UNC Chapel Hill: APPLES Service-Learning Program: For Students

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Ueltschi Course Development Grant Recipients

COMM 390 - Communicating for Social Change - Communication Studies
Instructors: Ms. Billie Murray, Ms. Natalie Fixmer

ANTH 148 - Anthropology and Public Interest - Anthropology
Instructor: Dr. Karla Slocum

JOMC XXX - Public Affairs Reporting for New Media - School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Instructor: Mr. Ryan Thornburg

SPAN 321 - Spanish for Health Care - Romance Languages
Instructor: Dr. Elizabeth Bruno

ANTH 539 - Environmental Justice - Anthropology
Instructor: Dr. Flora Lu

SPAN 320 - Spanish Business and North Carolina Communities - Romance Languages
Instructor: Dr. Darcy Lear

AMST 259 - Tobacco and America – Department of American Studies
Instructor: Dr. Timothy Marr

COMM 562 – Performance and Oral History – Department of Communication Studies
Instructor: Dr. Della Pollock

JOMC XXX – Crisis Communication Management – School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Instructor: Dr. Elizabeth Dougall

RELI 99 - Perceptions, Prejudice, and Social Change - Department of Religious Studies
Instructor: Dr. Peter Kaufman

COMP 190 - Enabling Technologies - Department of Computer Science
Instructor: Gary Bishop

DHYG 74 - Dental Hygiene Service-Learning – School of Dentistry
Instructor: Charlotte Peterson, Deborah Fleming

ENG 006 - Ethics and Children’s Literature – Departmentof English
Instructor: Laurie Langbauer

GEOG 152 - Mobile Geographies - Department of Geography
Instructor: Altha Cravey

JOMC 191 - Intermediate Photo Journalism - School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Instructor: Patrick Davison

COMM 129 - Communicative and Social Cognitive Foundations of Hate – Department of Communication Studies
Instructor: Michael Waltman

EDUC 66L - Middle Grades Education (Lab) – School of Education
Instructor: Suzanne Gulledge

EDUC 100 - Literacy in the Community – School of Education
Instructor: Kathy Sikes

ENGL 06 - Multimedia North Carolina – Department of English
Instructor: Todd Taylor

ENST 35 - Environment and Society in the United States - Carolina Environmental Program
Instructor: Greg Gangi

N97/N98 - Nursing Honors Project: Service-Learning Section – School of Nursing
Instructor: Richard Redman, Katherine Moore

POLI 31 - Democracy and Citizenship - Department of Political Science
Instructor: Donald Searing

SPAN 51 - Conversation II – Department of Romance Languages
Instructor: Glynis Cowell, Patrick Akos

SPAN 053/054 - Hispanic Culture & Civilization–Department of Romance Languages
Instructor: Lucia Binotti

AMST 064/099 - Southern Jobs and International Competition- Department of American Studies
Instructor: Rachel Willis

BMME 220/290 - Developing Custom Devices for Individuals with Disabilities – Department of Biomedical Engineering
Instructor: Richard Goldberg

BUSI 100 - Business Communication - School of Business
Instructor: Judy Tisdale

COMM 123 - Organizational Communication - Department of Communication Studies
Instructor: Steve May

JOMC 191/134 - Public Relations Campaigns - School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Instructor: Pat Curtin

MEDI 496 - Community-Based Rural Health Care in Eastern, NC - School of Medicine
Instructor: Michael Pignone

PADM 22 - Public Affairs Dispute Resolution and Consensus-Building- Institute of Government
Instructor: John Stephens

POLI 076 - Violence Against Women: The Legal Perspective - Department of Political Science
Instructor: Donna LeFebvre

PSYC 104/160 - Autism - Department of Psychology
Instructor: Gladys Williams

SPAN 061 - Story telling, Multicultural Education, and Integration for Hispanic Preschoolers-Department of Romance Languages
Instructor: Lucia Binotti

