Courses

Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy, Nelson Algren and Gwendolyn Brooks, housing segregation, Charlie Chaplin, the ’68 Democratic Convention, Louis Armstrong and the AACM, education reform and urban politics, labor and industry. Chicago serves as a basis and a resource for courses across the curriculum: history, sociology, literature, public policy, environmental studies, cinema and media studies, art history, music…

Fall 2009 courses that connect to Chicago:

• "Neo-Futurist" Performance Workshop. Allen, Greg
• Urban Policy Analysis. Clark, Terry
• Philosophies of Environmentalism & Sustainability. Schultz, Bart
• Intro to Black Chicago, 1895-2005. Green Adam
• Introduction to Film Production. Hoffman, Judy
• Roots Of Modern American City. Conzen, Michael
• History Colloquium: Hyde Park & Chicago's South Side as Historic Laboratory. Conzen, Kathleen
• Feeding the City: The Urban Food Chain. Martin, Pamela
• The Brown Decades: American Literature 1865-1914. Durica, Paul
• Modern Ideologies in Architecture. Rosa, Joseph
• Anthropology of Disability. Fred, Morris
• The Evolving Social Sector:The Business of Non-Profits. Schwartz, Debra

Graham School Offerings

• The Bronzeville Experience
• Leave No Child Inside: Children, Adults, and the Impact of the Outdoors
• What is Civic Knowledge?

Look at Interdisciplinary Offerings in the Course Catalog for a complete list of Chicago Studies Courses. The courses below are just a sample of how you can Study Chicago