LSP Course Descriptions

The Chicago Quarter is an introductory course that reflects the central goals of the larger Liberal Studies Program at DePaul. Its objectives include developing reflectiveness and value consciousness, fostering critical and creative thinking and incorporating a multicultural perspective.

              *Click here to view the Chicago Quarter and Premiere DePaul publication, sent to you in the mail as early as mid-March, 2010.

              *Click here to view Discover Chicago course descriptions for autumn quarter 2010.

              *Click here to view Discover Chicago (for Music School students only) course descriptions for autumn quarter 2010.

              *Click here to view Chicago Quarter (for Theatre School students only) course descriptions for autumn quarter 2010.

              *Click here to view Honors Discover Chicago course descriptions for autumn quarter 2010.

              *Click here to view Explore Chicago course descriptions for autumn quarter 2010.

              *Click here to view Honors Explore Chicago course descriptions for autumn quarter 2010.

              *Click here to view the Premiere DePaul Parent & Family publication.

              *Click here to view the Chicago Quarter Learning Outcomes and Writing Expectations.

The Focal Point Seminar is designed to introduce students to the seminar approach to learning utilized frequently in higher education. Seminars are expected to use readings from original as well as secondary works, and to thoroughly incorporate writing. Focal Point Seminars are offered during the winter and spring quarters. They focus on a person, place, event or text. The course is taught with a multi-perspectival approach on the assumption that understanding is deepened when the perspectives of various disciplines are brought to bear upon the same issue. Through this seminar, students become skilled at accessing university resources, learn how to become a successful, independent student, and gain an understanding of the diversity of DePaul.

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The Sophomore Multicultural Seminar encompasses various dimensions of identity, including but not limited to issues of race and ethnicity, class, gender, language, religion, sexual orientation, disability as well as nationality. These issues and their interrelationships regarding the experiences of individuals and groups are the foci of the seminars. Students are asked to develop a critical perspective about the meaning of multiculturalism and provide an understanding of the historical and/or contemporary manifestations of inequality.

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