Sculpture in the Social Field SL Course
Course Description: This is a studio course designed to provide the beginning sculpture student with a foundation in sculptural processes and theories that contribute to the current field of sculpture with an emphasis on social practice, viewer participation, and broad inclusion. In this class we will work to define a field of sculpture and then survey its aspects, including process, material, ethics, historical contributions, the current zeitgeist (look it up, it will be on the quiz), and professional practices. Students will create elementary and advanced spatial constructions using a variety of tools, materials, and methods as the above topics are…
Business Administration SL Course
Course Description This service leadership course is designed to blend academic study with community service (through service-learning). In this course the students will form consulting teams to serve non-profit organizations by applying business concepts and skills to mutually agreed-upon projects. In this approach, all parties to the arrangement are seen as learners and teachers as well as servers and served. Dealing with issues related to service projects, reflection, and evaluation will be essential elements of the course. This is not a traditional lecture course. Since the course is designed to be taken by students during their Senior year, the…
Psychiatric Nursing SL Course
Catalog Course Description: This course will focus on primary, secondary, and tertiary care of patients across the lifespan with psychopathology and/or psychosocial integrity variances. Students will incorporate a holistic perspective in planning individualized care for patients in an acute behavioral health care unit and in the community. Experiential learning will take place in an acute care clinical setting and in a community setting. Pre-requisites: NUR383, NUR 385, and NUR387. Spring semester. Course Outcomes: American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Expected Student Learning Outcome (ESLO) Institutional Student learning Outcomes (ISLO) See below for the full syllabus: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing SL Course…
Visual Art & Social Entrepreneurship SL Course
COURSE UNDERPININGS Social entrepreneurs are innovators who focus on designing and creating concrete products and services that address social needs and problems. Unlike scalable startups the goal of a social entrepreneur is to seed awareness of organizer collaboration and effective business models for creating micro-enterprise. The Chesapeake Arts Center (CAC) located in the middle of the community will serve as a secure place to foster, stimulate and sustain the “culture” of place through the management of an accessible maker-space and workshop. The culture of Brooklyn-Curtis Bay (southeast Baltimore City) and northeast Anne Arundel County is fragmented and complicated by the…
Neuroscience Service-Learning Project for K-12 Students
This packet created by Stockton University’s faculty/staff Dr. Elizabeth Shobe, Michael Tumminia, Jemila Worley, Zayhira Roa, and Melissa Cornelius, contains many great exercises and games that help teach youth about neuroscience at an early age. The Last page of the packet includes websites to learn more.
Neuroscience Service-Learning Project for College Students
This effort was conducted by Stockton University to integrate service learning into Neuroscience courses. They chose matters that were relevant to the community (such as nutrition and memory) and created this pamphlet. Another note: Stockton University’s Neuroscience Club created a successful event called “Me, My Brain, and I”. This event was conducted by college students who wanted to teach the community about relevant matters in the field that pertained to them and captivated them. The club members received a modest grant and used this to incentivize people to come learn about neuroscience (they gave away long-boards and helmets).
Service-Learning Pedagogy and Practice
California State University, FresnoLEE 144S SERVICE-LEARNING PEDAGOGY AND PRACTICE (3 UNITS)Course InformationInstructor: Dr. Steven Hart Office: Kremen School of Education Room 247Email: smhart@csufresno.edu Phone: 559-278-0319Course Website: https://bb-app.csufresno.edu Course DescriptionPrepares students to design and implement service-learning in K-12 schools and community settings. Examines theoretical roots, methods of effective teaching practice, and academic, social, emotional outcomes for student learning. Practical experience involves implementing project with local school districts.Service-Learning and Course GoalsService-learning allows students to learn about and experience democracy in action by becoming engaged, contributing citizens and community leaders. By blending community service activities with the academic curriculum, service-learning transforms education into a process of learning in which students…
Service Learning and Civic Engagement
Grades – This is a two semester course. 50% of the course grade will be determined from service participation as documented by timesheets The remaining 50% will be derived from research assignments, the course journal and online reflection assignments. Students are required to complete at least 45 hours of service work, documented by the course time sheet, signed by the site supervisor. There is no upper limit on possible service hours. Inability to meet this requirement should be discussed with the instructor. SLS2941 is a Service Learning course. Service-learning is a method of teaching, learning and reflecting that integrates community…
Community Service Learning I
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course involves students in community service learning theory and practice. Through Project Horizon, the University of Hartford’s community outreach program, students partner with non-profit agencies and programs serving primarily vulnerable populations. Engagement, reflection, reciprocity and public dissemination are the vehicles through which service learning is implemented. This course is designed to enhance students’ understanding of the social determinants of illness, community public health nursing and civic engagement. Co/Prerequisites: NUR 443 COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course the student should be able to: Collaborate with key players in the service learning setting to promote health and…
Service Learning Practicum
Required materials This is an experiential learning course; i.e. you learn by doing and by application of information and techniques acquired in previous courses. There is no text for this course, but background information and appropriate web links will be posted online. Course description Numerous SJC courses have service learning components; CO 403 is a major experiential learning experience that uses the service-learning model to develop and enhance professional conduct. The course also gives students the opportunity to produce professional quality work for pre professional portfolios and work samples. Often there is confusion about the differences between internships and service…
Community Engagement
