Community-Based and Community-Engaged Courses for 

Summer and Fall 2023 

Do you want to demonstrate your commitment to community-engaged learning and the common good on your official Bucknell transcript? Might you sign up for the newly approved Community Engaged Leadership minor which demonstrates your commitment to community engagement and experiential learning? In line with fulfilling the mission of Bucknell University, the following courses are currently approved as Community Based and Community Engaged courses for Fall and Summer 2023.

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Community-Based Learning CBL

These courses provide organized and meaningful learning experiences in settings outside the classroom to enhance understanding of information, concepts, and theories related to the course or to build skills in the discipline. They also focus a significant portion of instructional time on the community settings where students are learning, researching, or observing social or environmental issues at work. In addition, they provide structured opportunities for students to reflect critically on the connections between their community experiences and course content; examples of such opportunities include individual writing, class discussions, group projects, or oral interviews. The courses cultivate students’ sense of civic responsibility, inclusive excellence, and develop the knowledge and skills needed for active civic engagement. All courses clearly state that demonstration of knowledge gained through community interaction, rather than simple completion of a specified number of hours off-campus, will be used to help determine students’ grades. 

Summer 2023

MORS 215 “Social and Environmental Entrepreneurship in Australia”  CBL, EVCN, GBCC

SLSC

Robyn Ebersole

Online, synchronous course.  

MTWR 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of social and environmental entrepreneurship in an international context. Students will explore how entrepreneurial processes can be used to identify and implement creative solutions to complex societal issues and challenges. We will apply theories of social entrepreneurship and social change as we engage with practical community-based examples of social and environmental entrepreneurship in the Australian context.

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Fall 2023

ANTH 201/SOCI 201  “Field Research-Local Community” CBL, SLSC, SSLG, W2

Emmanuel Cannady

W 1-3.50 pm

Students will be expected to conduct an independent ethnographic project of their own design in the local area. Over the course of the semester, each student will design a research plan, collect and analyze data, theorize their results, and present their findings to the community.

MATH 203-01 Introduction to Mathematical Thought CBL, NSMC

Lara Dick

MF 8.30-9.50 am 

An investigation of number, numeration, and operations from the perspective of elementary school teachers and pupils. Open only to B.S. in Education Early Childhood students. Required fieldwork.

SOCI 201 Field Research-Local Community

Emmanuel Cannady

W 1.00-3.50pm

SOCI 234 Criminology CBL, SLSC

Karen Altendorf

MWF 2 – 2.50 pm

This course provides an overview of the theories and research in criminal behavior and the societal reaction to criminality. We will explore the causes and consequences of crime from a sociological perspective.

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Community-Engaged Learning CEL

These courses require students to engage in activities by partnering with a community group in a mutually beneficial way. These courses address a priority in the community (campus, local, regional, global) through organized engagement activities; demonstrate a clear connection between the nature of the community-engaged activity and the course content and/or disciplinary field; promote increased civic awareness, inclusive excellence, and community engagement; require that each student engages for a significant number of hours with a community partner or government agency; involve structured opportunities for students to reflect critically on the connections between their community experiences and course content; examples of such opportunities include individual writing, class discussions, group projects, or oral interviews; and clearly state that demonstration of knowledge gained through the community interaction, rather than simple completion of a specified number of hours off-campus, will be used to help determine students’ grades

Summer 2023

ARBC 221 JD Exploring Jordan’s Cultures

Martin Isleem 

Open only to students enrolled in Bucknell in Jordan summer program

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Fall 2023

CEEG 340 Environmental Engineering CEL EVCN

Deborah Sills

MWF 12-12.50 pm

Introduction to fundamentals of environmental engineering and science including chemistry, microbiology, mass balance, and reactor theory. Application of concepts to environmental engineering includes water quality, water and waste-water treatment, solid and hazardous waste, air pollution, greenhouse gases and climate change. Includes hands-on lab. Corequisite: CHEM 201 or CHEM 203

CHEM 332 Analytical Chemistry II CEL NSMC

Douglas Collins

TH 8.30 – 9.50 am

Theory and practice of techniques of instrumental analysis including spectrophotometry, fluorescence, mass spectrometry, atomic absorption, chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, and dynamic electrochemistry. Prerequisite: CHEM 231 and co-requisite CHEM 332L.

