Engaging Civic Life

What does it mean to be a citizen of your town, country, or even the world? Engaging Civic Life examines the obstacles and incentives to fully participate in civic life. Students explore the ethical and political challenges of building better communities and solving problems. Engaging Civic Life prepares students to make informed decisions, participate in the discourse of civic life, and engage with their communities to promote active and responsible citizenship.

A minimum 16 credit hours, which include courses from at least three subject prefixes, from the following:

• ANTH 345 - Religion, Spirituality and Community
    
• ANTH 352 - Law and Order in Cross-Cultural Perspective
    
• ARTD 100 - Visual Literacy
    
• ARTH 200 - Chicago Art and Architecture
    
• BIOL 109 - Genes and Our Genetic Future
    
• CLSS 200 - Introduction to Greece and Rome: Ancient and Contemporary Debates
    
• COMM 185 - Global Media in a Digital Age
    
• COMM 285 - Argumentation and Debate  
• COMM 301 - Rhetoric and Public Discourse
    
• COMM 335 - Freedom of Expression
    
• COMM 412 - Media Criticism
    
• ECON 100 - Economics of Social Issues  
• ECON 200 - Principles of Microeconomics  
• EDUC 411 - Equity and Access in Systems of Education  
• ENGL 106 - How to Read and Write Poems
    
• ENGL 108 - Appreciating Plays and Screenplays: Text
    
• ENGL 210 - Introduction to Creative Writing  
• ENGL 250 - Writing for Social Change  
• ENGL 280 - Introduction to Professional Writing  
• ENGL 314 - Writing Commentary and Cultural Criticism: The Public Intellectual
    
• FREN 331 - Contemporary France
    
• HIST 101 - Western Civilization I  
• HIST 102 - Western Civilization II  
• HIST 112 - African American History  
• HIST 116 - Lincoln and the Civil War Era  
• HIST 118 - United States in the 1960s
    
• HIST 140 - Ireland: Famine to Freedom  
• HIST 180 - Global Power and the Middle East
    
• HIST 222 - U.S. and Illinois to 1865
    
• HIST 224 - U.S. and Illinois from 1865–1945
    
• HIST 226 - U.S. and Illinois since 1945  
• HIST 230 - East Asian Thought  
• HIST 270 - India, Empire and Violence  
• HIST 280 - Nineteenth-Century Europe: Sex and Mass Hysteria
    
• HIST 315 - Public History and Local History  
• HIST 325 - American Cities and Suburbs
    
• LEAD 130 - Leadership for Change-making   
• MEDI 101 - Introduction to Broadcasting
    
• MEDI 240 - Media Law and Ethics
    
• PHIL 100 - Introduction to Philosophy
    
• PHIL 110 - Ethics
    
• PHIL 265 - Modern Philosophy
    
• PHIL 320 - Feminist Philosophy
    
• PHIL 340 - Social and Political Philosophy  
• POLS 101 - The American Political System
    
• POLS 211 - The Politics of the Presidency
    
• POLS 212 - Congress: the Least Popular Branch
    
• POLS 310 - The American Electoral Process
    
• PSYC 330 - Community Psychology
    
• RELG 330 - Cross, Violence and Resistance
    
• SCIE 110 - The Science of Energy
    
• SGBS 102 - The Western Political Tradition
    
• SOCI 222 - Power-Based Personal Violence
    
• SOCI 223 - Community and City Life
    
• SOCI 344 - Sport in Society
   
• THEA 100 - Script Analysis 
• THEA 235 - Introduction to Dramaturgy  
• THEA 434 - Devised, Radical and Community-Based