LIBSPOSSOC 245: City and Citizenship 04142004

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LIBS/POS/SOC 245 City and Citizenship04/14/2004

• Course Agenda this evening.
• Readings/Lecture.
• Office hours Adding 830 to 900pm from now
  until end of semester.
• Outline due 04/21/2004. Paper due 05/05/2004.
• Plagiarism. Electronic copy must be submitted via
  e-mail or disk w/n 48 hours of paper due date.
  No exceptions.
• Presentations.
• All presentations graded 10 point scale.
• If you get bumped .5 to presentation score, no
  show scheduled day -.5 - .7 (bumping .5 applied
  retroactively).
• All presentations as of 04/07/2004 have been
  graded sent via e-mail or get from me during
  break.
• Final Exam May 12.
• Comprehensive - approx. 75 post midterm.
• Final Exam review guide distributed April 28,
  discussed May 5.

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LIBS/POS/SOC 245 City and Citizenship04/14/2004

• Course agenda - continued.
• Extra Credit Options
• Can add up to 5 points to midterm exam score.
• 76 or more only one extra credit assignment.
• 75 or less can submit two.
• At least two pages double spaced - at least 3
  external sources.
• Possible Options.
• Urban field study report.
• Attend lecture, press conference, demonstration,
  concert, sporting event and relate to ideas
  raised in readings/lecture.
• Go to a historic monument/museum/park and write
  up report.
• Outside sources must be current 2002-2004.
• Not the same subject as presentation or research
  paper.

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LIBS/POS/SOC 245 City and Citizenship04/14/2004

• Course agenda - continued.
• Outsourcing - update.
• Research - Alternative media sources.
• Ethnic enclaves and elections. Cuban-American
  2004 Example.
• Urban Sprawl (continued).
• Suburbanization.
• Metropolitan Governance (this week and next).
• Chicago Depression to Post WWII.
• CHA Development and problems.
• War mobilization and city development.

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LIBS/POS/SOC 245 City and Citizenship04/14/2004

• Globalization and Urban Spaces.
• John Ralston Saul article.
• Harpers.
• Article is available via EBSCO. Author search
  Saul, John Ralston.
• Outsourcing.
• Modern day muckraking.
• CNN List of outsourcing companies.
• US Government support for repressive states.
• Chile 1973 case study.
• Human Rights Watch (USA).
• Newsweek April 19 52-53.
• Research - Alternative Media Sources.
• Chicago Indy Media Center. Guerrilla News
  Network.
• Weeklies Reader, New City, CityLink.
• Suggestions?

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LIBS/POS/SOC 245 City and Citizenship04/14/2004

• Participation.
• Voting.
• Course website.
• Rock the Vote.
• National Hip Hop Political Convention.
• Project Vote Smart.
• Presidential Candidates.
• Urban Policy?
• Bush.
• Kerry.
• Kucinich.
• Nader.
• Sharpton.
• We will discuss various candidates urban policy
  proposals in detail week 13.
• Civil Disobedience/Political Movements.

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LIBS/POS/SOC 245 City and Citizenship04/14/2004

• Functional Fiefdoms.
• Education Policy and Institutions.
• Cities share responsibility with counties and
  special districts for education.
• Federal guidelines and funding.
• Chicago public school system.
• Catalyst. CPS.
• Inequality and education.
• CNN Video (2 minutes) Lou Dobbs 04/12/2004.
• Part of week long series on education.
• Question How to even out quality of education?
• Presentation re education/literacy.

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LIBS/POS/SOC 245 City and Citizenship04/14/2004

• Urban Sprawl.
• Sprawl as distinguishing feature of US urban
  development.
• Chicagoland and sprawl.
• Article Methods for Dealing with the Stress
  Urban Expansion is Placing on Metropolitan
  Transportation Systems.
• NIPC Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission.
• Map of sprawl in Chicago region (population).
• Map of sprawl in Chicago region (employment).
• In-migration figures 2001.
• Unemployment rates.
• 2030 Forecast.
• Population Change.
• Employment Change.

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LIBS/POS/SOC 245 City and Citizenship04/14/2004

• Urban Sprawl.
• NIPC Example of Metropolitan Planning Commission
  - covered next week in HV.
• Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will
  counties.
• 34 Commissioners.
• Appointed by Governor of Illinois, 6 county
  boards, assembly of suburban mayors, mayor of
  Chicago, and various regional governmental
  organizations.
• 23/34 elected officials.
• Funding.
• Federal and State grants.
• Contributions from local governments.
• No enforcement power.
• Planning and recommendations.
• Presentation re Governance Chicago.