ART 108/126/131 - Public Art- Department of Art
Instructor: Jim Hirschfield

CMPL 083H - Literature and Medicine-Comparative Literature
Instructor: Lillian Furst

EDUC 050 - Risk and Resiliency: Challenges & Opportunities in Education- School of Education
Instructor: John Galassi

HBHE 210 - Community Capacity, Competence and Power- School of Public Health
Instructors: Eugenia Eng and Ellen Smolker

HPAA 140 - “Local Applications and International Service-Learning” – School of Public Health
Instructor: Deborah Bender

JOMC 154 - Advanced Reporting- School of Journalism and Mass Communication Instructor: Deb Aikat

PLAN 110 - Department of City and Regional Planning
Instructor: Emil Malizia

POLI 132 - Health Policy and Politics- Department of Political Science
Instructors: Joel Schwartz and Jon Oberlander

SOCI 50/68 - Social Theory - Department of Sociology
Instructor: Charlie Kurzman

SPAN 050A - Advanced Grammar - Department of Romance Languages
Instructor: Julia Mack

ANTH 539 - Environmental Justice - Anthropology
Instructor: Dr. Flora Lu

This course will address local, national and international environmental justice issues. These issues bring attention to health and environmental risks associated within certain communities and places of work. Students will collaborate with a variety of non-profit organizations throughout North Carolina.

COMM 312 - Persuasion - Communication Studies
Instructor: Ms. Jessica Fifield

Students will acquire a working knowledge of contemporary theory and practice pertaining to attitude and behavior change. This course modifies the existing persuasion class by integrating service-learning into the curriculum. Students will volunteer with the Justice Theater Project, a community organization aiming to bring awareness of social justice issues.

ENST 207 - Internship in Sustainability - Carolina Environmental Program
Instructor: Dr. Douglas Crawford-Brown, Ms. Kathleen Gray

This course will introduce students to the principles of sustainability in real-world settings. By exploring sustainability in varied contexts, students will gain an understanding of the key dimensions of sustainability and will learn about the variety of organizations addressing these issues. Students will be placed with local governmental and environmental organizations.

INTS 390 - Comparative Development - International Studies
Instructor: Dr. Jonathan Weiler

This course will explore in depth the many challenges of development in a multiplicity of substantive and regional contexts. Students will begin to wrestle concretely with how they might approach development, both as students and engaged practitioners themselves. Students will volunteer at a variety of organizations supporting international development.

SPAN 320 - Spanish Business and North Carolina Communities - Romance Languages
Instructor: Dr. Darcy Lear

This course modifies the traditional Business Spanish class by integrating service-learning, practical professional skills and a unique perspective on culture training with the existing business Spanish curriculum. Students will volunteer with a variety of community organizations with an emphasis on entrepreneurship.

AMST 259 - “Tobacco and America” - American Studies
Instructor: Dr. Timothy Marr

This course examines the complex cultural significance of tobacco, a plant of great local importance to North Carolina, by placing it in a variety of historical and interdisciplinary contexts. Students will volunteer with various tobacco connected organizations, such as Quit Now NC and the Tobacco Farm Life Museum.

COMM 562 - “Performance and Oral History” - Communication Studies
Instructor: Dr. Della Pollock

This course will be discussion and performance-centered. It will explore the potential for performance to contribute to the understanding the complex experience of race, spirituality, and desegregation in Chapel Hill. It will complement archival and field research with learning in and through performance. Students will collaborate with local churches to capture various oral histories.

ENG 12 - “English Composition and Rhetoric” - English
Instructors: Dr. Jordynn Jack, Melissa Birkhofer, Heath Sledge

English 12 prepares students for academic writing across three disciplines: natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities. This course will focus on primary, hands-on research to encourage student writing that address various outside audiences. Students will collaborate with various non-profit organizations to create a research and writing materials.

