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Healthy V Unhealthy Relationships Program, Alyssa Gehrke

Goal 3: Interpersonal Intelligence Narrative

Adolescents and young adults are going through their years of experiencing some of the most formative relationships and relationship experiences they will have in their life. It is important, therefore, that they be taught about healthy and unhealthy behaviors that can occur in relationships, that they gain knowledge in how to help someone in an unhealthy relationship, and that students understand the nuances of relationships—no relationship is perfect. We will also look at how, due to the rise of media and social media, our views of healthy and unhealthy relationships become influenced by the media. Therefore, the purpose of this …

Boundary Setting Program, Alyssa Gehrke

Goal 2: Life Skills Narrative

It is difficult for anybody, but especially teens and young adults, to understand what their boundaries are and to know how to communicate them with others. This impacts this age group (teens and young adults) most specifically because when we are young, we are both implicitly and explicitly told to mold and change our wants and needs to make others feel more comfortable. So, when living away from home for the first time and living with and being surrounded by new people who they are just getting to know it can be natural for them to want to continue molding …

The Adolescent Mind & Burnout Culture Program, Alyssa Gehrke

Goal 4: Intrapersonal Intelligence Narrative

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Project 4: Botanical Drawing In Color Pencil, Joyce Symoniak

Scientific Illustration: Course Materials

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Project 1: Drawing And Illustration, Required Research, Joyce Symoniak

Scientific Illustration: Course Materials

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Project 3: Hemipteran/Hexapods Graphic Drawings/Drawing Bugs/Insects, Joyce Symoniak

Scientific Illustration: Course Materials

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Course Syllabus | Supplemental Documents, Joyce Symoniak

Scientific Illustration: Course Materials

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Project 2: Botanical Ink Drawings/Drawing Leaves, Joyce Symoniak

Scientific Illustration: Course Materials

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Specifications Grading: A High-Expectations, Low-Stakes Approach, Erin Micklo, Eric Rettberg

Faculty Roundtable

The specifications grading model we’ve adopted for Literary Explorations II seeks to hold students to high expectations for learning even as it reduces the stakes of any given attempt on an assignment.

Why Are There Microscopes In The Art Room?, Joyce Symoniak

Faculty Publications & Research

During this presentation we will explore how working cross curriculum enhances learning within the visual arts, science and mathematics. We will discuss how the visual arts curriculum can be created in order to bond with STEM courses for student success. Through exploration we will discuss how collaboration within these courses can be used to solidify cross curriculum understanding and learning.

Following The Current: A Bioregional History Of The Fox River From The Pleistocene To The Present, Dr. Jackie G. Vanzahms

History of the Environment

In fall 2022, IMSA’s Mod 8 History of the Environment class wrote a book. Specifically and collaboratively, we wrote a bioregional history of the Fox River watershed. Although there are several waterways in the Midwest with the same name, our Fox River originates near Colgate, Wisconsin, northwest of the city of Milwaukee. From its headwaters, the Fox runs due south and then southwest more than 200 miles, before reaching its confluence with the Illinois River near Ottawa. This includes the section flowing two-miles due east of IMSA’s campus, through the city of Aurora. All told, the entire Fox River watershed …

Untitled, Einsey Socrates '24

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

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Untitled, Einsey Socrates '24

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

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Untitled, Einsey Socrates '24

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

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Untitled, Einsey Socrates '24

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

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Imsa Teachers' Thoughts On The State Of Humanities And Social Sciences, Russell Deng '22

Zeitgeist: A Journal of Politics, History, and Philosphy

If the warnings of educators, researchers, and disgruntled postgrad students across the country are to be believed, the humanities and related social sciences are in crisis. Look up “humanities in decline” and you’ll find editorial after editorial lamenting the downfall of such-and-such university’s English department or the dismantling so-and-so program’s anthropology concentration. Worryingly, the statistics seem to corroborate these anxieties. Though the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in fields such as ancient history, philosophy, theology, and more have fluctuated drastically in the past seventy years, undergraduate enrollment in the humanities has declined by over one-third since the Great Recession, even …

