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Pedagogical Goals | Syllabus | Tour Itinerary
Pre-Arrival Reading List | Bibliography
Syllabus
Part I: Introduction and Orientation
Friday, June 17
Participants arrive, met by faculty and staff at airport, escorted to campus and given tour of SUSI facilities and residence hall.
Saturday, June 18
Morning
Orientation Breakfast, meetings with staff and Director
Discussion: pedagogy, budget and money, schedule of Institute, communication with home and family, group dynamics, multicultural toleration, means of feedback, arbitration and problem-solving.
Afternoon
Tour of campus and facilities
Evening
Welcome Banquet with faculty, staff, and University administrators
Sunday, June 19
Architecture, History and Urbanism: Tour of Neighborhood, CTA, and Downtown
Peter Hales
Monday, June 20
Morning
Plenary Session with Faculty
Afternoon
Administrative Meetings– money and banking, i.d. cards, library cards, etc.
Photo Session
Time: 5:30pm
June 21, Tuesday
Language, Content, Myth and Politics
Morning
Reading American Institutions
Stan Howard, Chris Messenger, and Peter Hales
Using cartoons, historical paintings, excerpts from contemporary and historical accounts of election, the session will introduce participants to the methods of American cultural analysis, and provide a lively environment for discussion of central themes of American political, social and cultural life.
Readings: Sykes, "Introduction," and "American Studies and the Concept of Culture," from Sykes, American Studies. (in text packet); a variety of topical materials will also be provided.
Afternoon
The American Dream as Symbol, Myth and Historical Event
Peter Hales
Readings: Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick
June 22, Wednesday
Morning
The Fundamentals of American Political Philosophy: Electoral Democracy as a System of Thought and Action
Stan Howard
Readings: Locke", from Modern Political Theory, The Declaration of Independence (both from pre-arrival reading via our website).
Afternoon
Computer Resources and the Internet / Tour of UIC Library and presentation on library resources and access.
Time: 2:00-4:00pm
We will split into 2 groups – one group will receive a tour of the UIC library and the other will hear a demonstration about the UIC computer resources. After about an hour, the groups will switch.
June 23, Thursday
American Education as a Cultural System
Peter Hales
Morning
American Education and the American Educational System: Ideal and Real
Readings: "American Education" in Readings In American Culture (in text packet); Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities , especially the Introduction and chapters 1,2, and 3 (pp. 1-132).
Late Morning
American Education and American Democratic Ideals: Efforts at Reform
Readings: Materials on the World Wide Web ("the web") in the computer labs:
The federal education-reform program, signed by President Bush on January 8, 2002, “No Child Left Behind” at http://www.nochildleftbehind.gov/, especially the pages accessed in the red box on the left at the top: “Overview, Stronger Accountability,” etc., and the materials on Chicago's school reform history, found in the archives of the school reform journal Catalyst, at http://www.catalyst-chicago.org looking especially at the section on “Reform History”. http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/election2004/8581224.htm and Kerry’s official campaign statements on educational reform: http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/education/
Afternoon
A Superintendent of Schools Explains It All
Dr. Christopher Ward, Superintendent, Lockport High School
June 24, Friday
Morning
Roundtable on International Education
Afternoon
Teaching English to Foreign Speakers: Technique and Philosophy
Diane Highland, Program Director, Tutorium in Intensive English
June 25, Saturday
Tour of Chicago’s Ethnic Neighborhoods
Irving Cutler
June 26, Sunday
American Consumer Culture: Gurnee Mills Shopping Mall
Peter Hales
Readings: Juliet Schor, excerpts from The Overspent American; excerpts from Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (in text packet)