Multicultural Issues in Urban Affairs
URBAN SEMESTER PROGRAM Multicultural Issues in Urban Affairs HE470 Seminars are normally embedded in the site visits. 3 credits This course uses New York City as a classroom. The landscape, built environment, and people in it are our texts. A great teacher, Paolo Freire, once said that we need to learn how to “read the word and the world.” This is what we will do in this course with an emphasis on reading the world. Two parts direct our attention. The first part focuses us on the formation and development of this multicultural city. We will traverse lower Manhattan…
Poverty and Homelessness in America
Course Description This two quarter course will combine formal academic study on the topic of poverty and homelessness in the United States with an internship experience in a shelter-providing agency either in Santa Clara County or San Mateo County. Students will read weekly selections of articles and books relating to analyses of and personal experiences with poverty and homelessness in American cities. Perhaps the most important part of the course is the internship each student will be involved in at a local homeless shelter. Students will engage in a directed social service-type internship and will be expected to devote about…
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…
Community Involvement
Professors Jim Ostrow, Behavioral Sciences Department Maureen Goldman, English Department Readings Packet under course name sold in bookstore: Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace (New York: Crown, 1995) David Bollier, Aiming Higher (Washington, D.C.: American Management Association, 1996) Additional readings TBA In this course, students engage in public service within agencies or organizations in the Greater Boston area. In their written work and class discussions, they will reflect on both the purposes of that work as well as on its limits as a response to specific needs within the community and more general problems of social justice. Students will also explore issues…
THE GOOD SOCIETY
WEB PAGES: www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~akeene and www.umass.edu/csl THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL DO: Love the earth and the sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and the crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyranny and argue not concerning God. …Walt Whitman A holistic approach to education would recognize that a person must learn how to be with other people, how to love, how to take criticism, how to grieve, how to have fun as well as how to add and subtract, multiply and divide It would address the…
Teaching Movement in the Schools
Institution: University of Montana Discipline: Dance / Education / Physical Education Title: Teaching Movement in the Schools Instructor: Karen Kaufmann Model: Discipline-based Rating: 5 out of 5 DA 427 Teaching Movement in the Schools Course Requirements Class Attendance Attendance is extremely important. More than two absences will lower your grade. If you miss a class, it’s your responsibility to get the material you missed from someone else in the class. Lesson Plans (15%) Write 3 original “practice” lesson plans (specify age levels) “Space” due: September 18 “Time” due: October 1 “Energy” due: October 10 (peer assessment) Mid term Exam (20%)…
Opera Workshop
Opera Workshop INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Pearl Yeadon Emy OFFICE: Ellis 218 SMSU: 836-5881 Cell: (417) 496-6460 Email: pmy595f@smsu.edu COURSE DESCRIPTION Opera Workshop (MUS 193, 293, 393, 493) is designed as a training medium for young singers. The fundamentals of stage technique, movement, directing, and acting for the singer are emphasized, as well as basic technical training in set design, costumes, makeup and props. Opera solos, ensembles, scenes, one-acts and full length productions are prepared and performed on campus. The SMSU student is introduced to varying historical periods of opera, as well as different styles from verismo to modern atonal music. All…
Rethinking Urban Poverty
RETHINKING URBAN POVERTY: Philadelphia Field Project Rethinking Urban Poverty: Philadelphia Field Project is an interdisciplinary service learning course offered through the Department of Geography at Penn State. The objectives of the course are to understand why existing poverty policies in the US have failed, and to develop an alternative framework for action in cooperation with residents in a poor neighborhood of West Philadelphia. Each year we select about 10 students to participate in a yearlong course of 3 to 6 hours of credit offered in three parts. Part 1: Spring Semester (1-3 credits) – Social theories of poverty. Readings in…
Roles of Watershed Councils in Improving Water Quality in American Heritage Rivers
ES192 Spring 2003 Roles of Watershed Councils in Improving Water Quality in American Heritage Rivers The purpose of this class is to provide experience in cooperative problem-solving efforts to address a current environmental issue. We have found this service learning approach to be a helpful preparation for the independent research you will undertake for your senior thesis and for the kind of work many of our graduates do. In 1999, the RI Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) began to decentralize some of its environmental protection efforts to the watershed level. This effort has been encouraged nationally by the US…
The School and Society
Philosophy 105: The School and Society Contact Information Lisa Heldke Old Main 106A x7029 heldke@gac.edu Office Hours M 3:30-4:30, T 9:00-10:00, W 2:30-3:30, and By appointment (I encourage you to come talk to me at any point, about the issues the class is discussing, or for consultation on papers or help with understanding a reading assignment. Feel free to schedule an appointment if none of these times works for you.) Course Texts John Dewey, Democracy and Education W.E.B. DuBois, The Education of Black People DuBois, “The Talented Tenth” (on the web at http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/dubois.htm) Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Deschooling…
