Study Guides for the City Colleges of Chicago Community
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Using these Study Guides:
Before scheduling a visit to any cultural institution, verify its current hours and dates of operation as well as admission prices and tour policies (whether you are scheduling a guided tour or leading a group of students yourself) by consulting its website and contacting the education department, if possible.
You are encouraged to bring these corresponding study guides with you on your visit, whether it is part of class assignment or for personal enrichment. Each study guide contains important links and information about the cultural institution at the top, followed by a list of 8-20 questions that instructors or students may copy or modify to facilitate class assignments or for personal study and enrichment. You are encouraged to mix and match questions to suit your area of study or interest. Most questions have several sub-questions, and study guide users can pick and choose which of these are appropriate for their purposes.
Many of these cultural institutions prominently feature temporary exhibits. Because it is the nature of such shows to be impermanent, questions on these study guides instead focus on the buildings and their permanent exhibitions. It is intended that many questions developed for a permanent exhibit may be adapted by the instructor or student to suit a temporary exhibit as well.
Most of the questions are designed to be completed by students while they are in the space of the cultural institution. Depending on the detail expected in student responses, three to five questions is the recommended length for a study guide to be used in an 80 minute class session. For those students or faculty who want the investigation to continue after leaving the galleries, some questions suggest possible short research topics. They instruct the student to use the HWC library resources. For best results, faculty are encouraged to share specific databases, such as ARTstor.org, that they recommend students use for these assignments.
Using these Study Guides:
Before scheduling a visit to any cultural institution, verify its current hours and dates of operation as well as admission prices and tour policies (whether you are scheduling a guided tour or leading a group of students yourself) by consulting its website and contacting the education department, if possible.
You are encouraged to bring these corresponding study guides with you on your visit, whether it is part of class assignment or for personal enrichment. Each study guide contains important links and information about the cultural institution at the top, followed by a list of 8-20 questions that instructors or students may copy or modify to facilitate class assignments or for personal study and enrichment. You are encouraged to mix and match questions to suit your area of study or interest. Most questions have several sub-questions, and study guide users can pick and choose which of these are appropriate for their purposes.
Many of these cultural institutions prominently feature temporary exhibits. Because it is the nature of such shows to be impermanent, questions on these study guides instead focus on the buildings and their permanent exhibitions. It is intended that many questions developed for a permanent exhibit may be adapted by the instructor or student to suit a temporary exhibit as well.
Most of the questions are designed to be completed by students while they are in the space of the cultural institution. Depending on the detail expected in student responses, three to five questions is the recommended length for a study guide to be used in an 80 minute class session. For those students or faculty who want the investigation to continue after leaving the galleries, some questions suggest possible short research topics. They instruct the student to use the HWC library resources. For best results, faculty are encouraged to share specific databases, such as ARTstor.org, that they recommend students use for these assignments.
Download the Study Guides
Download the PDF for a version that will be better to print and keep intact the current formatting. If you want students to write directly on the study guide, it will be better to download the Word document so you can add space between questions.
If you are a student working on a class assignment, you should use the study guide that your instructor provides for you. |
Download the Word document for a version that will be better to cut and paste (within or between study guides) in order to create a study guide that best suits your personal interests or your objectives for the course and student learning outcomes.
If you are a student working on a class assignment, you should use the study guide that your instructor provides for you. |
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What about ______?
There are many more excellent cultural institutions in the city of Chicago. The seven listed on this page are not necessarily more relevant or important than others in the city. The cultural institutions linked through this website and tied to these study guides are those identified by a 2012 survey of Harold Washington College (HWC) faculty as the seven most frequently used in their courses.
Many of the questions included on the seven provided study guides are relevant to almost any of the 30 other cultural institutions listed in the What about _______? section. This website can be expanded in the future to provide more study guides to connect CCC faculty, staff, and students to additional cultural institutions in Chicago. In the meantime, you can consider adapting one of the provided study guides to create one that best suits your personal interests or your objectives for the course and student learning outcomes.
Many of the questions included on the seven provided study guides are relevant to almost any of the 30 other cultural institutions listed in the What about _______? section. This website can be expanded in the future to provide more study guides to connect CCC faculty, staff, and students to additional cultural institutions in Chicago. In the meantime, you can consider adapting one of the provided study guides to create one that best suits your personal interests or your objectives for the course and student learning outcomes.