Service-Learning Courses at Denison

 Fall, 2009 Courses

Biology 321-01                  Plant Ecology   
Andy McCall

Communication 215-04     The Hidden Curriculum
Lisbeth Lipari

Communication 403-01     Culture and Communication  
Amanda Gunn

Economics 301                   Intermediate Macroeconomics
Fadhel Kaboub

Economics 411                   Monetary Theory
Fadhel Kaboub

Education 312-01               Literacy and Learning
Lyn Roberston

FYS  102-03                       Second-Hand Lives
Laurel Kennedy

Soc/Anth 350-01                Field Research Methods
Mary Tuominen

Psyc 210-01                        Development in Infancy and Childhood
Gina Dow




Service-Learning Courses From Previous Terms

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+ Service Learning Courses, Spring 2009

Soc/Anth 350 Field Research Methods                             Mary Tuominen
In this course students investigated a variety of field research methods used by anthropologists and sociologists to analyze social life.  In order to both understand and learn to apply these methods, the  course was organized around a collaborative community research project with the Licking County Coalition for Housing.

ENGL-356-01 Narrative Black America                           Jack Shuler
This course explored the resonance of the Atlantic slave trade and of plantation slavery in the United States of America.  Through the collection of and analysis of oral histories from residents of  Newark Health Care, we asked ourselves where the written text intersects with the unspeakable.

COMM-225-01  US Broadcasting History and Theory   Bill Kirkpatrick
This course offered a broad overview of significant broadcast programs, the institutions that created them, and the social conditions within which they were produced and viewed. This course also included a service-learning component, requiring students to participate in a class service project at the LPN Center.

+ Service Learning Courses, Fall 2008

ARTH-262   Sustainable Urban Landscape                         Karl Sandin
The seminar explored interconnected urban/architectural design, diversity, and equity issues involved in any attempt to reconstruct our devastated North American inner-city areas sustainably. Students worked on-site in Newark, Ohio with the East Main Street Urban Visioning Project.

ARTS-265    Printmaking as Activism                                  Ron Abram
The objective of this course was to reveal students' artistic, political and expressive potential through the production of printmaking that engaged local, national and international issues with the public of Denison, Granville, Newark and Columbus.

Comm-306   Organizational Culture                                     Amanda Gunn
This course explored the constitutive nature of communication by investigating an existing organizational culture through an application of communication concepts and theories, cultural studies theories, and qualitative research methods at numerous sites in Newark.

Econ-101      Introductory Macroeconomics                         Fadhel Kaboub
An introduction to the study of the aggregate national economy. Students participated in a variety of service projects with non-profit organizations in Newark.

Educ-312      Literacy and Learning:Theory and Practice    Lyn Roberson
This course examined reading and writing development from emergent to mature stages. Students worked on-site at the Granville Child Care Center.

FYS-102        Second Hand Lives                                           Laurel Kennedy  
This course examined the question of how our homes have shaped us as individuals, and what it means in socio-cultural, economic, and developmental terms to have a home, or not. The class engaged in a Habitat for Humanity project.

Psyc-210        Development in Infancy and Childhood          Gina Dow
This course explored psychological development through late childhood and preadolescence.

Soc/Anth-313  Non-Nuclear Families                                     Mary Tuominen
Working on-site with New Beginnings, Salvation Army and Legal Aid, this seminar explored the ways in which race, ethnicity, social class and sexuality shape family/kinship structures in and beyond the contemporary U.S.

+ Service Learning Courses, Spring 2008

Comm/221         Theories of Group Communication                                      Cassandra Secrease-Dixon

Educ/421            Senior Seminar in Eeducation                                             Lyn Robertson

Germ/302           Reading and Reacting in the Wake of the Holocaust           Leo Riegert

Span/323            Hispanic Culture through Service-Learning                         Dosinda Garcia-Alvite

+ Service Learning Courses, Fall 2007 - Fall 2003

Fall, 2007
Arth 259         Classical Traditions in Urbanism and Built Form       Karl Sandin
Educ 312        Literacy and Learning                                              Lyn Robertson
Psyc 210        Infancy and  Child Development                              Gina Dow

Spring, 2007
Educ 390        Critical Pedagogy                                                      Lyn Robertson
FYS 102         The Ethics of Care                                                    Alexandra Bradner

Fall, 2006
Educ 390        Critical Pedagogy                                                    Jerrell Beckham
FYS 102         Culture of Survival                                                  Karl Sandin
Psyc 210         Infancy and Child Development                              Gina Dow

Spring, 2006
FYS 102         Making a Difference                                               Mary Tuominen
Psyc 202         Field Experience in Psychology                               Robert Weiss
Span 211        Intermediate Spanish                                               Dosinda Garcia-Alvite 

Fall, 2005
FYS 102       Culture of Survival                                                    Karl Sandin
FYS 102       Economics of Wealth and Poverty                            Andrea Ziegert
FYS 102       Second Hand Lives                                                  Laurel Kennedy
HNRS.189/   Critical Pedagogy                                                     Lyn Robertson
Educ 390/
WMST 301
Psyc 301       Seminar in Child Development                                 Gina Dow 

Spring, 2005
Soc/Anth 313   Families, Sexuality & the State                              Mary Tuominen
Econ 302         Intermediate Microeconomic Theory                     Andrea Ziegert

Fall, 2004
FYS 101         Thinking, Writing, Acting                                       Marlene Tromp
FYS 102         Justice, Rights and Property                                   Edwin England
FYS 102         Social Service, Social Change                                Mary Tuominen
Psyc  210        Development in Inf & Childhood                            Gina Dow

Spring, 2004
Arts 110           Drawing                                                               Ron Abram

Fall, 2003
Educ 390/        Critical Pedagogy                                                  Lyn Robertson
WMST 390
FYS 101          Words and Ideas                                                  Richard Hood
FYS 102          Second Hand Lives                                              Laurel Kennedy
FYS 102          Social Service & Change                                      Mary Tuominen
Psyc 210         Child and Adolescent Development                       Gina Dow