UIC History Department Hosts Model UN Event for High Schoolers
On Wednesday, February 28, UIC’s Department of History hosted ninth graders from Farragut Career Academy in Little Village at UIC to discuss climate change and deliberate policy in a Model UN format for the second year in a row.
Born out of a collaboration with UIC Teaching of History alumnus Cary Bolnick, who works as a World Studies teacher and History Department Chair at Farragut, and Julie Peters’ "HIST 419: Teaching Civics Literacy" class, the service-learning project served to educate both HIST 419 students and Farragut ninth graders on the four pillars of civics learning as stipulated in the Illinois Civics Mandate: (1) instruction on democratic institutions, (2) deliberation of current and controversial issues, (3) simulation of democratic processes, and (4) service-learning.
Several UIC undergraduate students volunteered to help make the event go off as a sparkling success.