• Laura Romano: BIOL 324, Developmental Biology (working on issues of maternal health, preparing educational materials) Every multicellular organism begins its life as a single cell. Developmental biology is the study of the progression from this single cell to a complex, multicellular organism. Recently the powerful tools of molecular biology have linked the fields of embryology and genetics to reveal how cells, tissues, organs, and organisms develop. Especially striking is the conservation of molecules and mechanisms that underlie developmental processes in different organisms. This course provides an overview of the major features of early embryonic development in animals, and the mechanisms (molecular mechanism when known) that underlie them. We focus on two major aspects of developmental biology: (1) How is the basic body plan established? How does the basic organization of the embryo arise from the fertilized egg? What are the cellular mechanisms underlying morphogenesis and the appearance of pattered structures in the embryo? (2) How do parts become different in the embryo?
 
• Christine Weingart: BIO 317, Diversity of Microorganisms (working with a class at Newark High School) This course examines the remarkable environmental, physiological, and metabolic diversity of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms (i.e., bacteria, protists, algae, & fungi). More specifically, diversity will be studied in terms of taxonomy and phylogeny, the ability of species to live in various environments, and the application and value of genomics in diversity. Emphasis will be placed on the reading of primary literature, and on using that information to make connections with class lectures and generate hypotheses that will be tested in the laboratory. The structure of the course includes traditional lectures, class activities, and student presentations.
 
• Amanda Gunn: COMM 403, Culture & Communication (oral histories of residents of South Newark)  This seminar takes a historical and critical approach to understand the role communication plays in creating various cultural experiences. Topics include: How can we best understand and study the construction of "culture" through a communication lens? What does "American culture" mean within a pluralistic and diverse society? How are different cultural voices created, heard or erased? How is "America" constructed from international scholars' perspectives? 
 
• Fadhel  Kaboub: ECON 101-03, Intro to Macroeconomics (DVD program) An introduction to the study of the economic problem, the nature and method of economics, the operation of markets, and of the aggregate national economy. Develops the basic theories of macroeconomics and applies them to topics of current interest. Explores issues such as: the causes of inflation, unemployment, recessions and depressions; the role of government fiscal and monetary policy in stabilizing the economy; the determinants of long-run economic growth; the long- and short-run effects of taxes, budget deficits, and other government policies on the national economy; and the workings of exchange rates and international trade.
 
• Fadhel Kaboub: ECON 411, Monetary Theory (DVD program) The role money plays in determining economic outcomes, such as the level of employment, the aggregate price level, and the rate of economic growth, is one of the more controversial issues in economics. To get a handle on these controversies, this course explores the institutional structure of the U.S. monetary system, including the Federal Reserve, the body charged with the conduct of U.S. monetary policy. Then, the course compares and contrasts different perspectives on the role money plays in economic activity. The goal is to combine knowledge of the institutional structure of the U.S. monetary system with an understanding of the various theoretical perspectives on monetary theory in order to gain some insight into the difficult issues facing the conduct of successful monetary policy. This course builds towards simulated Federal Reserve Open Market Committee Meetings, in which students will form their own opinions about the influence monetary policy has on the rates of inflation, unemployment, economic growth and the distribution of income.
 
• Anne Crowley: EDUC 245, Technology and Learning (oral histories of residents of South Newark) This course will explore a variety of technology (emphasis on multi-media and Web 2.0 tools) so students interested in the field of education will not only become proficient in the practical use of technology, but determine when technology is appropriate, how it can be used to enhance learning and how to assess its usefulness in the academic setting. This course will include a combination of discussion, lecture, video, and hands-on computer work.
 
• Emily Nemeth: EDUC 312, Literacy and Learning (literacy education at Etna Elementary School) The purpose of this course is to examine reading and writing development from emergent to mature stages. Emphasis is on theories of reading and writing, approaches for solving problems related to these processes, and teaching students to read and write critically. The course includes a 30-hour commitment to a field experience in an area school classroom. 
 
• Jerrell Beckham: EDUC 390, Critical Pedagogy (tutoring/mentoring students at Newark High School) In its examination of current critical issues in U.S. education, the central concern throughout this course is the relationship between school and society. Particular attention is given to critical and feminist pedagogies.
   
