UP 494

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

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Credit: 1 TO 6 hours.

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1 to 6 undergraduate hours. 1 to 6 graduate hours. May be repeated to a maximum of 16 hours.

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UP 494 class schedule data for fall 2016
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
31061	Lecture-Discussion	BW	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	Temple Hoyne Buell Hall	Wilson, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Civic Tech andthe Digital City Section Info: Civic technology refers to tools and processes that use information and communication technologies to support urban problem solving. While open data, web technologies, and open source software are important inputs, understanding which questions and issues can actually benefit from technology is essential. Civic technology can therefore be understood as a framework for collaboration, learning, and doing, which engages students, faculty, practitioners and members of the local community. Students will participate in a two-day software development workshop at the beginning of the semester that introduces fundamental skills like database management, scripting, and version control (there will be a nominal fee). In consultation with a liaison from an organization or group in Champaign-Urbana, students will identify a specific question or issue with planning or policy relevance and develop a civic technology application (e.g., online dashboard, web application, interactive map, etc.) to inform discourse and support decision-making. In addition to two in-class presentations and a final report, students will be expected to make a trip to Chicago to attend a Chi Hack Night event.
52878	Lecture-Discussion	KSG	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	Temple Hoyne Buell Hall	Salo, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Race, Space and the GlobalCity Section Info: Course Description In this course students will explore how the global economy is racially re-segregating the common spaces of people of African descent in postcolonial cities all over the world. Building on the insights of W.E.B. Du Bois, the course will explore the twenty-first century problem of global apartheid (separation based on an ideology of a master race predestined to rule non-Europeans). Specifically, case studies of life in selected postcolonial cities will show how the forced movements of involuntary workers across international boundaries are reconstructing racialized ghettoes, slums, favelas, banlieues and barrios in places such as Soweto, Cape Flats, Rio de Janiero, Mexico, Paris, Detroit, South Chicago and North Champaign. We will use archival searches, engage in Skype dialogues with inhabitants of these places, and have walks with residents through local neighborhoods that are segregated by race, gender and class inequalities. Undergraduates will produce a multimedia exhibit of their experiences that includes a narrative, map, images and historical timeline of how poor inhabitants move through urban places in their struggles for a dignified life. Graduate students will write a 5000 word final essay, based on course experiences, comparing how the various communities of African diaspora residents are struggling for a dignified life and right to the global city. Course Learning Objectives On completion of this course students will be able to: -Understand how global political, economic and cultural processes shape racial and social hierarchies and spatial boundaries in postcolonial cities throughout the world. -Develop critical ethnographic research skills through searching digital humanities archives and writing reflective journals on their expectations of interacting with diaspora residents through walks and digital dialogues -Engage in cross-cultural debates with others in ways that value different viewpoints and expose the spatiality of race, class and gender inequalities THIS SECTION IS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
41007	Lecture-Discussion	KSU	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	Location Pending	Salo, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Race, Space and the GlobalCity Section Info: Course Description In this course students will explore how the global economy is racially re-segregating the common spaces of people of African descent in postcolonial cities all over the world. Building on the insights of W.E.B. Du Bois, the course will explore the twenty-first century problem of global apartheid (separation based on an ideology of a master race predestined to rule non-Europeans). Specifically, case studies of life in selected postcolonial cities will show how the forced movements of involuntary workers across international boundaries are reconstructing racialized ghettoes, slums, favelas, banlieues and barrios in places such as Soweto, Cape Flats, Rio de Janiero, Mexico, Paris, Detroit, South Chicago and North Champaign. We will use archival searches, engage in Skype dialogues with inhabitants of these places, and have walks with residents through local neighborhoods that are segregated by race, gender and class inequalities. Undergraduates will produce a multimedia exhibit of their experiences that includes a narrative, map, images and historical timeline of how poor inhabitants move through urban places in their struggles for a dignified life. Graduate students will write a 5000 word final essay, based on course experiences, comparing how the various communities of African diaspora residents are struggling for a dignified life and right to the global city. Course Learning Objectives On completion of this course students will be able to: -Understand how global political, economic and cultural processes shape racial and social hierarchies and spatial boundaries in postcolonial cities throughout the world. -Develop critical ethnographic research skills through searching digital humanities archives and writing reflective journals on their expectations of interacting with diaspora residents through walks and digital dialogues -Engage in cross-cultural debates with others in ways that value different viewpoints and expose the spatiality of race, class and gender inequalities THIS SECTION IS FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
56056	Laboratory	LIT	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Orta, A Witmer, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: ISID Travel Section Info: The aim of the course is to research the sustainability of a student-led international development project. Classroom activities preceding travel will teach the skills needed to undertake research of the project design and implementation (performed by others) to assess the effectiveness of the process. Student participants will visit the project site in Lumbisi, Ecuador, and conduct research to evaluate both the technical design process of Engineers Without Borders-UIUC volunteers and the community engagement and interaction with the process. Course prerequisite: ENG498/ANTH399/CHLH494/GLBL499/UP494 Investigating Sustainable International Development