Community Based and Community Engaged Courses: Spring 2024
ANOP 400-Business Analytics Practicum
MWF 12-1.20pm
Joe Wilck
CEL, SLSC, W2
Companies and organizations host student teams who solve those organizations’ problems. Projects are characterized as requiring the analysis of vast data and solving complex problems. Students will identify the most appropriate techniques for their projects and then apply the methodologies that are likely to provide the best solutions. Students will define and frame a complex problem, develop a systematic approach to solving it using analytics, generate an innovative solution, and persuasively convey that solution using data visualization techniques and communication skills.
EDUC 318-Critical Multiculturalism
MW 8.30-9.50am
Sue Ellen Henry
CEL, DUSC, SLSC, W2
This course combines social science and educational research with narrative accounts to explore the historical, philosophical, sociological, and political foundations of the multicultural movement in American education. The course will examine and critique contemporary issues such as the educational experiences of minority groups, inclusive pedagogy, and bilingual education.
ENCW 210-Poetry-Inside-Out
M 1-3.50pm
Katie Hays
ARHC, CEL
This is a course in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program, which facilitates dialogue and education across profound social differences, through courses held inside prison, involving students from a higher education setting and incarcerated students. Goals in this course include developing skills as a supportive member of a diverse group of writers; developing writerly habits and skills; contributing valuably to discussion of assigned reading and the poetry of others in the group; acquiring experience in each step of the writing process; and increased familiarity with a diverse range of poets and poetry, primarily but not solely from the contemporary period.
MGMT 101-Sections 1-4: Introduction to Organizations and Management
TR 8.30-9.50am; MWF10-10.50am; TR 10-11.20am; TR 1-2.30pm; TR 3-4.20pm
Tammy Hiller/Robyn Eversole
CEL, SLSC, SSLG, W2
In the first phase of MGMT 101, students develop organizational missions and strategies using decision-making and political methods. The second phase requires students to design and staff organization structures, and to create operating plans and control systems. In the third phase, students implement their service, business and fundraising projects. In the final phase, they reflect on what they have accomplished and learned, both organizationally and individually.
MORS 400:Management Consulting (2 Sections)
MW8.30-9.50am; 12-1.20pm
Eric Martin
CEL, SLSC
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.
POLS 269-Feminist Political Theory
TR 10-11.20am
Kate Bermingham
CEL, SLSC
An examination of how various feminist ideas, commitments and critiques alter how we understand fundamental concepts and problems in political theory, such as the nature of justice, the function of political community, the foundation of rights, the definition of freedom and who is deserving of political rule. Crosslisted as WMST 269
PSYC 203
TR 3-4.20pm
Kevin Myers
CEL, SLSC, SSLG
| PSYC 203 – Learning |
| The study of basic mechanisms of associative learning in motivated behavior, especially Pavlovian and operant conditioning in the behaviors of various species. |
PSYC 207-Developmental Psychology
TR 1-2.20pm
Chris Boyatzis
CEL, SLSC
To study normal child development processes and sequences prenatal through childhood. Emphasis on theories as crucial interpretive lenses for understanding developmental phenomena and on the interaction of nature and nurture in shaping development.
SOCI 341-Seminar in Law and Society
R 12-4.30pm
Karen Altendorf
CEL, SLSC
Structure and process of legal institutions: police, courts, prisons, lawyers, juries, and extralegal mechanisms relevant to the legal system. Inside Out class taught at SCI Coal Township. Permission only.
UNIV 190-Community Engaged Leadership
T 5-6.20pm
Katherine Faull
CEL
The foundational Leadership Course for the Community Engaged Leadership minor is an introduction to leadership in community engagement (applied learning).
UNIV 192- Food, Faith, Justice
R 4.30-5.50pm
Kurt Nelson
CEL
A two-part course – both parts required
Course application: https://forms.gle/Faxav84YiBUjH6fX7
A seven-week educational preparatory period in which we examine relevant literature and begin to unpack the various interconnected questions of food, justice, poverty, and race in a major American city, followed by a 7-day immersive service-learning experience which will take place during the 2023 Spring Break.
Students come together across religious and moral traditions (religious devotion not required) to partner with community leaders, grassroots activists, and service providers in Baltimore, MD, to serve, explore, and reflect on the issue of food security as it relates to questions or poverty, race, and justice.
All course and trip costs (housing, food, travel) will be covered
WMST 220-Feminist Thought and Action
TR 10-1.20am
Coralynn Davis
CEL, DUSC, SLSC
The objectives of this course are to introduce students to the array of theoretical frameworks developed in feminist studies and to provide students with opportunities to examine those frameworks critically through a local community engagement project.