Business Administration Department Senior Reflective Tutorial
Overview: This course allows students to complete a 100 hours field-based, real world experience, prompting them to reflect on their practical training within their concentration of Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Management or International Business. Issues pertaining to all aspects of professional development are discussed in the weekly RFT sessions, with particular emphasis on the challenges of transition from student to civic-minded professional. Senior Learning Community: As the ultimate goal of the Senior Program, all Business seniors merge the breadth of a liberal education with the depth of specialized knowledge into a real-world applied practice. As such, the Senior Learning Community in…
The Road to the White House 2008
Course Objective: To study the history and politics of U.S. presidential campaigns, including an intensive internship in New Hampshire leading up to the first-in-the-nation primary. In our seminars we will discuss topics such as the history of the presidential nominating process, the national conventions, voter turnout, campaign finance, third party and independent candidates, the electoral college, and the nature of presidential campaigns. This is a six-credit course: three credits for the presidential campaign internship and three credits for the seminar about presidential campaigns. Course Meeting Times and Locations: Note that this is a by arrangement course. We will have our…
Field Methods in Ethnomusicology: Music and Islam in West Philadelphia
Music 650-250 Field Methods in Ethnomusicology: Music and Islam in West Philadelphia This is a syllabus in modification through the course of the semester as we creatively respond to the requirements of our community partners – this kind of flexibility is supported by web technology, rather than paper, because updating is pretty easy. So the syllabus is different from the start of the semester. What you see is literally reflective of where this project is now on March 21, 2008! Blackboard is an indispensable tool in this class. To access use the following url: www.courseweb.library.upenn.edu To login you need your…
Colonial America
HIST 367 ? Colonial America A Designated Civic Learning/Mentoring Course Course Description and Objectives: Hist 367 is an undergraduate, upper level history course that examines the evolution of American colonies from initial European exploration to mature provincial societies. Emphasis is placed on the interactions between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans (and their descendants), and on the development of distinctive regions. This course will enhance your historical knowledge, teach you to locate and analyze primary materials, dissect secondary sources, evaluate complex issues, express yourself clearly and convincingly, and present your research in a scholarly fashion. Students enrolled in Hist 367 have…
Tax Concepts
Textbook: CONCEPTS IN FEDERAL TAXATION: 2008 EDITION, Murphy, Higgins (Required) Internet access or a copy of the Internal Revenue Code and Regulations most recent edition. Summary: An introduction to the federal income tax structure as it applies to the individual taxpayer. The major focus of this course will be upon the conceptual and legal underpinnings of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). Course Objectives and Student Responsibilities To learn and refine methods of reasoning and analysis, and apply these to problems arising in an individual’s situation, using the following steps: a) Applying the rules of law (IRC) to specific facts, either…
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…
Animal Cognition & Consciousness
PHIL/COGS/BIOL 314 PHIL 414 Animal Cognition & Consciousness with laboratory component Required Readings: Rader & Radner, Animal Consciousness Dennett, Kinds of Minds Allen & Bekoff, Species of Mind Bekoff, The Cognitive Animal Altmann 1974 Observational study of behavior Many articles and excerpts posted on the Blackboard site. Be sure you can access Blackboard! Course Description: This course examines the notions of intelligence, cognition, reasoning, consciousness, and mental content as they appear in the philosophical views and empirical studies of animals in individual and social contexts. Cognitive ethology strives to scientifically measure the extent and limits of the mental lives of animals. We will…
Working for Global Justice
Overview: Goal of the course: to assist you to integrate a commitment to social justice into your lives and careers. You will learn: to advocate for social justice to use your professional skills and knowledge to work for social justice. As a result of all SEM 300 courses … You will learn the difference between doing charity and working for justice through systemic change. You will show that you understand this difference by producing projects and participating in advocacy work that has long-term goals. You will demonstrate a sustained commitment to the practice of social justice through community-driven projects designed…
Service Learning in Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
Stevens, C. A. (2008). Service learning for health, physical education and recreation: A step-by-step guide. Leeds: Human Kinetics. This unique workbook puts students in control by providing step-by-step guidance through the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating a service-learning project. Service Learning for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation: A Step-by-Step Guide directs university and high school students through an easy-to-follow five-step process for completing service-learning projects. Consistent with principles from organizational development, this process begins with choosing a project and building a team and progesses to development, execution, and assessment—teaching students best practices they can replicate in subsequent projects. https://www.worldcat.org/title/service-learning-for-health-physical-education-and-recreation-a-step-by-step-guide/oclc/316128871
Student Vote
An initiative of the student PIRGS (public interest research groups), StudentVote.org is a voter registration site that allows visitors to get voter registration forms by email. The site also includes a widget that campuses can customize for their own websites so students can register through their own school’s site.
Volunteering in America
This website, from the federal Corporation for National and Community Service, offers the most comprehensive research on U.S. volunteering ever assembled. Research findings on the site include volunteer rates, economic impact, and information on “voluntourism” (long-distance volunteering), with breakdowns by state, region, and major city as well as national data. The site also includes links to volunteer opportunities, tools for volunteer recruitment and retention, and other recent government studies of volunteerism among college students and others.
What’s Race Got To Do With It?
Campuses still struggle to attain diversity, create equity, close achievement gaps, and enhance student success for everyone. California Newsreel has produced this new tool to support your diversity goals.
Have You Heard From Johannesburg?: Apartheid and the Club of the West.
shows how a nation-wide campaign of civil disobedience, campus protest and finally legislative action, spearheaded by African American leaders spawned by the Civil Rights Movement, reversed American foreign policy toward South Africa in the face of the most right wing administration in our history.
Rock the Vote
A comprehensive voting website — includes registration information, models of political and social activism, and links to election news. http://www.rockthevote.org
ServiceVote
ServiceVote is Youth Service America’s campaign to engage young people in the political process, beginning with voting
How Higher Education Is Integrating Diversity and Service Learning: Findings from Four Case Studies
With the generous support of the James Irvine Foundation, California Campus Compact conducted a research study (conducted by Dr. Lori Vogelgesang) exploring how independent colleges and universities were integrating service learning and diversity and identified some “best practices.”
Impact of Service-Learning: A Review of Current Research
A research brief from Learn and Serve analyzing the results of service-learning. Download a PDF here: The Impact of Service Learning
Service-Learning in the Disciplines
A series of books on service-learning within specific disciplines, developed by Campus Compact and AAHE and available from Stylus Publishing. https://styluspub.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/9781563770050/Service-Learning-in-the-Disciplines
Campus Compact Service Statistics
A concise summary of statistics on campus-based service, service-learning, and civic engagement, gleaned from Campus Compact’s annual member survey.
Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & Class is an interdisciplinary examination of the historical institutions, forces and movements that have shaped the status, identities and conditions of multicultural women. While many of the assigned readings are based in the United States, we will also look at global connections and contexts. We will emphasize relationships between theory, practice/action and multiple perspectives.
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