The minor in Civic and Community Engagement provides an opportunity for students to extend their education beyond the classroom through engagement in socially meaningful public scholarship in both pre-existing and newly developing community projects. This minor entails situated as well as experiential learning. 学生申请, 测试, analyze and re-formulate academic material in the context of public problems and community settings. Engaging in "learning-by-doing" allows students to communicate across differences, 刻意的公共问题, 履行公民责任, gain insight into personal values and world-views, develop civic skills including observation and listening, and further develop career interests and professional goals.
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Foundations: Civic and Community Engagement (3学分)
This course provides an orientation to themes and issues in civic and community engagement. It explores the philosophical foundations of democracy, and invites students to reflect upon what it means to be a citizen. It is an interdisciplinary course with a focus on the rhetorical practices needed to create and sustain a thriving community. 另外, students in this course will participate in a service-learning and/or a community-based research project with the Olivet Boys and Girls Club of 阅读.
Supporting Courses and Related Areas
美国研究概论 (3学分)
A study of selected attempts to identify and interpret movements and patterns in American culture. Includes community-based research (oral histories of local Vietnam War veterans)
服务学习学者 (信贷)
This course combines theory and practice in service learning and community- based research to train students to be leaders in courses involving service learning or community-based research. Students will be assigned to a course involving service learning and community-based research and will be paid for this work. Permission of instructor required. 博士联系. 劳里·格罗布曼 (电子邮件保护) 有关详细信息,.
环境科学 (3学分)
Kinds of environments; past and present uses and abuses of natural resources; disposal of human wastes; prospects for the future. Students who have passed BIOL 220 or any other upper-level ecology course in biology may not schedule this course. Includes service learning and community-based research.
Intercultural Communication Theory and 研究 (3学分)
Intercultural and cross-cultural communication research theory and practice as applied within and across national boundaries.
Introduction to Criminal Justice (3学分)
Overview of the criminal justice system, 包括法律基础, processing and correction of offenders, 犯罪的范围和类型, 受害者.
Introductory Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy (3学分)
National income measurement; aggregate economic models; money and income; policy problems. Includes service learning and community-based research.
Competing Rights: Issues in American Education (3学分)
An examination of educational issues relevant to democratic citizenship; emphasis is on understanding the relationship among politics, 学校, 和社会.
人文写作 (3学分)
Instruction in writing persuasive arguments about significant issues in the humanities. A student may take only one course for credit from ENGL 202A, 202B, 202C, and 202D. Includes community-based research: researching and writing a history of the local Olivet Boys and Girls Club.
家庭社会学 (3学分)
Family structure and interaction; functions of the family as an institution; cross-cultural comparisons. Students may take only one course for General Education credit from SOC 030 or HD FS 129.
Globalization, Technology, and Ethics (3学分)
An investigation of technology and ethics in the globalized world from contemporary, 社会文化, 从历史角度看.