COURSE DESCRIPTION This interdisciplinary, community-based field study “laboratory” is a variable credit elective which provides students the opportunity to engage intensively in a community based project or program with academic application, support, guidance and supervision. Student may choose to take this course for 1-3 credits in order to more fully engage in a project derived from another class as a supplement to that class; or they may take this elective independently to pursue a project of interest with the community. Many students took this course in fall 2009 in order to participate in the USM LA Cares for Youth mentoring…
Service-Learning in the Latino Community
Course Description: This course is service-learning based and provides an immersion opportunity in a real world Spanish-speaking environment. It is in keeping with the mission statement of the university “to educate individuals to think and act as ethical leaders and responsible citizens in the global community.” The student is required to perform hours of service as designated on the course calendar with a community partner. The American Association of Community Colleges defines Service-Learning as a combination of “community service with academic instruction, focusing on critical, reflective thinking and personal and civic responsibility. Service-learning programs involve students in activities that address…
Self & World: The Fate of the City
A syllabus at its best is a contract between the instructor, who commits to using cutting-edge knowledge to challenge students to develop their potential for personal insight and high capacity performance, and each individual student, who commits to stretching herself or himself intellectually and remaining open to what reflective enlightenment this world may offer. Course Description: This course explores the balance in American life between personal happiness and civic virtue, individual freedom and community responsibilities, market capitalism and social justice, and consumerism and citizenship. The implications of these democratic (im)balances for our communities and ourselves in the 21st Century will…
Youth Empowerment and Civic Engagement
Course Description What is civic engagement? Why do some heed its call, while others shrug their shoulders and change the subject? How do youth who are involved in their communities evaluate their contributions? How do adults view their efforts? What results can programs that seek to engage and empower youth show? How can researchers and evaluators measure these outcomes and their meanings for the youth, for adults, for their communities, and for society? This course will explore questions such as these, starting from the premise that youth civic participation is not just important, but imperative in a democracy. We will…
Poverty, Gender, and Microcredit
BACKGROUND TO SERVICE LEARNING AND COURSE OVERVIEW Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1800?s observed that the strength of American democracy lay in its spirited voluntary associations and emphasis on community. He declared however, that democracy and its manifestation of individualism, while a virtue, could become a vice when taken to extremes, especially in the form of hyper individualism. Several contemporary scholars have revealed that America has already reached this vicious stage of its democracy, one in which people are so preoccupied with their own concerns and successes that they have shut out of their consciences and consciousnesses the concerns of…
Project D.C.: Urban Research Internship
Institution: Georgetown University Discipline: Sociology / Urban Studies / Internship / Service-learning / Seminar Title: Project D.C.: Urban Research Internship Instructor: Sam Marullo Department of Sociology, Georgetown University Project D.C.: Urban Research Internship Fall 2001 Professor Sam Marullo Office: ICC 596 Phone: 687 3582 Email: marullos@georgetown.edu Office Hours: T, Th 2:30 4:00 and other times by appointment The Project D.C. course is designed as a community based research seminar. The central feature of the course is that each student will work in a research internship with a community based organization (CBO) or a D.C. government agency in order to undertake…
Service Learning
PSY404 07: SERVICE LEARNING Course Professor: Dr. Adolph Brown Text: Learn & Serve America. (2000). Service Leaming & Mentoring High Risk Populations. Selected Readings available on reserve at the Hampton University Library. Course Objectives: A. Apply concepts of the subfields of child, family, and community psychology while working with community organizations and agencies under the supervision of “helping” professionals. B. Apply skill-based training to issues of multistressed (affected by one or more sources of significant stress, for example homelessness, substance abuse, or lack of basic necessities) children, families, and communities. C. Correct misperceptions that you held about multistressed children, families,…
Sociology Through Service-Learning
Sociology Through Service Learning ZAP NO: 35058 / 6:00 8:20 W INSTRUCTOR: Rita Duncan rduncan@tulsa.cc.edu Office: Room 2003 Phone: 595 7629 Office Hours: MWF 7 8:00 a.m. || WF 12 1:00 p.m. || M 12 2:00 p.m. COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is a directed study at self-selected sites in the Tulsa community. within the context of field experience, students are offered a reciprocal opportunity to acquire knowledge and develop skills while providing service and assistance to the community. TEXTS: 1) Education for Democracy. Benjamin R. Barber and Richard M. Battistoni. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1993. 2) The Quickening of America:…
Community Projects in the Arts and Humanities
Email: scobey@umich.edu T, Th 10-11:30 Ostafin Room, West Quad Arts of Citizenship: 232C West Hall This course is an experiment in community-based teaching and learning. On the one hand, it is a practicum for collaborative public projects in the arts and humanities; on the other hand, it is a seminar that explores the significance of culture in community life and the promise and problems of collaboration between universities and communities to create new cultural resources. The Projects Practicum: This section of UC 313 sponsors four projects, all organized by the UM Arts of Citizenship Program. Each of you will work…
Research as a Tool for Change
4 credits Tuesdays/Thursdays 11:15-12:30: Dickinson 214 Teaching Team: Name: John Reiff Email: jreiff@comcol.umass.edu Office address: 609c Goodell Building Office phone: Office hours: Mon. 3:00-4:30 and by appointment Roderick Anderson randerson@anthro.umass.edu 609c Goodell Building Weds. 3:00-5:00 and by appointment This course is offered through the UMass Office of Community Service Learning (OCSL) at Commonwealth College. OCSL promotes positive change, intellectual growth and social justice. OCSL connects community members, students and faculty in partnerships to enhance student learning, strengthen community assets, meet immediate needs and address the root causes of social problems. By combining community service with experiential and academic learning, OCSL…
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