Community Based and Community Engaged Courses for Fall 2022

Do you want to demonstrate your commitment to community-engaged learning and the common good on your official Bucknell transcript? In line with fulfilling the mission of Bucknell University, the following courses are currently approved as Community Based and Community Engaged courses for Fall 2022.

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 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. 

HUMN 330 Studies in Autobiography W2 CBL

Katherine Faull 

R 1-3.50pm

The seminar addresses the following questions: what is autobiography? To what extent is autobiography read as history or ethnography? How does the digital medium affect the writing of the self? How do gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, and religious or political conviction intersect with autobiography and undermine traditional assumptions about the genre’s form and content?  To embed this learning in the community, students will meet, interview, and record the life stories of members of the Mother Mary Cabrini parish in Shamokin, PA.  This project is undertaken as a collaborative project by the parish and Bucknell University to develop a community  “digital oral history.”

MATH 203-01 Introduction to Mathematical Thought CBL

Lara Dick

MF 8.30-9.50am

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.

RELI 279 Judaism and the Law AHLG CBL

Rivka Ulmer

W 1-3.50pm

Explores the cultural and ethical complexities of Jewish Law in the U.S., Europe, and the unique legal system of the state of Israel. This course is a Civic Engagement course and an introduction to Jewish law. Students draw not only on course concepts and theories but also on their own experiences to reflect on issues of importance in the discipline. The objective is to collaborate in active learning. Linking community-engaged learning with coursework.

Community-Engaged Learning CEL

These courses require students to engage in activities that clearly serve the public good by partnering with a community group in a way that is mutually beneficial. These courses address a need in the community (campus, local, regional, global) through organized service 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 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

CEEG Environmental Engineering CEL EVCN

Deborah Sills

MWF 12-12.50pm

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

MWF 9-9.50

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 ECE Capstone Design 1 CEL W2

Alan Cheville and Stu Thompson

MW 1.30-2.50pm

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. MGMT 101 01 Introduction to Organizational Management CEL SSLG W2Eric MartinTR 8:30 AM – 9:50 AMMWF 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM 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 W2Eric MartinMWF 10:00 AM – 10:50 AMTR 10:00 AM – 11:20 AM 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. Also MGMT 101 03 StaffMWF 10:00 AM – 10:50 AMTR 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM And MGMT 101 04StaffMWF 10:00 AM – 10:50 AMTR 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM PSYC 207 01 Developmental Psychology CELChris BoyatzisTR 3:00 PM – 4:20 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 306 01 Critical Trauma Psychology CEL Bill FlackTR 3:00 PM – 4:20 PMThis course is a community-engaged seminar on psychological trauma, post-traumatic stress and the contexts in which people become traumatized. Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as PSYC 606. PSYC 320 01 Children’s Studies CELChris BoyatzisW 7:00 PM – 9:50 PMCritical 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. WMST 220 01 Feminist Thought and Action CEL DUSCCoralynn DavisTR 10:00 AM – 11:20 AM Explore the broad range of work that lays the intellectual and theoretical groundwork for contemporary feminist theory and politics, while providing student opportunities to experience such work critically through service learning experiences in the community. Prerequisite: WMST 150 or permission of the instructor.