• Jill Gillespie, WMST 101, Issues in Feminism (individual projects; for ex: sororities working together to create meals for YES) This interdisciplinary course traces the socio-political meaning and practice of gender in our lives. It examines whether gender is biological or socially constructed, and the ways in which notions of masculinity and femininity are produced. The course closely analyzes the working of power and the social production of inequality in society. It analyzes the power dynamics in women’s lives in institutions such as the family, the state, and the workplace. It traces the intersection between gender, race, class, ethnicity, nationality and sexuality. The central aim of the course is to develop critical reading and thinking about women’s lives and the ways in which women have resisted these inequalities and engaged in local/global politics for social transformation and change. 
 
• Tina Pierce: WMST 101, Issues in Feminism (mentoring girls in the community) This interdisciplinary course traces the socio-political meaning and practice of gender in our lives. It examines whether gender is biological or socially constructed, and the ways in which notions of masculinity and femininity are produced. The course closely analyzes the working of power and the social production of inequality in society. It analyzes the power dynamics in women’s lives in institutions such as the family, the state, and the workplace. It traces the intersection between gender, race, class, ethnicity, nationality and sexuality. The central aim of the course is to develop critical reading and thinking about women’s lives and the ways in which women have resisted these inequalities and engaged in local/global politics for social transformation and change. 
 
• Bob Ghiloni & Sara Lee: Men’s and Women’s Basketball Team (mentoring students at Ben Franklin Elementary School ( NOT A CLASS)

Ping Yang – Communication – Lang, Culture, & Comm – 320

Mary Tuominen – Sociology/Anthropology 350-01 Field Methods

Tina Pierce – Women's Studies – Issues in Feminism – 101-03

Andrea Ziegert - Economics - Environmental Economics - Econ 427

Community/Service Learning

Service-Learning Courses From Previous Terms

Fall 2011 Courses

Ping Yang – Communication – Lang, Culture, & Comm – 315-02

Fadhel Kaboub – Economics – Monetary Theory – 411

Emily Nemith – Education – Literacy and Learning – 312-01

Mary Tuominen – Sociology/Anthropology – Non-Nuclear Families – SA-313-01

Gill Miller – Women's Studies – Feminist Theory – 307

Tina Pierce – Women's Studies – Issues in Feminism – 101-03

Community/Service Learning

Spring 2011 Courses

BIOL-104-01
Biopolitics Women’s Health – Clare Jen
This course examines critical conversations in the biology, politics, culture, and history of women’s health. The nation’s greatest health issues include, but are not limited to, high rates of sexually transmitted infections among young women, unmanaged chronic conditions among middle-aged and older women, racial and ethnic health disparities, and the epidemic of obesity. Evaluating the complexities of these “women’s health” issues involves both scientific literacy and socio-cultural literacy. The laboratory component of this course familiarizes students with the scientific method, basics of human physiology, and health differences between women and men. A possible service component will introduce students to the barriers women experience accessing health care services. This course promotes proficiency in oral communication through practice in a variety of formats that typically occur in biology.

Fall 2010 Courses

BIOL-100-01

All About Food - Erin McMullin
An examination of current issues surrounding food, including food production, resource use, environmental impacts, genetic engineering, economics, nutrition and public health. This course will include a service learning component.

BIOL-356-01

Diversity of Microorganisms - Chris Weingart

This course will examine the remarkable environmental, physiological, and metabolic diversity of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms and viruses. More specifically, diversity will be studied in terms of taxonomy and phylogeny, the ability of species to live in various environments, and the application and value of genomics in diversity. Emphasis will be placed on the reading of primary literature, and using that information to make connections with class lectures and generate hypotheses that will be tested in the laboratory. The structure of the course will include traditional lectures, class activities, and student presentations.This course includes a service learning component; DU students will present lessons for Newark City middle school students who participate in Denison Companions.