College And Camus, Russell Deng '22

Zeitgeist: A Journal of Politics, History, and Philosphy

Absurdity and The Myth of Sisyphus

Few writers articulate existential anxiety as eloquently as Albert Camus, the famed French absurdist philosopher of the twentieth century. In his 1942 essay “The Myth of Sisyphus”, he asserts that life, in all its manifestations, can be nothing but a nonsensical and chaotic experience. The world is incomprehensible to us and fundamentally meaningless, and any effort to understand it through logic, science, or morality is futile. As he proclaims, “That universal reason, practical or ethical, that determinism, those categories that explain everything are enough to make a decent man laugh … A horde of …

Performative Activism Is Still Activism, Erin Yoo '22

Zeitgeist: A Journal of Politics, History, and Philosphy

With the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and other social justice movements, the idea of “performative activism” has also become prominent. Performative activism is defined as “activism that is done to increase one’s social capital rather than because of one’s devotion to a cause” (1). It’s characterized as a substitute for “real” action and thus has a negative connotation. One example is Blackout Tuesday in 2020 where millions of Instagram users, from everyday teens to world-famous celebrities, posted a black square to “show solidarity” for the Black Lives Matter movement. Although this was popular in the moment, actions …

The World Is Grieving, Anon Ymous

Zeitgeist: A Journal of Politics, History, and Philosphy

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Aborting Women’S Rights, Manya Davis '24

Zeitgeist: A Journal of Politics, History, and Philosphy

On Wednesday, September 1st, 2021, Texas government officials passed a law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Since then, a plethora of heated controversy regarding abortion rights has erupted throughout the United States. This controversy is being driven by two groups: pro-choice and pro-life. Pro-lifers argue that a fetus is a child the moment it is conceived, and a large part of their reasoning stands on the basis of religion. Therefore, many believe that abortion is considered murder. However, pro-choicers do not agree that it is morally correct to force one’s belief onto someone else. With the Christian demographic …

Titans’ Fall, Liam Indigo

Zeitgeist: A Journal of Politics, History, and Philosphy

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Social Democracy All The Way Down: The Swedish Model Of Government, Shanan Riley '23

Zeitgeist: A Journal of Politics, History, and Philosphy

The welfare state in Sweden was established more than a century ago by the Social Democratic Party of Sweden, which held power for close to eight decades. The welfare state can loosely be defined through strong social programs meant to uplift the livelihoods of the Swedish people funded through a heavy tax burden. The early democratic socialists established the welfare state with the goal of creating a “folkhem”, or people’s home, in Sweden, where all people could be supported throughout their lives by government welfare programs. (1) Who the “people” of Sweden are has changed over the last century, but …

The Steady-State: It’S Time To Rustle Some Jimmies, Sofia Zasiebida '23

Zeitgeist: A Journal of Politics, History, and Philosphy

The steady-state is a political and economic theory that recognizes many of the detrimental problems caused by capitalism, while not accepting socialism as the solution. The steady-state paves its own way as a political theory with the main goal of consuming resources sustainably to save the planet and improve the lives of the public. The stationary state, as he named it, was first written about by John Stuart Mill in the early nineteenth century and was
expanded upon to include action policies by Herman Daly in the late twentieth century. In a steady state, resource use stays constant so that …

Conflicting Visions Of Socialism: Tito-Stalin Split, Franklin Rangel '23

Zeitgeist: A Journal of Politics, History, and Philosphy

The USSR being the first and most dominant socialist force in the world immediately led to all other leftist movements being cast under its shadow, especially during the Cold War. One of these client states was Yugoslavia, located in a premium strategic point and led by a popular socialist veteran, Josip Broz Tito. Stalin and Tito’s ideological differences and Yugoslavia’s unique position in terms of foreign policy led to a public split between the two countries. Tito’s critique of classical liberalism, and the disagreements that he had with Stalinism, led the USSR and Yugoslavia down different paths both ideologically and …

Uninspired, Andrew Zhang '22

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

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Cranes And Lotus, Lisa Zhong '24

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

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Poem Writing Instructions, Kian De Guzman '22

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

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Hands Of God Rendition, Jesrein Ayeyi '24

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

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Opacarophile, Sridevi Krothapalli '23

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

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Zero Kelvin: Berries, Hannah Johnson '22

Heliotrope: IMSA's Arts & Literary Magazine

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