Program design focuses on leadership training by challenging undergraduate juniors and seniors to integrate their classroom theory with professional work experience. Students spend four days a week in an internship related to their career interest and academic major, and participate in seminars one day per week at CMC s Loop Center. See the CMC campus representative for further details. The seminar investigates urban cultural life as reflected in the arts of Chicago.
Students gather data for exploration by attending plays, concerts, movies, and art galleries.
This primary information is processed through readings, lectures, and classroom discussion. The seminar operates on the premise that art mirrors the ideas and values held by a particular society or civilization and that students can be helped to read this cultural mirror more effectively. A broad survey of the major issues in the life of the metropolitan community of Chicago. The seminar treats the economic, educational, political, and social welfare systems. Also it examines the meaning of living in the urban environment, the nature of the relationship between the city and the suburbs, and the relations of national priorities to the quality of life in the urban centers.