Experiencing Place

How do our places shape who we are and our sense of belonging or alienation, including what we believe is possible? We are a product of our surroundings; and as such, it is important to explore the consequences of those surroundings on individual and communities’ pasts, presents, and futures. Experiencing Place examines how people and communities are shaped by their physical environments and living conditions. Students analyze how we come to be in particular spaces and places that can shift beneath our feet as time passes. Our places influence who we are and what we can become.

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

• ANTH 145 - Language and Culture in Community: Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology
    
• ANTH 355 - Native Nations of North America: Homelands, Reservations and Urban Indian Communities
    
• ANTH 365 - Mayas, Aztecs and Their Neighbors: Heart of the Earth
    
• ANTH 375 - Urban Anthropology
    
• ANTH 380 - Music As Social Life: The Field of Ethnomusicology
    
• ARTH 310 - American Art
    
• ARTH 312 - African American Art
    
• ARTH 314 - Latin American Art
    
• BIOL 106 - Introduction to Environmental Science
    
• CARD 277 - Seminar: Study Abroad  
• CHAS 310 - Leadership and Place
    
• CHNS 201 - Intermediate Chinese I: Studying Abroad in China
    
• ECON 380 - Economic Development
    
• EDUC 411 - Equity and Access in Systems of Education  
• EDUC 494 - Residency Seminar  
• ENGL 216 - Place and Travel Writing
    
• ENGL 206 - British Literature and Culture of the 19th–21st Centuries  
• ENGL 208 - American Literature and Culture of the 19th–21st Centuries  
• ENGL 414 - Classical Rhetoric and Democracy in Composition  
• ENVI 106 - Introduction to Environmental Science
    
• ENVI 248 - American Environmental History
    
• FILM 200 - History of American Film  
• FREN 330 - History of France
    
• GRST 365 - Castles, Cathedrals and Culture II: German History and Identity  
• HIST 101 - Western Civilization I  
• HIST 102 - Western Civilization II  
• HIST 114 - History of the American West
    
• HIST 120 - Chicago History
    
• HIST 140 - Ireland: Famine to Freedom  
• HIST 150 - Global History and Geography
    
• HIST 165 - Introduction to East Asia  
• HIST 208 - History and Hollywood Films  
• HIST 222 - U.S. and Illinois to 1865
    
• HIST 230 - East Asian Thought  
• HIST 248 - American Environmental History
    
• HIST 256 - Renaissance and Reformation Europe
    
• HIST 258 - Early Modern Europe
    
• HIST 260 - Chinese History  
• HIST 265 - Japanese History
    
• HIST 285 - Twentieth-Century Europe: Hitler Versus Stalin  
• HIST 310 - Immigration and U.S. Ethnic Identity
    
• HIST 315 - Public History and Local History  
• HIST 325 - American Cities and Suburbs
    
• IDEA 393 - The Evolution of Daoism  
• LEAD 310 - Leadership and Place
    
• MENA 130 - Introduction to the Middle East and North Africa
    
• MUSI 380 - Music As Social Life: The Field of Ethnomusicology
    
• PHIL 270 - Aesthetics
    
• PHYS 110 - Astronomy
    
• RELG 110 - Introduction to the Bible
    
• RELG 215 - The Global Buddha: Permeating Space-Time  
• RELG 240 - Religious Pluralism in the U.S  
• RELG 255 - Spiritual Liberation in India  
• RELG 260 - Religious Harmony in China  
• RELG 270 - Judaism
    
• SGBN 101 - The Shape of the World
    
• SOCI 332 - Chicago Encounters
    
• THEA 140 - Fundamentals of Theatrical Design