INTS 290 - “International Education in K-12 Classrooms” - International Studies
Instructors: Ms. Tara Muller and Dr. Niklaus Steiner

Our most basic assumptions about the world and its people are shaped during our formative years as elementary and secondary school students. For many North Carolinians, the closest international experience they will encounter may be meeting a new immigrant, exchange student, or international outreach classroom presenter. This class is an investigation of international education in North Carolina classrooms and will explore best practices in teaching and public speaking techniques for integrating cultural knowledge, international issues and global perspectives into the K-12 curriculum.

JOMC XXX - “Crisis Communication Management” - Journalism and Mass Communication
Instructor: Dr. Elizabeth Dougall

All organizations experience crises. Crises interrupt organizational routines and attract extreme public and media scrutiny. This course will introduce principles of effective crisis management. Students will serve with non-profit or governmental organizations needing crisis communication assistance.

COMM/ENST 75 –Environmental Advocacy -Department of Communication Studies, Department of Environmental Studies

In this course, students will examine the strategies and tactics of those who seek to change our attitudes about environmental issues and our behaviors as consumers in a global and local context.

PHCY 040- Topical Issues in Health Science – School of Pharmacy
Instructor: Boka Hadzij, Ashley Sieman, Nikkia Shephard

Students will explore the service-learning pedagogy in depth by focusing on history, theory, and community partnerships. Teams of students will participate in Community Action Projects including needs assessment, program development, program implementation, program evaluation, research or any combination thereof.

RELI 30 - Poverty and Pluralism– Department of Religious Studies
Instructor: Peter Kaufman

This course considers the sources of social conflicts that stem from religious, racial, ethnic and cultural differences. It also attempts to identify the conditions that most expeditiously promote social reconciliation. This course studies conflicts throughout history and the world, and also here in North Carolina. Wednesday class period is spent volunteering with college bound students in Siler City.

SOCI 22 – Race and Ethnic Relations- Department of Sociology
Instructor: Tanya Golash-Boza, Matt Ezzell

This course, although about race and ethnic relations in general, will focus specifically on the experiences of African-Americans and Hispanic Americans, as well as sources of tension and alliances between these two groups. Through readings, discussion, and experiences in the community, students will come away from the course with an in-dpeth understanding of the issues that Latinos/as and African-Americans confront here in the community as well as across the nation.

SOWO 180- Community Organizing for Social Change- School of Social Work
Instructor: Marcie Fisher-Borne

SOWO 180 offers a “tool kit” of organizing and leadership skills necessary for both grassroots and agency-based social change efforts. It is designed to encourage more active citizen participation through tangible skills-building activities paired with a service-learning placement in an area community service agency.

COMP 190 - Enabling Technologies - Department of Computer Science
Instructor: Gary Bishop

This capstone course will enable students to experience the impact that their computer skills can have on people with special needs. Students learn about the issues and opportunities in enabling technology from both people with disabilities themselves and from the teachers and therapists who work with them. The course offers students the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the computer science learned in earlier courses by applying it to solving a real problem for client who needs their support.

DHYG 74 - Dental Hygiene and Service-Learning – School of Dentistry
Instructors: Charlotte Peterson, Deborah Fleming

This course is designed to provide the student with service-learning experiences to provide oral health screenings, patient education/oral hygiene instructions, and referral services in community-based setting serving special needs individuals. The course will allow the student to integrate and apply a broad scope of curriculum content knowledge and clinical skills in a community-based setting. Faculty mentors will facilitate the service-learning opportunities with those students selected for participation in this course. The students will develop independent honors projects designed to meet the needs of the community organizations’ clients.

ENG 006 - Ethics and Children’s Literature – Department ofEnglish
Instructor: Laurie Langbauer

Children’s literature cuts to the heart of the reasons people really read: children turn to books to make sense of themselves and the world. People turn to ethics when they come across central questions of existence and conduct they don’t know how to answer. This course will attempt to learn from children and to adopt an individual stance toward reading from them: when I enter this book, who am I? Students will not come to find any definitive answers to such ethical dilemmas but will operate with the ethical understanding that important questions are never fully settled; they remain open. Students have the choice of various community sites in order to experience the practical, social and developmental dilemmas faced by children everyday.