Taking Animals Seriously
Taking Animals Seriously Kathie Jenni / University of Redlands Course Description: A four week long internship at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah that is grounded in study of the history, issues, philosophies, and strategies of the animal welfare movement. One and one half days per week are devoted to class time; the remaining three and one half days each week are devoted to full time work in all aspects of the Sanctuary: cleaning, feeding and watering, socializing with and exercising animals, veterinary care, adoption services, humane education, and community outreach. Students may specialize in one facet of animal…
Environmental Politics
Political Science 326 Environmental Politics Ecological Ethics/Activism/Justice University of Hawai’i West 0ahu Instructor: Joshua Cooper Classes: Thursday 7:00 p.m. 9:45 p.m. Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. or upon appointment Office Phone Number: 984 3331 Email: Joshua@hawaii.edu “Only when the last tree has died and the last river poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” -Cree Elder “This we know. The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites family. All things are connected. Whatever…
Strategies for Sustainable Development
STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE POLS 104. URBAN POLICY: STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT WINTER 2002 Luis Ricardo Fraga, Associate Professor Office: Encina Hall, Rm. 444, 723 5219, Luis.Fraga@stanford.edu COURSE DESCRIPTION This course focuses on the identification and consideration of strategies for sustainable development in contemporary central cities in the U.S. Sustainable development is understood to include at least five distinct types of resources: human capital, social capital, fiscal capital, policy capital, and political capital. When major cities began to develop in the U.S. in the 1840s, the concentration of peoples, fiscal capital, industries, businesses, and political power presented…
Community Psychology
Community Psychology Instructor: Prof. Lynne Bond Psychology 295, Fall 2001 Office: 334 John Dewey Hall Tues & Thurs 11 12:15 Office hours: Tues. 1:30 2:30; Wed. 11 12 or by appointment Phone: 656 1341 || Email: lynne.bond@uvm.edu What is Community Psychology? Community psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with person environment interactions and the ways society affects individual and community functioning. Community psychology focuses on social issues, social institutions, and other settings that influence individuals, groups, and organizations. Community psychology as a science seeks to understand relationships between environmental conditions and the development of health and well being of…
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,…
Social Work with Burn-injured Children: A Service-Learning Experience
Social Work with Burn-injured Children: A Service Learning Experience Course Overview: This course is designed to provide students with an intensive leaming experience working with an organization that serves children of families from diverse socio economic, racial and cultural backgrounds who have been bum injured within an unique organizational and community framework. Students will actively participate in a strengths-based, non-traditional setting to provide services that support the well-being of these children along with a diverse community of allied helping professionals outside of the field of social work. Students will learn about the process of bum recovery, gain understanding of…
Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society through Service Learning
S100 Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society: Understanding Diversity through Service Learning Marie Watkins, Ph.D., ACSW Telephone: 274-2713 Grading Plan: The intention of the point system is to provide students with a plan to monitor their ability to successfiffly complete different components of the class. Students are to keep track of their own points achieved, as well as maintain all information received from the instructor in their workbooks. PARTICIPATION IN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING ACTIVITEES: Class Attendance: As stated during class, the course activities are designed to encourage cooperative teaming about theories, feelings and beliefs about issues of diversity. Therefore, discussions, peer…
Social Work Methods III
NAZARETH COLLEGE OF ROCHESTER SOCIAL WORK DEPARTMENT Social Work Methods III Instructor Marie L. Watkins, Ph.D., ACSW, CSW (585) 394-2752 Office Hours Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00 12:00 p.m., or by appointment Smyth Hall, Room 22 Introduction Social Work practice includes the range of direct social work intervention with individuals, families, small groups, and communities. In the practice sequence, the student will be provided an opportunity to develop knowledge of the principles, values, and methods of social work. Foundation content in this area includes the knowledge base (theory, research, practice wisdom) for and application of the process of professional practice; exploration…
Aging
Institution: College of the Canyons Discipline: Sociology Title: Aging Instructor: Patricia Robinson Sociology of Aging Section #29414 Th 11:00-12:15, C 204 Instructor: Patricia Robinson, Ph.D. Office: M 212 Phone: 661.362.3992 Office Hours: M 11-12, T 1-2:30, Th 1-2:30, and Fridays by Appointment Campus email: robinson_p@mail.coc.cc.ca.us Course Goals: The Sociology of Aging entails two primary goals. The first goal is to introduce students to the sociological study of social gerontology or, more specifically, aging. By using the “sociological perspective,” students will examine the cultural, social, and political structures that define the aging process, The worldwide variation between “sociological age” and “chronological…
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