Week 3: Explore UIC Introduction
This week (or next week, on Monday) your class will begin discussing the Explore UIC project. The goal of Explore UIC is to give you an opportunity to experience different parts of campus, connect with your classmates, and teach your peers about a new opportunity at UIC that they may have not been aware of. You will be asked to submit a proposal with your group, highlighting your project idea. We have included some ideas from your peers and instructors to help you get started:
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Academic Skills: Math and Science Learning Center, Writing Center, Burnham Hall Tutoring, TRIO, ACE
Culture & Identity: Gender & Sexuality Center, Latino Cultural Center, Newman Center, Disability Cultural Center
Social & Service: Make Mondays Matter, Student Leadership and Civic Engagement, UIC Food Pantry
Career Development: #Adulting Series, Leveraging LinkedIn as a College Student, What Can I Do With My Major?
This list is a very small sampling of all the cool project topics your group can choose to highlight for Explore UIC. If there's a topic you are excited about that is UIC related, we are excited to have you present that topic to your classmates. We look forward to see what you create!
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Where's Sparky? Winners &
This Week's Contest
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Congrats to Hilary Ozog's LAS 110 class who found Sparky — at the Chicago Circle Memorial Grove, Taylor & Morgan! Hilary's students win an LAS t-shirt along with Paola Pineda, Divya Shah, Isaac Kim, Kristine Georgieva, Daniel Godinez, and Hania Ahmed who answered correctly! Your LAS 110 instructor will deliver your t-shirt during class soon.
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This Week's Giveaway: Tell Us.... |
What is the best part of UIC at the start of your first-year?
Email us at las110@uic.edu and win a great LAS frisbee just like our LAS 110 intern, Angelina Velez.
Bonus: Add a photo to demonstrate your answer and win an additional prize! Please include your name and LAS instructor in the email to las110@uic.edu.
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What's happening this week at UIC:
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September 11: G.I.V.E Get Involved with Volunteer Experiences, Register by September 9 to participate.
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Join the Study Abroad Office in their weeklong event, Your Major Abroad series. The virtual events from September 7-10 will include faculty and advisors from across campus to help you learn about programs that fit in your degree plan. Whether you want to study abroad to satisfy requirements for your major, minor, or simply to learn and explore something new, there's a program out there for you! #YourMajorAbroadUIC #GoGobalUIC
Your Major Abroad LAS Programs Include:
Humanities: Sept. 8, 12pm
Languages: Sept. 8 12pm
Social Sciences: Sept, 8, 12pm
Natural Sciences & Pre-Health/Pre-Med: Sept. 9, 12pm
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Around LAS 110: Campus Sustainability Tour |
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LAS 110 students in Justin Wier's classes recently completed
UIC Sustainability campus tours. Students were able to explore UIC's goals to
become carbon neutral; a zero waste campus; biodiverse — how we think
about plants, animals and humans on our campus; and how to reduce our
water usage.
Douglas and Grant Halls that feature 469 solar panels and a geothermal
heating and cooling system; active transportation options such as Divvy bike
share and the UIC-Halsted CTA stop; the UIC Heritage Garden in the Quad; learning about native plants and UIC's trees — we have 5,000+ on campus — in the Circle Memorial Grove.
Students completed the UIC Sustainability Tour to learn about
Check out great photos from the LAS 110 students from their experiences:
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UIC Heritage Garden — Latino Cultural Center |
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Big Belly Solar Compacting & Recycling |
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Lincoln Hall Solar Panels |
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Chicago Circle Memorial Grove |
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Bonus: Take the 2021 Student Sustainability Literacy and Culture Survey & Enter to Win a $50 UIC Bookstore Gift Card |
Participate in this voluntary survey (#2021-0904) to assess knowledge among UIC students about sustainability. By educating ourselves about sustainability, we can see how urgent of an issue it is all around the world and here at UIC, we can strive to be more conscious about our decisions when looking at the future of our Earth. |
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Complete Your First LAS 110 Assignment! |
Complete your first LAS 110 assignment: Flames THRIVE, an orientation to Blackboard and Learning with Technology at UIC. Blackboard houses many important components to your courses — where you find readings, submit assignments, watch lecture videos, access the syllabus, discuss topics, and so much more.
In the Flames THRIVE assignment, you will have the opportunity to learn how you can connect with UIC faculty, your peers, and general support resources through UIC technology. Being a successful UIC student means developing skills for navigating the many tools that support your learning, the heart of which is Blackboard. You will encounter these tools throughout your time as a student, and Flames THRIVE can help to set you up for success!
If you do not see your Flames THRIVE certificate, see our tips:
1) Make sure everything is complete through lesson 6. You will not see a certificate if the Flames THRIVE course is incomplete.
2) The certificate opens in a new window. Allow pop-ups from Blackboard if you receive a pop-up blocker message.
3) If content for Flames THRIVE is not visible, make sure you click "mark review" at the very bottom of the segment when done. "Mark review" needs to be selected to unlock the next Flames THIRVE lesson.
4) You can access your certificate if you exited before downloading. Once you've completed the Flames THRIVE, all segments become available to you to revisit without having to go through the orientation from start to finish.
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Quick Questions about Fall Classes?
LAS Online Drop-In Advising Available Tuesdays
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LAS Advisors are available for quick questions on Tuesdays during the semester, 8:30am-12pm and 1-4pm |
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A few campus resources to help get you started 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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