GEOG 152 - Mobile Geographies – Department of Geography
Instructor: Altha Cravey

Mobile Geographies seeks to understand the contemporary experience of migrants. The course will focus on the lives of Latino and Latinas who have migrated to North Carolina in recent years as well as exploring local social change, trans-nationality, trans-locality, globalization, and related theoretical concerns. How are the politics of identity and place-identity caught up in local experiences? Do Latino/as establish parallel worlds in the United States South? Do geographies of work determine the pattern of settlement for new migrants? These questions will be contextualized in this course by examining historical and geographical changes in global and regional migratory impulses.

JOMC 191.12 - Intermediate Photo Journalism - School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Instructor: Patrick Davison

This course seeks to expand you arsenal of photographic “tools” by teaching you how to use artificial light. The course hopes to enable students to understand and apply the fundamentals of lighting in photojournalism and should enhance any beginners’ photojournalism portfolio. Students will learn to see photographically and develop a personal style. The course will also increase student learning through the experience of teaching Special Olympics athletes.

COMM 129 - Communicative and Social Cognitive Foundations of Hate – Department of Communication Studies
Instructor: Michael Waltman

The purpose of this course is to expose students to the nature of hate in American life. As we attempt to understand the essential quality of hate we learn that hate is made possible through communication (sometimes in the form of speech) and human perception (sometimes in the forms of stereotypes and bias). We will learn that hate may also be combated through communication. Just as students can learn to be vigilant to the presence of hate in their own lives they can also learn to help other people be vigilant to the hate and intolerance that may threaten their communities through their work with community organizations.

EDUC 66L - Middle Grades Education (Lab) – School of Education
Instructor: Suzanne Gulledge

The goal of this course is to engage undergraduate students and prospective middle grades teachers in field experiences in area middle schools. Students participate in on-campus and on-line seminars in addition to their work in local middle schools. It is expected that this course will provide a service-learning opportunity for pre-service teachers, for undergraduates who might be considering teaching as a profession, and for other students who have an interest in being of service in the community around the university through well organized and supportive program in area middle schools.

EDUC 100 - Literacy in the Community – School of Education
Instructor: Kathy Sikes

This course examines literacy learning and teaching with a focus on empowerment and social justice. The historical and political contexts of education, along with current trends, research and policy will be discussed. The class will explore topics such as basic literacy teaching, immigration and citizenship, culture, race, poverty, gender issues, family, workplace, technology, and learning disabilities. Students are then required to complete a 3-5 hour/week service placement as a part of the course as well.

ENGL 06 - Multimedia North Carolina – Department of English
Instructor: Todd Taylor

In this course, each student will author a documentary about a current issue important to North Carolinians. For example, a student may be interested in one of the state’s environmental problems or about housing for the rapidly growing Hispanic population. Each documentary will be published one the World Wide Web and will incorporate text, photographs, audio, and video composed by the students. In these documentaries, students will tell creative, well-researched, carefully crafted, true stories of intriguing people and places in terms of how they relate to a pressing issue. The goals of the course are for native and non-native students alike to deepen their understanding and appreciation of the state, to improve their writing skills, and to conduct research with immediate, real-world connections.

ENST 35 - Environmental and Society Practicum - Carolina Environmental Program
Instructor: Greg Gangi

This course will explore changing human-environmental relations from a variety of social, geographical, and historical settings. The course will introduce students to the social context of environmental issues and provide them with exposure to diverse aspects of human-environmental relationships so that students who are pursuing a major or minor in environmental studies can better design their future plan of studies. An additional goal of the course is to allow students to better understand the link between environmental problems, cultural behaviors, public policies, corporate decision-making, and citizen and consumer behavior.

