Week 8: Learning More About UIC!
With the first group's Explore UIC projects complete, we look forward to learning more about the unique resources and experiences you have discovered through your LAS 110 projects this semester. This week, LAS 110 students will either continue learning about UIC resources through Explore UIC projects or will be interviewing an LAS faculty member as we Connect with UIC Faculty!
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Contest Winners and This Week's Challenge |
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This Week's Challenge!
To participate in this week's LAS 110 challenge, tell us about an Academic Resource you learned about during the Explore UIC presentations in your class and how you plan to utilize the resource during your time at UIC. Email us at las110@uic.edu.
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Winners of this week's LAS 110 Challenge will receive one of our great College of Liberal Arts and Sciences hats! |
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What's happening this week at UIC:
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The Health Professions Forum continues this week with "Future in Healthcare" a program featuring health professionals in various career roles that focus on addressing a wide range of health topics that impact communities and populations, especially during this pandemic.
Join LAS Pre-Health and Career Development on Thursday, Oct. 14, 3-4:15pm, Zoom.
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Students in Noah Glaser’s class square off in a series of 1-on-1 CliftonStrengths matchups. Winners are unclear but students demonstrated great feats of teamwork in restoring tables to their original configuration!
(Clockwise from left: Bella Escutia, Naty Madrigal, Vivi Trujillo, Hania Ahmed, Paul Sackman, Maya Bown, Lizbeth Barron, and Eric Kim)
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Above: Students in Hilary Ozog's class review their CliftonStrengths assessments and participate in a writing challenge. |
Throughout the semester, we will feature LAS110 classes engaging in a variety of activities inside and outside of class. If you have any pictures to share of your group working on Explore UIC projects, send to your instructor or las110@uic.edu to be featured in LAS 110 News!
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Explore UIC Project Ideas: Career Development |
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LAS Career Development and Internships offers many resources and opportunities for LAS students to connect and explore professional interests. As you continue to discover which LAS major is a good fit for you, our LAS Career Development team offer many ways to support your exploration — through their self-guided online resources, career and internship advising, and opportunities for internship academic credit. LAS Career Development regularly offers major and career exploration workshops, events, and experiential learning programs. Find out how to begin the process of exploring majors and career paths further through visiting some of their resources:
Career Development is an ongoing process of Reflection, Research, Exposure and Experience. You will be participating in this process throughout UIC and beyond, and we hope these resources will help build a foundation for self-discovery in the coming years at UIC.
Stay tuned, as we will be diving into further career exploration activities in the next few weeks in LAS 110.
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Mandatory First-Year Advising Appointments are in full swing. Check your email, complete the MFA survey, and schedule your appointment today! |
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Chicago is Your Learning Laboratory |
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Open House Chicago, October 16 & 17 |
Open House Chicago — a free public festival that offers self-guided history and architecture trails throughout Chicago, talks and programming, and behind-the-scenes access to architecturally, historically and culturally significant sites across the city is happening throughout October. On Saturday, Oct. 16 & Sunday, Oct. 17, Open House Chicago will feature in-person site visits around Chicago's neighborhoods.
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Backward River Festival: October 16 & 17, 11am-7pm
Join the UIC Freshwater Lab and Political Ecology Group on Saturday, Oct. 16 and Sunday, Oct. 17 for a weekend of community, dance, music, food and connection. Connect to the river and each other through curated activities and engaging art installations.
The festival brings to life The Backward River — a digital storytelling project that sheds light on who benefits from the Chicago River, who bears the burden and how it is experienced differently depending on where you live in the city.
Come reclaim your water and foster a sense of joy at this free community event! Learn more. FYI: LAS Professor Rachel Havrelock, Director of the Freshwater Lab, will be joining Noah Glaser's LAS 110 class for the Connect with UIC Faculty interview!
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A few campus resources to help you to be successful at UIC:
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UIC | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
601 S. Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607 | las.uic.edu
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