“Making Connections”: A Service Learning Liberal Arts Capstone Course

This multidisciplinary capstone course is designed to be a culminating experience for a liberal arts education. Students from a range of majors will work, in groups, on a community service project. They will explore connections among their various disciplines and between their liberal arts college experience and issues in the off-campus community. The large field work component will be carried out as part of Goucher’s partnership with the HARBEL Community Organization in northeast Baltimore City. Focus of the project for spring ’98 will involve developing proposals for the possible rehabilitation of the historic Arcade Theatre in Hamilton so that it…