ECON 101-02

Introductory Macroeconomics - Fadhel Kaboub

An introduction to the study of the economic problem, the nature and method of economics, the operation of markets, and of the aggregate national economy. Develops the basic theories of macroeconomics and applies them to topics of current interest. Explores issues such as: the causes of inflation, unemployment, recessions and depressions; the role of government fiscal and monetary policy in stabilizing the economy; the determinants of long-run economic growth; the long- and short-run effects of taxes, budget deficits, and other government policies on the national economy; and the workings of exchange rates and international trade.
Service: Students engage in various community service activities in exchange for Denison Volunteer Dollars which are required to participate in a simulated monetary system for this and other Department of Economics courses.

ECON 411-01 

Monetary Theory - Fadhel Kaboub 

The role money plays in determining economic outcomes, such as the level of employment, the aggregate price level, and the rate of economic growth, is one of the more controversial issues in economics. To get a handle on these controversies, this course explores the institutional structure of the U.S. monetary system, including the Federal Reserve, the body charged with the conduct of U.S. monetary policy. Then, the course compares and contrasts different perspectives on the role money plays in economic activity. The goal is to combine knowledge of the institutional structure of the U.S. monetary system with an understanding of the various theoretical perspectives on monetary theory in order to gain some insight into the difficult issues facing the conduct of successful monetary policy. This course builds towards simulated Federal Reserve Open Market Committee Meetings, in which students will form their own opinions about the influence monetary policy has on the rates of inflation, unemployment, economic growth and the distribution of income. This course includes a service learning component.

EDUC 250-01

Learner and the Teacher: Adolescents -  Jerrell Beckham

This course includes a service learning component. DU students will work with students at the Pro Teen Center in Newark. 

EDUC 312-01

Literacy & Learning - Shawn Casey

Literacy and Learning is a senior-level service learning course in the Education Major. Course goals include transforming theory and research from the interdisciplinary field of literacy studies into practical applications for improving literacy in the classroom and the community. To that end, students spend two hours a week in the Newark Public Schools reading one-on-one with students. This service learning experience serves as one of the "texts" for the course and students write weekly journal entries reflecting on their experiences at the school. 

ENVS 220-01

Approaches to Environmental Education - Olivia Aguilar

This course includes a service learning component. DU students will provide and deliver environmental education lessons to Newark City Schools students who participate in the NCS After Schools Adventure program.  

PSYC 205-01

Development of Children with Special Needs - Gina Dow

This course covers a wide range of developmental disabilities, focusing mostly on physical impairments and intellectual disabilities.  We will discuss the impact of disabilities on the individual’s development and how families respond to the various challenges that often arise.  In addition, we will review some general concepts concerning disabilities, including cultural influences, federal laws and regulations, ethical issues, the family-centered approach, prenatal development and testing, and prematurity.  Some of the disabilities that will be examined include metabolic errors, disorders of hearing and communication, neural tube defects, intellectual disabilities, specific learning disabilities, Fragile X, ADHD, and disorders on the Autism Spectrum.What you will learn in this class will be best retained if you have the opportunity to see and interact with children with diverse needs on a regular basis; an opportunity to have additional caring sensitive adults with whom to interact is also good for the children.  Therefore, this course has a weekly service learning commitment in which enrolled students will serve about 2½ – 3 hours weekly, in a local public school preschool serving both typically developing children and children with special needs. 

PSYC 300-02

Seminar: Cognitive Neuroscience of Music- Nestor Matthews

This course is designed to survey a broad range of topics that inform us about the link between the brain and various feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that occur when we hear or perform music. After reading research articles, students will make presentations and discuss questions such as the following. Why does music make us feel good? What, exactly, do musical experts know about music that novices don’t? How do the brains of musical experts and novices differ? How do the brains of our evolutionarily near (e.g., monkeys) and more distant (e.g., birds) relatives differ in musically relevant ways? Does the evolutionary history shared by all humans give rise to cross-culture “musical universals”? How do researchers who create neural computational models help us understand the musical brain? What can neuro-imaging studies and clinical studies on brain damage teach us about music perception and performance? Why is “perfect pitch” prevalent in autism? In addition to making oral presentations, students will write essays, and learn to create stimuli that could be used in experiments about music.This course includes a service learning component. DU students will develop a lesson plan to share with 7th grade students at Granville Middle School.