N97/N98 - Nursing Honors Project: Service-Learning Section – School of Nursing
Instructors: Richard Redman, Katherine Moore

This section of the Nursing Honors Program will provide students with a service-learning experience focused on establishing a tutoring and mentoring program for disadvantaged students in area high schools. Qualified and interested senior students will be guided through this independent study honors project by a faculty mentor. Upon completion of the course, the learner will be able to engage in dialogue about nursing, service-learning, and social justice issues with persons uninformed about these concepts. Students will also be able to assess and critique the social factors and structures (institutional, interpersonal, cultural, sociopolitical and financial) that exaggerate the life circumstances among the disadvantaged students served by the service-learning project.

POLI 31 - Democracy and Citizenship - Department of Political Science
Instructor: Donald Searing

This service-learning course examines the experience of citizenship in modern democracies. Its topics, which are addressed by both philosophers and social scientists, concern the tensions between liberalism and democracy and, in particular, the impact of individualism upon relationships between citizens and their political communities. The course will focus primarily on civic aspects of citizenship rather than on the electoral side. It will examine basic issues at the heart of public life: liberty, community, authority, tolerance, rights, duties and citizen identities. The principal goal of the course is to encourage you to think carefully about these issues and to examine them in the context of meaningful service to organization in the local community.

SPAN 51 - Conversation II – Department of Romance Languages
Instructors: Glynis Cowell, Patrick Akos

This course provides students with an immediate, real-world context for language application and practice, and to heighten their awareness and understanding of the United States. Latino community and the challenges Latino students face in the school system. The course offers students an in-depth exploration of Latino identity through materials produced by and for Latinos in the United States. For example, students will consider television programming, film, magazines, music and local Latino newspapers. Students will also be exposed to the significant challenges Latino students and families face in the American education system.

SPAN 053/054 - Hispanic Culture & Civilization – Department of Romance Languages
Instructor: Lucia Binotti

This course is a survey of the cultures of Mexico, Central America ( Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and the Andean Region (with an emphasis on Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru). Students will also study Latinos in the United States. Student presentations on current events, in addition to active participation in class are an integral part of this course. The course will approach a variety of themes—colonialism, ethnicity, gender, modernization, popular culture, race and religion—by exploring Latin American art, film, music, and social practices. Students will develop an understanding of individual countries and of the way each country forms part of the complex identity called Latin America.

AMST 064/099 - Southern Jobs and International Competition - Department of American Studies
Instructor: Rachel Willis

This course focuses on the impact of international competition, labor markets, and educational institutions on employee access to work. Special attention will be given to impact on local and regional economies in the southeastern United States. Students will be focusing on southern US manufacturing jobs in sectors facing intense global economic pressure for labor markets, product markets, and technology; the course will investigate a multitude of factors affecting workers’ access to employment from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will then have the opportunity to apply these themes to their work with local community agencies.

BMME 220/290 – Developing Custom Devices for Individuals with Disabilities – Department of Biomedical Engineering
Instructor: Richard Goldberg

This course will provide a practical engineering experience as well as a personally rewarding experience to you; this may also encourage you to use your specialized skills in the future to benefit individuals with disabilities. Students will help individuals become more independent by designing and building custom assistive technology devices to address the individuals’ needs. The course will also facilitate learning and reflection about the daily life of an individual who has a disability, as well as the daily lives of the family members, therapists and teachers who are in close contact with them.

BUSI 100 – Business Communication – Kenan-Flagler Business School
Instructor: Judy Tisdale

Success in the business world requires effective oral and written communication skills. As industries and organizations move to global and electronic methods of business, the need for businesspeople to communicate concisely within specialized fields and the general business community becomes more critical. This course gives students opportunities to generate and analyze different types of business communication and provides the benefit of polishing the writing and presentation skills that are necessary for meeting professional goals. Students will partner with non-profit organizations in the Chapel Hill community to apply the writing and presentation skills they learn in BUSI 100 to address oral and written communication needs in the agencies. Students will assist agency clients in developing necessary projects such as funding proposals, specialized marketing and sales letters, informational brochures, or PowerPoint presentations.

