Innovating the World

Technology and creativity shape the future, and right now, scientific and artistic innovation are addressing rapidly-developing problems. Innovating the World invites students to analyze the development of inventive scientific and artistic practices, and use this analysis to chart and even realize future change.

Students strengthen their sense of agency to determine for themselves how to tackle given problems in any environment that is continually evolving. As agents of change, students cultivate maturity and compassion in order to appreciate societal complexity and understand the part they can play in the larger whole.

A minimum 16 credit hours, which include courses from at least three subject prefixes, from the following:

• ANTH 165 - Stones and Bones: Introduction to Archaeology and Biological Anthropology
    
• ANTH 305 - Cultural Ecology
    
• ARTD 120 - Drawing I: Observational Drawing
    
• ARTD 130 - Painting I: Materials, Tools and Techniques
    
• ARTD 150 - Ceramics I: Introduction to Form and Techniques
    
• ARTD 260 - Sculpture I: Modern and Contemporary
    
• BIOL 109 - Genes and Our Genetic Future
    
• CHEM 121 - General Chemistry I  
• CHNS 105 - China Today  
• COMM 185 - Global Media in a Digital Age
    
• COMM 250 - Introduction to Public Relations  
• ENGL 212 - Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies: Text/Technologies
    
• ENGL 224 - Environmental Literature: Storytelling for Sustainable Futures  
• ENGL 312 - Multimedia Authoring
    
• ENGL 382 - Multimodal Professional and Technical Writing  
• ENVI 248 - American Environmental History
    
• ENVI 305 - Cultural Ecology
    
• HIST 101 - Western Civilization I  
• HIST 102 - Western Civilization II  
• HIST 120 - Chicago History
    
• HIST 224 - U.S. and Illinois from 1865–1945
    
• HIST 226 - U.S. and Illinois since 1945
    
• HIST 248 - American Environmental History
    
• HIST 345 - European Intellectual History: History of the Book
    
• HIST 350 - Science, Religion and Magic in Early Modern Europe
    
• HIST 370 - Asia’s Rapid Industrialization
     
• JPST 280 - Japanese Pop Culture
    
• LEAD 100 - Design Thinking for Social Impact
    
• LEAD 200 - Social Innovation
    
• MEDI 101 - Introduction to Broadcasting
    
• MEDI 200 - Digital Media Writing
    
• MEDI 385 - Computer and Electronic Music
    
• MUSI 385 - Computer and Electronic Music
    
• PHIL 210 - Professional Ethics
    
• PHIL 250 - Philosophy of Mind
    
• PHIL 280 - Philosophy of Science
    
• PHYS 132 - Physics II (Non-Calculus)  
• PHYS 200 - Electronic Instrumentation for Scientists   
• PHYS 265 - Physics III: Quantum Physics w/ Lab   
• SCIE 210 - Landmark Discoveries in Natural Science
    
• SGBH 101 - Journeys through Art and Fiction
    
• SGBH 102 - Music, Verse and Drama
    
• SGBI 103 - Gaming the System: Alternatives in Mathematics and Logic  
• SGBN 102 - What is Matter?
    
• SGBN 201 - What is Motion?
    
• SGBN 343 - What is Scientific Objectivity?  
• SGBS 343 - What is Scientific Objectivity?  
• THEA 140 - Fundamentals of Theatrical Design