Higher temperatures, wilder weather, rising sea levels, melting glaciers. Scientists say they’re all evidence of climate change.
If you’re interested in taking a closer look at climate change and its impact on us, consider enrolling in ATMS 140 ONL (also ESE 140): Climate and Global Change over the summer term.
This 3-credit hour course is one of the 700-plus course sections that’s being offered during Summer Session 2021, which runs May 17 through August 5 with 4-, 8-, and 12-week courses available. Check out the Summer 2021 Academic Calendar here.
ATMS 140 introduces climate change and its interactions with the global environment; surveys the physical, chemical, biological and social factors contributing to global change; distinguishes anthropogenic influences and natural variability of the earth system; and addresses societal impacts, mitigation strategies, policy options, and other human responses to global change. Other topics that will be discussed include greenhouse warming, acid rain, and ozone depletion.
This course runs June 14 – August 5 and satisfies a campus general education requirement. It is only open to current undergraduate students.
Here are some other courses that will be offered during Summer Session:
UP 160 O: Race, Social Justice, Cities (3 credit hours)
Study of the history and politics of American cities as sites of everyday struggles against systemic racialized exclusions rooted in patterns of residential segregation. Frame everyday racial encounters as surface symptoms of submerged and systematic forms of racism rooted in centuries of genocide, land theft, racial slavery, and decades of Jim Crow segregation and neoliberal exclusions. Explore everyday racial conflicts in selected cities as expressions of historical struggles for social and spatial justice, across multiple scales. Focus on the governance of routine social practices ranging from policing to education to gentrification and memorialization in public places. Final student projects will focus on social struggles against systemic and everyday racisms in a self-selected city of their choice. (Credit is not given for UP 160 if UP 199 section -"Race, Social Justice and the City” has been taken.)
Runs: June 14 – August 5
Satisfies a campus general education requirement: Yes
Open to non-degree students: Yes
ARTS 220 SB and FAA 220: Introduction to Fashion (3 credit hours)
Are you an aspiring fashion designer? Then this course is for you!
Introduction to Fashion provides an overview of the many diverse areas of interest and employment available to someone with an interest in fashion. This course will focus on the development of an individual apparel design process. Other topics include basic garment construction concepts, properties of textiles, fashion illustration, 20th-century dress history, manufacturing, trend forecasting, merchandising, and social psychology of dress.
Runs: June 14 – August 5
Satisfies campus general education requirement: Yes
Open to non-degree students: Yes
CWL 320 A, ENGL 359, JS 320, REL 320, and YDSH 320: Responses to the Holocaust (3 credit hours)
This course introduces a variety of Jewish literary responses to the Holocaust written during and after the Second World War (from 1939). The discussion of Holocaust memoirs, diaries, novels, short stories, poems, and other texts will focus on the unique contribution of literary works to our understanding of the Holocaust. In addition, the works and their authors will be situated in their Jewish cultural-historical context. (Taught in English translation.)
Runs: June 14 – August 5
Satisfies a campus general education requirement: Yes
Open to non-degree students: No
BADM 340 OL: Ethical Dilemmas of Business (3 credit hours)
We’ve all heard about companies, large and small, that have engaged in price gouging, making false service or product claims, or other unethical or professional behaviors. This course examines business decision-making and the role ethics plays in that process. Students will analyze how managers behave and whether ethical choices are knowingly made or only realized thereafter. The object is to increase awareness of the moral dimension of business activity.
Runs: June 14 – August 5
Satisfies a campus general education requirement: Yes
Open to non-degree students: No
ARCH 314A and LA 314: History of World Landscapes (4 credit hours)
The hopes, fears, imaginings, and expectations of people from the past have always been transformed into real places. In various ways, every society leaves its traces on the physical landscape, whether subtle fingerprints or dramatic and enduring structures. This course will help you learn how to read the landscape by looking at the complex alchemy that renders social values into places. The class will use informed interpretation -- in the context of social, political, and environmental history -- to transmute real landscapes back into the historical values that guided their construction.
Runs: June 14 – August 5
Satisfies a campus general education requirement: Yes
Open to non-degree students: Yes
CLVC 224 A: American Race and Ethnicity CL (3 credit hours)
Survey of American minority cultures and the reception of Greco-Roman culture in literature, film, and politics, with brief units of historical concentration on ancient slavery and proto-racism, Harvard's Indian College, early African-American poets, novelists, educators, and classicists, the Greco-Roman heritage of the Ku Klux Klan, and Civil Rights Movement leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Huey P. Newton, and Eldridge Cleaver. Other highlights include Derek Walcott's Caribbean/Homeric Omeros, Erin Gruwell's mixed-race Freedom Writers, and Spike Lee's Chi-Raq.
Runs: June 14 – August 5
Satisfies a campus general education requirement: Yes
Open to non-degree students: No
GEOG 105 ONL: The Digital Earth (3 credit hours)
Geospatial technologies such as global positioning systems (GPS) and geographic information systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly important tools in research and policy arenas and everyday life. This course will provide an introduction to these emerging technologies and to the principles of mapping science that underpin them. At the same time, the course will explore how these innovative technologies are changing the spaces and places around us, including how we interact with the environment and each other. Lab exercises provide hands-on experience in collecting and mapping geospatial information, interpreting digital imagery and the Earth's environments, and critically thinking about the social implications of the digital
Runs: June 14 – August 5
Satisfies a campus general education requirement: Yes
Open to non-degree students: No
ASTR 330 ONL: Extraterrestrial Life (3 credit hours)
Have you ever gazed up into the sky and wondered if there is life beyond Earth? This course offers a scientific discussion of the search for extraterrestrial life. Topics include cosmic evolution (protons to heavy elements to molecules), terrestrial evolution (chemical, biological, and cultural), high technology searches for extraterrestrial life in the solar system (Mars, Venus, outer planets); and beyond the solar system (Drake equation and current SETI projects). See the course eText.
Runs: June 14 – August 5
Satisfies a campus general education requirement: No
Open to non-degree students: No
GWS 225 AA and SOC 255: Queer Lives, Queer Politics (3 credit hours)
This course investigates queer lives in relation to dominant ideas about "deviance" and "equal rights." Drawing on case studies, the course investigates questions related to nation, race, economy, bodies, drugs, health, identities, agency, and action as they intersect with contemporary queer politics. Students will learn conceptual and qualitative methods to investigate issues related to queer lives. See this flyer, and read these scholarly articles.
Runs: May 17 – June 11
Satisfies a campus general education requirement: No
Open to non-degree students: No
View the full Summer Session Course list here.
Priority registration is currently underway, and open registration for all students begins on May 6. Get started at https://online.illinois.edu/online-courses/summer-session
To learn more, visit the Summer Session 2021 page at online.illinois.edu