Why Participate in Discover Chicago?
- Actively engage course material
- Participate in dynamic class and group
discussions
- Form critical inquiry skills through
a research project
- Improve college writing skills
- Develop a mentoring relationship with
faculty and staff
- Learn the value of community service
- Take a unique opportunity in your academic
career
- Satisfy general education requirements
Discover Chicago Immersion
Week begins on Monday, August 28, 2006. Immersion Week is
a mandatory part of all sections of Discover Chicago (Except
for students in the Bridge Program). Discover Chicago courses
continue to meet through the fall quarter.
Discover Chicago courses acquaint first-year students at DePaul with the metropolitan community, its neighborhoods, cultures, people, institutions, organizations and issues. Students also learn about university life, resources, and how to be a successful student. Learning is accomplished through a variety of means, but particularly through first hand observation, participation, personal discovery and reflection. The course begins with an immersion week one week prior to the official start of the autumn quarter. Classes continue to meet throughout the autumn quarter. Students select a particular Discover Chicago course which offers the opportunity to investigate that topic using Chicago as a learning site. Students will receive credit for only one Discover Chicago course. Courses offered during the autumn quarter and available to first-year students only.
Common Hour is a
co-curricular component folded into Chicago Quarter courses,
in which one hour per week students will tackle issues relevant
to the personal and intellectual transition to university
life.
Students will register for Chicago
Quarter courses when they register for their Premiere
DePaul Orientation Program, via Campus Connection beginning
late-March 2006.
For a current list of Discover
Chicago course descriptions, please click
here.
All first-year students are required to take a Discover Chicago course OR an Explore Chicago course during the autumn quarter of their first year.
Check your mail for the Chicago
Quarter brochure, which will include your Premiere
DePaul registration information in March/April 2006. |
