CLASSES

Roosevelt Scholars Course Scheduling

Here is information on the scheduling of Honors classes and where they fit in terms of satisfying requirements for the Scholars Program (all of these courses must be taken in Honors sections). Students should contact the Director or Associate Director of Honors for advising and course selection each semester. Transfer students may enter this sequence at various points, in consultation with the Director. At least two Honors courses must be satisfactorily completed each year to maintain your scholarship status unless alternative arrangements are made with the Director.

LIBS 111-Great Ideas I –FALL (both campuses)

LIBS 112-Great Ideas II—SPRING (both campuses)

BIOL 150-Science as a Way of Knowing—FALL CHICAGO CAMPUS; EVERY OTHER SPRING SCHAUMBURG CAMPUS

ENG 222-Writing about Ideas—SPRING (both campuses) Honors students completing this course are NOT required to take LIBS 201—Writing Social Justice.

Roosevelt Signature Courses (LIBS courses with numbers above 201, typically with numbers ranging from 240 to 270:

LIBS 2XX –Roosevelt Signature Course—Social Science—FALL CHICAGO CAMPUS; SPRING SCHAUMBURG CAMPUS. Examples:

LIBS 245 The City and Citizenship

LIBS 241 Environmental Problems of Metropolitan Areas

LIBS 248 Gender and Urban Life

LIBS 260 Ethnicity in North American Cities is a history course. History courses can satisfy either the Humanities or the Social Science oriented Signature course.

LIBS 2XX—Roosevelt Signature Course—Humanities-FALL SCHAUMBURG CAMPUS, SPRING CHICAGO CAMPUS. Examples:

LIBS 246 Arts and Urban Life. In previous years, other courses satisfied this requirement.

Seminar on Chicago---FALL (both campuses)—Any course with Chicago in the title. For example, in Fall 2004, these courses were ENG 345 The Literature of Chicago and POS 348 Chicago and it Suburbs-Friends or Foes

Metropolitan Issues Seminar—FALL (both campuses)--The courses satisfying this requirement vary year to year. In this academic year, they included PSYCH 299 Children and Families, ECON 212 Race, Gender and Social Policy and EDU 291—Issues in Metropolitan Education

Seminar on Leadership and Policymaking—SPRING (both campuses)—POS 348—Leadership and Policymaking

Honors Thesis—FALL or SPRING, either campus—HON 399  The Thesis can also satisfy the LIBS 201 requirement

Occasionally, there will be classes that do not fall into these categories. In Spring 2005, there will be MUHL 220 America’s Musical Identities. This can satisfy one of the two signature courses, or the seminar on Chicago, or the Metropolitan Issue seminar or the Seminar on Leadership and Policymaking.

Students admitted to the Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar can substitute those 6 semester hours for two of the above honors courses, in consultation with the Director.