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| The Model United Nations Program is designed to educate students in the process of politicking. Competing in various inter-collegiate conferences enhances student awareness of global politics, problems, and solutions by respectfully representing all of the member states of the United Nations in Committee Simulations. These simulations provide students with much more than just a forum for role-playing. The Model UN program offers students opportunities for detailed research of individual states and rewards them for correct comparative analysis. Model UN enhances student knowledge of parliamentary procedure and its variants, similar to those utilized by the UN and other governing bodies. The Program also encourages student familiarity with the substantive product of the largest inter-governmental organization in the world. The Model United Nations Program further affords students opportunities for self exploration. Within this framework, students can test their hand at politics. This self-exploration permits students to determine if they are a "wheeler and dealer" or if they prefer to affect policy outcomes through "back-channel" negotiation. All of these educational opportunities occur in a context that introduces students to the difficulties involved with implementing "good" public policy. |
| The highly diverse University of Illinois at Chicago student body provides a fertile recruiting ground of internationally minded students. While the Program size has waxed and waned over the past few decades, current interest is up, way up! And we plan on keeping it that way. UIC students have recently founded a student organization on campus. This student organization participates in several Model UN Conferences around the globe. They hold weekly meetings on Tuesday evenings. Find out more about this organization by finding them on Facebook. This promising new student organization holds great plans for the future of Model UN at UIC. Not only are we increasing the number of Model UN Conferences that we attend, but this organization also staffs a high school conference founded and run by UIC Model UN Alumni, Chicago's International Model United Nations (CIMUN). Check out their Website! The UIC Model UN student organization prepares students for the national conference by participating in various regional Model UN Conferences and assisting in the staffing of CIMUN. |
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| UIC's POLS 282: National Model United Nations Course and Conference is designed to allow students to learn as much as possible from a Model United Nations experience. The course culminates in our attendance at the National Model United Nations Conference, held annually in Manhattan, New York. This Conference is the largest international conference of its kind, and is hosted by a United Nations recognized non-governmental orgranization. At this conference, UIC students must work diplomatically with other students from around the world in order to formulate reports and resolutions. These substantive products are in turn presented to the United Nations at the completion of the Conference. While in Manhattan we will stay on Times Square and only a few blocks from Central Park For the NMUN Course and Conference, the students each learn to effectively use parliamentary procedure through attendance at every class. Students must research and develop Position Papers and complete all assigned coursework. (Ah Yes, and they must pass the dreaded Map Quiz.) In essence the students immerse themselves in the history, politics and current events of their assigned state. In 2005 UIC represented the People's Republic of China. At the 2004 NMUN Conference, UIC represented The Republic of Mauritius and the Republic of Maldives. In 2003, our delegates represented the African Nation Cameroon. And previously, in 2002, UIC represented the Island Nation of Tuvalu. |
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