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Encounters and Intersections Part 2. United States Culture : A his-
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Identitiesand Communities inAmerica: f - · i Part ContemporaryAmerican Cul-
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AnInterdisciplinaryInvestigation 7 J ture: intersections, confusions, reso-
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/ Part 4. The Tour in the states
·· - July 14 - Travel to the Southwest-
»» personalized work and informed ac- Albuquerque-New Mexico

their cultures: beginning with the cess to the cultural resources and ac- -July15 -Santa Fe- New Mexico
streets of the UIC neighborhood, ex- tivities of the city. The participants -July16-Tour of PueblodeTaos,Taos,
tending out to the rituals of America’s were students but also participants in travel toJicarilla Apache Reservation
4th of July birthday party, to theshop- discussions, study groups, and infor- -July 17- Mesa Verde National Park,
ping malls and industrial parks and , mal teaching and learning sessions. Cortez -Colorado
eventually, to the wider geography of They had also the opportunity to work -July18- Durango -Colorado
the continental United States (tour). on specific projects of their own di- -July 19- travel through the Rocky
rectly related to the content and the Mountains to Silverton -Colorado
The Institute (ASSI) focused on a purpose of the Institute. -July 20- Deserts and Reservations:
dynamic, process-oriented definition the Navaho Nation
of American culture, and sceked to The place :University of Illinois -July 21-Air Travel toSan Francisco,
look at the ways this process of en- at Chicago California
counter, intersection,conflict and ne- -July 22-San Francisco and history
gotiation is imbedded in significant University of Illinois at Chicago ( -July23- Coastal Ecologiesof Califor-
cultural artifacts- books, poems,paint- UIC), located on 204 acres in Chica- nia: Conflict between Human and
ings, popular and folk music and lit- go’s Near West Side neighborhood, is Natural
erature, law and regulation -and en- one of the oldest and one of the new- - Travel toSanta Cruzthe Boardwalk
acted in the social events of daily life, est of Chicago’s institutions of higher and the PacificOcean.
historical and contemporary:in poli- education. In 1946 University of Illi- -July 24- Air Travel to Baltimore -
tics and law, in rituals, arts and cul- nois established a two-year Chicago Washington DC
ture, in family life, in religion and in Undergraduate Division on Navy Pier -July 25- The Capital of the United
groupactivity. m - . . . . to meet the educational needs of re- States- Tour of Washington Monu
The aim and hope of the Institute turning World War II veterans. That ments ms
was to allow the 30 participantsfrom site was succeeded in 1965 by a new -July 26- The University of Virginia
26countriesworldwide possess asolid campus known as the Universityof II- and Monticcllo, the university con-
groundingin the most recentinterdis- linois atChicago Circle,just southwest ceived and designed by Thomas
ciplinary literature on American cul- of Chicago’sLoop.In 1982, the Medi- Jefferson, author of the Declaration
ture and life, with an active engage- cal Center and Chicago Circle cam- of Independence
ment with the central issues, with a puses merged, forming UIC. -July 27- Washington DC -Meeting
freshened sense of the interdepend- UIC, one of three University of Illi- with Fulbright / State Department at
ency of the United States and the noiscampuses ( the others at Urbana- headquarters.Final Farewell Banquet.
globe,arid -perhapsmost importantly Champain and Springfield),is the larg-
-with new pedagogical tools theycan cst institution of higher learning in The Faculty of the American
use to teach American culture as part Chicago area. It is recognized by its Studies Summer Institute:
of thecurricula in world studies, in his- peersasa center of top-qualityeduca-
tory, in English and American lan- tion, research and publicservice.UIC, Dr Peter Bacon Hales holds degrees
guage and literature,and the like. has over 24,000 students ( approxi- in American literature, photography
mately66 percent undergraduate; 34 and American Civilization from
Notsimplyalocation, Chicagoserves percent graduate and professional Haverford College and Universityof
as a backdrop and a test case for the students) and about 11,000 full-time Texas at Austin.He has written three
Institute’s intensive intellectual activ- faculty and staff members. The Uni- major bookson American Culture
ity.Drawingupon itsresources,includ- versity offers bachelor’sdegreesin 92 Silver Cities : The Photography of
ing its teachers, its authors, its politi- academicareas, master’s degreesin83 American Urbanization lliiilitib
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cians, its experts and its passionate disciplines, and doctorates in 57 -Atomic Spaces: Living on the Man- :
residents, theInstitute strives tostrike specializations , hattan Project,
a balance between close study of his- -William HenryJacksonand theTrans
toricaland cultural materials in a class- //Æ pfe Syllabus formation of the American Land-
room setting with faculty and guest Part1.American Culture:belief,arti- scape
lecturers,and the enlivening of these facts and acts »»
lessons through intensive fieldstudy,
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