Spring 2010 Courses

BIOL/WMST 103
Sex, Gender & the Brain Kristina Mead

This is a non-majors class that addresses topics such as how different or similar human males and females are biologically, the male and female brain, the neural origin of sex differences in the brain, and how social status affects sex hormones which then affect the brain. We will also discuss complex non-human mating systems that include other genders, the role of hermaphrodites, parthenogenesis, and asexual reproduction. After completing this course, you will be able to: 1) read, critically analyze, and present in written and oral form the biological literature pertaining to sex and gender and the brain, 2) identify brain features on preserved mammalian brains and models, 3) use basic neurobiological principles to predict normal and diseased outcomes in male and female brains, 4) perform experiments and analyze data relating to sex, gender, and the brain. This course is cross-listed with Women’s Studies.
Tentative service: Students will conduct hands-on neuroscience exercises with all 24 Newark City Schools 2^nd grade classrooms over the last three weeks of April, serving as instructors, assistants or classroom observers.

ECON 101-01
Introductory Macroeconomics Fadhel Kaboub

An introduction to the study of the economic problem, the nature and method of economics, the operation of markets, and of the aggregate national economy. Develops the basic theories of macroeconomics and applies them to topics of current interest. Explores issues such as: the causes of inflation, unemployment, recessions and depressions; the role of government fiscal and monetary policy in stabilizing the economy; the determinants of long-run economic growth; the long- and short-run effects of taxes, budget deficits, and other government policies on the national economy; and the workings of exchange rates and international trade.
Service: Students engage in various community service activities in exchange for Denison Volunteer Dollars which are required to participate in a simulated monetary system for this and other Department of Economics courses.

ECON 101-02

Introductory Macroeconomics Fadhel Kaboub

An introduction to the study of the economic problem, the nature and method of economics, the operation of markets, and of the aggregate national economy. Develops the basic theories of macroeconomics and applies them to topics of current interest. Explores issues such as: the causes of inflation, unemployment, recessions and depressions; the role of government fiscal and monetary policy in stabilizing the economy; the determinants of long-run economic growth; the long- and short-run effects of taxes, budget deficits, and other government policies on the national economy; and the workings of exchange rates and international trade.
Service: Students engage in various community service activities in exchange for Denison Volunteer Dollars which are required to participate in a simulated monetary system for this and other Department of Economics courses.

EDUC 390
Critical Pedagogy: Gender, race and class in US education Lyn Robertson

Tentative Service: Students will undertake a focused research problem on behalf of the Superintendent of Newark City Schools, Douglas Ute.

In conjunction with students from SPAN 323, EDUC 390 students have the option of traveling to Nicaragua for one week in February to work in a school on a rural farm.

FYS/WMST 102-01/02

(In)Justice of Entanglement: Intro to the Ethics of Care Alexandra Bradner

We might want to live in a just society, one in which scarce goods are distributed fairly. But we might also want to live in a benevolent society, one in which caring for people and their particular needs trumps fairness. Feminist ethicists of care champion benevolence. They argue the modernist notion of the individual as a discrete or bounded metaphysical locus is a historical, anthrocentric and misogynist artifact. Rights, responsibilities, praise, and blame should not accrue to single persons, but to small groups attached to one another through relations of dependence and care. In this course, we will critically assess this debate through works by Kant, Hume, Rawls, Kohlberg, and Gilligan, among many others.

As a course in curricular service-learning, students will process these readings viscerally by entering into their own relationships of dependence and care with community partners – groups whose needs might clash with our collegiate schedules and priorities. As an empirical source of reflection and critique, we will take our abstract understanding of care theory and bring it to the community by working on a semester-long service project. Students who enroll in this course should be prepared to spend, on average, an extra three hours a week coordinating, conducting, and reflecting upon this community work.

Tentative service: Students will assist with a drama program operated by a non-profit educational center serving children on the autism spectrum.

