education experiential learning credit with this course.
June 14 — 18
Monday — Friday | 9 a.m. — 5 p.m.
Social Justice Institute (CLASS: SOC 356 – CRN: 31411) — Prof. Heather Dalmage
In this one-week course, students gain the unprecedented opportunity to explore ideas about justice with a variety of scholars and activists. Investigate contemporary issues of social justice in both theory and practice. Roosevelt students can earn general education experiential learning credit with this course.
July 12 — August 14
Online / Asynchronous
Urban Ecology (CLASS: SUST 361 — CRN: 31685) — Prof. Graham Pickren
In this one-month long course, students will learn training in the research tools of the social and ecological sciences using city of Chicago as its laboratory. Monitor air, water, and soil quality and survey biodiversity and assess green infrastructure of significant sites around Chicago. Roosevelt students can earn general education experiential learning credit with this course.
August 9 — 20
Monday, Wednesday and Friday | 1 p.m. — 4:45 p.m.
Sounds of Summer: Chicago's Festivals (CLASS: HIST 326-X3 — CRN: 31696 / CLASS: HOSM 393-X3 — CRN: 31697 / CLASS: MUHL 308-X3 — CRN: 31740) — Team taught by professors Sandra Frink, Tom Kernan and Steve Migacz
This two-week course covers who plans summer festivals and their origins. Students will visit summer festivals in Chicago, and examine them as revealers of nostalgia, cultural identity, class identity, political conveyers and demographic trends. This course is formatted as an excursion-based, experiential and remote learning program.