Dear Illinois Student,

Welcome back to campus! If you’re still working out the details of your Spring 2016 schedule, here is some news you can use.

A number of our Grand Challenge Experience courses still have openings. These courses qualify for one or more gen ed requirements while including an exciting experiential dimension (such as projects or field trips). Taught by award-winning faculty around campus, each course centers on a “grand challenge” topic such as Health, Inequality, or Sustainability. The classes are small and enable students to interact with each other. Students who took these courses in fall have described them as a great way to get know a top professor and to make new friends while earning gen ed credit on important topics. These courses are open to all undergraduate students.

The links below for these courses go directly to Course Explorer.  

HUMANITIES AND ARTS GEN EDS

GCL 137a DOCUMENTING INEQUALITY (Art), Ryan Griffis, TR 2-3:20PM

GCL 148 THE GLOBAL DIVIDE (Historical Perspectives), Emanuel Rota, TR 3:30-4:50PM

GCL 188a DOCTORS AND PATIENTS (Lit), Stephanie Hilger, TR 3:30-4:50PM

GCL 195a Fictions of Equality: MARRIAGE EQUALITY (Lit), Julia Saville, TR 2-3:20PM

GCL 128a Fictions of Sustainability: FOOD, WATER, ENERGY (Lit), Jones, TR 2-3:20PM

GCL 195b Fictions of Equality: WHERE IS THE GOOD LIFE? (Literature), Elena Delgado, TR 11-12:20PM

SOCIAL SCIENCE GEN EDS

GCL 186c SEX ED PANIC! (Social Science), Chantal Nadeau, TR 4-5:20PM

GCL 126c IPESS: THINKING GLOBALLY, ACTING LOCALLY (Social Science), Yimin Wang, TR 3:30-4:50PM

GCL 126d IPESS: FROM FARM TO TABLE (Social Science), Ming Kuo, TR 2-3:20PM

SOCIAL SCIENCE/US MINORITY CULTURES GEN EDS

GCL 147d IASJS: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE MEDIA (Social Science/US Minority Cultures), Isabel Molina-Guzmán, MW 10-11:20PM

GCL 147c IASJS: POLICING, CULTURE & INEQUALITY (Social Science/US Minority Cultures), Jeff Martin, MW 2-3:20PM

LIFE SCIENCE GEN EDS

GCL 125b IALS: IT’S TOXIC! (Life Sciences), Samantha Frost, MW 1-2:20PM

GLC 125c IALS: THE MOLECULAR ME (Life Sciences), Jeff Moore, TR 2-3:20PM

For more about Grand Challenge Learning at Illinois check out this video or our website, and have a great semester.

Charles Tucker, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Innovation