FYS/WMST 102-02
(In)Justice of Entanglement: Intro to the Ethics of Care Alexandra Bradner

We might want to live in a just society, one in which scarce goods are distributed fairly. But we might also want to live in a benevolent society, one in which caring for people and their particular needs trumps fairness. Feminist ethicists of care champion benevolence. They argue the modernist notion of the individual as a discrete or bounded metaphysical locus is a historical, anthrocentric and misogynist artifact. Rights, responsibilities, praise, and blame should not accrue to single persons, but to small groups attached to one another through relations of dependence and care. In this course, we will critically assess this debate through works by Kant, Hume, Rawls, Kohlberg, and Gilligan, among many others.

As a course in curricular service-learning, students will process these readings viscerally by entering into their own relationships of dependence and care with community partners – groups whose needs might clash with our collegiate schedules and priorities. As an empirical source of reflection and critique, we will take our abstract understanding of care theory and bring it to the community by working on a semester-long service project. Students who enroll in this course should be prepared to spend, on average, an extra three hours a week coordinating, conducting, and reflecting upon this community work.

Tentative service: Students will work with clients in a day treatment program for MRDD clients in preparing public education materials about sensitivity in protocols for interacting with the MRDD population and others who experience disabilities.

FYS 102-12
Science & Community Olivia Aguilar

This course is designed to involve students from all walks of life in science practices of communities. Through this course, students will be exposed to the broad and encompassing role science plays in our everyday lives. As a service-learning course, we will engage with local community members in work around community problems. We will use inquiry-based approaches and the practices of scientists, in addition to the real-world applications of community members in their approach to various problems.

Students will be exposed to a variety of methods and tools that are not only used in the natural sciences, but from other fields as well. Students will consider science, culture and the inter-relationship between these two, through readings and reflection. Ultimately, students should be able to reflect on what science means and how it is practiced in various communities, while determining how they might best practice it to meet their needs.
Service element: Students will assist the Buckeye Lake Civic Association and Buckeye Lake for Tomorrow with projects related to water quality and restoration of the lake, and public information about environmental issues affecting the lake.

NEUR 450

Advanced Neuroscience Caroline Wilson

Tentative service: Students will work in Licking County public school classrooms serving students with multiple disabilities. For three weeks (Feb 22, Mar1, and Mar 8), students will interact with and assist individual students. In response to a request from Licking County Educational Services Center, they will subsequently produce educational materials about specified developmental disabilities for use by families, teachers and other school personnel, and the general public.

PSYC 202

Field Experience (Internship, Newark City Schools) Robert Weis

Service: Students will work on a regular basis at Carson Elementary, conducting a reading intervention with children identified by the school as presenting reading delays.

SPAN 323

Hispanic Culture through Service-learning in Central Ohio Dosinda Alvite

This course is for students learning about the culture of Hispanic communities of the USA and those interested in using their Spanish language skills through interaction with local Hispanic communities. This class integrates academic readings and discussions in Spanish about the Hispanic community in the USA with service work within that community. Academic work: Students will meet three hours a week (2 classes) to explore and analyze readings, films, documentaries and testimonies related to the culture of the Hispanic population of the USA. Students will keep a portfolio that will display their reflections and research on the topics analyzed.

Service: Students will be placed in Licking County schools to tutor for two hours per week. Their service will involve speaking in Spanish with the target population and offering Hispanic children the opportunity to improve their English through activities such as help with homework, reading programs or recreation activities. Tutors will keep a journal/log, describing their work with the children and tracing their own progress as well as that of the children.

In conjunction with students from EDUC 390, SPAN 323 students have the option of traveling to Nicaragua for one week in February to work in a school on a rural farm.

Fall 2009 Courses

Biology 327-01                  Biology of Insects   
Tom Shultz

This course will explore the world of insects and their interactions with other species. Our central focus will be to survey insect diversity and explore how various orders, families, and species are adapted through evolution to their specific environment. But we will also use that diversity as a lens through which we will examine major concepts in biology. Topics of discussion will be drawn from readings in Nature, Science, and the primary literature will include the following: plant-insect coevolution, mating systems, anti-predator defenses, eusocial behavior, parasitism, disease transmittance, insect conservation, and control of agricultural pests. Laboratory will include field studies of insects at the Denison University Biological Reserve and the preparation of a collection. This course includes a service learning component.