ECEG 400 Capstone Design 1 CEL W2

Alan Cheville and Stu Thompson

MWF 2.00 – 2.50 pm

Engineering capstone design focusing on problem identification, project planning and logistics, and learning the divergent/convergent engineering design process in Electrical & Computer Engineering. Year-long capstone experience that concludes with ECEG 401. Prerequisite: ECEG 301 or permission of instructor.

GEOG 220 – Cultural Geography (Inside/Out course taught at State Carceral  Institution Coal Township) (CEL)
Vanessa Massaro
W 12.00 – 4.30 pm

Role of culture in shaping places. How cultures are geographically expressed, and how geography is a basic element in the constitution of cultures. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.

MGMT 101 01 Introduction to Organizational Management CEL SSLG W2
Robyn Eversole
MWF 10-10.50 am
TH 1.00-2.20 pm

MGMT 101 is an experiential course that meets up to five days a week and requires work every weekday. In the first phase of MGMT 101 projects, students develop strategies and policies, using decision-making and political methods. The second phase requires students to design organization structures, operating plans and control systems, and in the third phase, students implement those plans by conducting service, business, and report projects.
MGMT 101 02 Intro to Organization/Management CEL SSLG W2

Robyn Ebersole
MWF 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM
TR 3.00 – 4:20 PM
Also MGMT 101 03 Melissa Intindola MWF 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM TR 8.30 am – 9.50 am
And MGMT 101 04Melissa Intindola MWF 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM TR 10.00 am-11.20 am

MIDE 315 Marketing for Social Impact

Gulay Guzel

TR 1.00-2.20pm A seminar on selected topics in marketing, innovation and design.

MORS 400
Neil Boyd
TR 8.30-9.50am
This course exposes students to principles and practices of management consulting. Students develop, organize and manage significant community-based projects that involve multiple stakeholder groups toward reaching future goals. Students must integrate knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences that they have accumulated during their college experience.

PSYC 207 01 Developmental Psychology CEL
Haley Kragness
TR 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM
Study of stages, sequences and processes in normal child development, prenatal through childhood. Emphasis on interaction of nature and nurture in cognitive, social, emotional development. Volunteer work component to course. Prerequisite: PSYC 100. EDUC 201 is accepted as an alternate prerequisite for EDUC BS majors or permission of the instructor.

PSYC 320 01 Children’s Studies CEL
Permission required.
Chris Boyatzis
W 7:00 PM – 9:50 PM
Critical examination of childhood from multiple disciplinary lenses. Topics include child labor, child soldiers, children’s spirituality, children in diverse cultures, children & the arts, and social class and race as influences in children’s lives. In this service-learning course students work with children/youth in field placements. Open to Seniors by permission. Crosslisted as PSYC 620.

UNIV 191 Community Engaged Practice
Katie Faull
W 6-7.20pm
Community Engaged Practice is an active learning experience that complements UNIV 190. Students enrolled in this course will be working in a community service project, approved by the Office of Civic Engagement. Preference is to take UNIV 190 prior to UNIV 191. 

UNIV 205 Children and Nature
Chris Boyatzis
TR 3.00- 4.20pm
The course will run from September 5, 2023 to October 24, 2023. UNIV 205 is being offered as 0.5 credit. The title is ‘Children and Nature’. This is a civic engagement/service learning course with a fieldwork component in which students will volunteer for several hours a week outside of class interacting with children at a nature site. Thus, the course requires students to have all necessary child abuse clearances by the start of the course. If students need to obtain their PA and FBI clearances, they should contact the professor at registration time to begin the process of obtaining clearances.