Community Engaged Learning

All posts by Aidan McKenna

Wednesday, April 5th, 2023

Academic Engagement at SCI Coal Township: Physics Professor Tom Solomon

Dr. Tom Solomon, Presidential Professor of Physics, is currently teaching UNIV 232, Science Technology and Society, a Community-Engaged Learning course that explores the effects science and those that study it have on society. What makes this course so special is that it is an Inside-Out course, which means that the course is taught in a correctional facility. Solomon travels to the State Correctional Institution (SCI) in Coal Township with 12 Bucknell students, here referred to as outside students, to teach them and 12 incarcerated students, referred to as inside students. As of this semester, the inside students will receive course […]

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Friday, February 17th, 2023

Academic Engagement into Performance: Theatre Professor cfrancis blackchild

cfrancis blackchild is a Bucknell theatre professor who “directs, performs, teaches, and writes for and about theatre”, according to her personal website. In her theatre work and scholarship, blackchild focuses on the social functions and impacts of theatre. She has a focus in her practice on Theatre and Social Change and Theatre of the Oppressed, specifically using interactive performance in the Forum Theatre Technique. Through a course in the fall, blackchild is bringing Forum Theatre to Bucknell, to be presented in “Can We Talk About It?”, performed in Tustin Theatre Feb. 17, 18, and 19.

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Wednesday, May 4th, 2022

Academic Engagement in Action: Psychology Professor Chris Boyatzis

Dr. Chris Boyatzis is a professor of Psychology who focuses on Children’s and Developmental Psychology. At Bucknell, Boyatzis teaches two Community-Engaged Learning Courses: PSYC207- Developmental Psychology and PSYC320- Children’s Studies. Outside of his coursework, Boyatzis is a large proponent of civic engagement through his directorship of the Bucknell in Denmark summer program and his connection of students with Camp Koala: a camp for children experiencing death or grief. 

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