COURSES: Affordable Interdiciplinary Grad Courses Fall 2018 via the DuPage ROE

[Ryan Goble]

The DuPage ROE offers a wide range of VERY affordable graduate courses in almost every discipline through their TIDE program. From their registration information: 

 

Course Tuition Rates: Courses may be offered for 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 graduate credits. Current tuition rates for Aurora and Benedictine Universities is $175 per semester credit; e.g., a three-credit course would have a tuition cost of $525.00. Tuition rates for Lewis University and University of St. Francis are typically $225.00 per semester credit. Tuition rates vary with the course at National-Louis University. Tuition rates are printed in the TIDE Course Catalog. Financial Aid is not available for TIDE courses.

 

This fall the DuPage ROE is offering a series of interdisciplinary graduate courses through Benedictine University. The courses are designed to inform, enrich and build upon understanding in the content areas of ELA, science, social studies, and research related to climate change. All courses are 3 hours of graduate credit and support Danielson Domain 4. The courses will be onsite in District 93/Stratford Middle School on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These are need not be taken as a sequence, but can be.

 

EDUC 521TA - Teaching and Learning about Climate Change (7844) via Benedictine University

Fall 2018/Summer 2019

Tuesdays: Sept 18, 25 • Oct 2, 16, 23, 30 • Nov 6, 13, 27 • Dec 4, 11

4:15 pm - 8pm

EDUC 537TB YA Literature: CLI~Fi An Introduction to Climate Change Fiction (7846) via Benedictine University

Fall 2018/Spring/ Summer 2019

Thursdays: Sept 20, 27 • Oct 4, 11, 18, 25 • Nov 1, 8, 15, 19 • Dec 6

4:15 pm - 8pm

 

Coming in Winter (can follow-up on the first two) Action Research for Classroom Teachers 

Spring 2019/Fall 2019.

 

DuPage ROE TIDE websites

The ROE's TIDE homepage

Registration information on the TIDE program 

Full course listings

 

If you don’t know about the massive world of CliFi, check out some of the following articles

1. “Will Fiction Influence How We React to Climate Change?” A Room for Debate feature in the New York Times, July 29, 2014
2. “So Hot Right Now: Has Climate Change Created A New Literary Genre?” by Angela Eviance on NPR’s Weekend Edition - April 20, 2013
3. “Will Fiction Influence How We React to Climate Change?” A Room for Debate feature in the New York Times, July 29, 2014
4. “Writing the Unimaginable” by Amitav Gosh, The American Scholar, September 6, 2016
5. “Scenes from a Melting Planet: The Climate Change Novel” by Carolyn Kormann in the New Yorker - July 3, 2013
6. “Cli-Fi: Birth of a Genre” by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow in Dissent Magazine, Summer 2013
7. “Climate Fiction: Can Books Save the Planet?” by J.K. Ullrich in The Atlantic, August 14, 2015
8. “Writers in the Storm - How Weather Went From Symbol to Science and Back Again” by Katherine Schulz, The New Yorker, November 23, 2015
9. “Climate change: The Hottest Thing in Science Fiction” by Dave Burdick, Grist, April 8, 2014

 

Please forward this to folks looking for an affordable way to get graduate credits. 

 

Ryan