Biology 356-01                  Diversity of Microorganisms
Chris Weingart 

This course will examine the remarkable environmental, physiological, and metabolic diversity of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms and viruses. More specifically, diversity will be studied in terms of taxonomy and phylogeny, the ability of species to live in various environments, and the application and value of genomics in diversity. Emphasis will be placed on the reading of primary literature, and using that information to make connections with class lectures and generate hypotheses that will be tested in the laboratory. The structure of the course will include traditional lectures, class activities, and student presentations, and includes a service learning component.

Communication 215-04     The Hidden Curriculum
Lisbeth Lipari

This course is a Service Learning Course, Cross-Listed with Education. The objective of this course is to study the relationship between classroom communication and structures of inequity in public education. Building on work in communication, sociolinguistics and education studies, Denison students will explore how hidden assumptions about classroom language and literacy practices construct and maintain dominant cultural formations, social identities, and power relations.  In the service-learning component, Denison students will explore the ways in which tacit assumptions and understandings about everyday communication and instructional discourse manifest in the academic experiences of high school students in Newark, Ohio. Each Denison student will be paired with a Newark High School student who may be at risk for not achieving his or her academic, personal and/or interpersonal potential, and they  will  work together for one-on-one tutoring and mentoring.

Communication 403-01     Culture and Communication  
Amanda Gunn

This seminar takes a historical and critical approach to understand the role communication plays in creating various cultural experiences. Major theories on culture and race are examined. Topics include: How can we best understand and study the construct "culture?" What does "American culture" mean within a pluralistic and diverse society? How are different cultural voices created, heard or erased? How is "America" constructed from international scholars' perspectives? This course has a service learning component.

Economics 301                   Intermediate Macroeconomics
Fadhel Kaboub

An examination of the determinants of Gross Domestic Product, the unemployment rate and the price level. The components of aggregate spending consumption, investment, foreign trade and government will be examined to determine their significance for explaining the business cycle. Similarly the financial side of the economy and the role of money will be examined to determine their impact on the business cycle. The purpose of each examination is to understand the factors that move the economy and how fiscal and monetary policy can be used to alter the course of economic trends.This course includes a service learning component.

Economics 411                   Monetary Theory
Fadhel Kaboub

The role money plays in determining economic outcomes, such as the level of employment, the aggregate price level, and the rate of economic growth, is one of the more controversial issues in economics. To get a handle on these controversies, this course explores the institutional structure of the U.S. monetary system, including the Federal Reserve, the body charged with the conduct of U.S. monetary policy. Then, the course compares and contrasts different perspectives on the role money plays in economic activity. The goal is to combine knowledge of the institutional structure of the U.S. monetary system with an understanding of the various theoretical perspectives on monetary theory in order to gain some insight into the difficult issues facing the conduct of successful monetary policy. This course builds towards simulated Federal Reserve Open Market Committee Meetings, in which students will form their own opinions about the influence monetary policy has on the rates of inflation, unemployment, economic growth and the distribution of income. This course includes a service learning component.

Education 312-01               Literacy and Learning
Lyn Roberston

The purpose of this course is to examine reading and writing development from emergent to mature stages. Emphasis is on theories of reading and writing, approaches for solving problems related to these processes, and teaching students to read and write critically. The course includes a service learning component.

Soc/Anth 350-01                Field Research Methods
Mary Tuominen

In this course students investigate how anthropologists and sociologists approach and analyze social life. We study a variety of field research methods that sociologists and anthropologists use to gather information, and analyze that data on which they base their claims about societies and cultures. We are particularly attentive to research design, data collection, and analyses used in interviewing and participant observation. Throughout our study we will maintain a critical perspective. That is, we will stay alert to the problems and limitations (as well as the strengths) of various field research methods. This course includes a service learning component.

Psyc 210-01                        Development in Infancy and Childhood
Gina Dow

Psychological development through late childhood and preadolescence. Topics covered include biological foundations, prenatal development, infancy, cognitive and language development, personality and social and emotional development (including attachment, development of self concept, peer relations, gender differences), family and social policy issues, and developmental psychopathology. This course includes a service learning component.

Spring 2009 Courses

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.

Spring 2008 Courses

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.
 

Spring 2008 Courses

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

Fall 2007—Fall 2003 Courses

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