COMM 123 - Organizational Communication - Department of Communication Studies
Instructor: Steve May

This course is designed to show how we can better understand organizational communication through the medium of different images -or metaphors- of organizations. Each image or metaphor draws attention to unique features of organizational communication and provides a distinctive means of understanding diverse organizational situations that you may experience in the future. The course is designed to show how executives, managers, consultants, human resource personnel, or any other organizational members can use these images of organizational communication as tools for informing and guiding action. This course will provide the student with hands-on learning experiences in organizational communication consulting with “real-world” organizations in the Triangle area.

JOMC 191/134 - Public Relations Campaigns - School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Instructor: Pat Curtin

The Public Relations Campaigns class is the capstone course in the public relations sequence. The course is designed for seniors and master’s students to apply what they have learned in the major to date by developing an integrated strategic public relations plan to address a client issue. Because most of the students in the course were not familiar with the finance counseling and debt management services offered by the community partner, the pairing of course content and community service was indicative of work in a public relations firm; public relations professionals must be able to come up to speed quickly on any issue or service to be able to meet client needs.

MEDI 496 – Community-Based Rural Health Care in Eastern, NC - School of Medicine
Instructor: Michael Pignone

This elective course is designed for members of the NC Student Rural Health Coalition who are participating in the support of the monthly health clinics in Bloomer Hill and Garysburg, NC. This class is designed as a monthly seminar with a significant amount of required field experience and two projects: the development of a community health education project and a journal detailing the student’s experiences in working in the monthly clinics. It will also orient students to many of the health issues facing disenfranchised residents of Eastern North Carolina, and will provide an introduction to community-oriented primary care.

PADM 22 - Public Affairs Dispute Resolution and Consensus-Building - Institute of Government
Instructor: John Stephens

This course investigates the theory and practice of dispute resolution and consensus-building on public policy and program implementation. Federal, state and local case studies are employed to help develop skills in multi-party conflict analysis, assessment for dispute resolution intervention, and negotiation and facilitation processes. The course will help students understand the social trends and philosophies prompting greater interest and innovation in seeking consensus solutions to social problems and use of new methods for resolving public disputes.

POLI 076 – Violence against Women: The Legal Perspective - Department of Political Science
Instructor: Donna LeFebvre

Violence against women ranges from intimidation and psychological violence to physical battering and death. This course looks at theories, causes and contributing factors surrounding violence against women and examines the responses to this violence from medical and public health agencies; from the police; from judges and district attorneys; and from community support agencies. The emphasis in the class is on law and how the legal system responds to violence against women. The class will critically examine how courts, Congress and state legislatures have reacted to violence against women. The course will research and recommend changes in the laws which are essential for victims to obtain justice under the law. In addition, we will study and do volunteer work at community agencies that provide support, counseling, medical care and other assistance to victims. These agencies might include rape crisis centers, battered women’s centers and shelters, hospital and public health clinic services; and women’s resource centers.

PSYC 104/160 - Autism - Department of Psychology
Instructor: Gladys Williams

This course is designed to provide the opportunity to study autism through coursework and through working with individuals with autism in supervised community placements. Topics include an historical perspective on autism, issues in classifications and diagnoses, current theories about etiology, assessing an understanding patterns of functioning (with an emphasis on social, communication, and cognitive skills), developmental and lifespan issues, family concerns, service provision, and intervention approaches.

SPAN 061- Story telling, Multicultural Education, and Integration for Hispanic Preschoolers - Department of Romance Languages
Instructor: Lucia Binotti

This course is aimed at developing creative, expressive and communicative skills in Spanish for college students who plan a career in education, while also supplying some simple tools for a preschool-level teacher as well. The course can be seen as a creative writing course or as a translation course depending on the students’ decision to either create their own narrative or identify a pre-existing one to translate into Spanish. Students will work to develop not only their proficiency in Spanish but they will also experiment with more sophisticated literary crafts, such as questions of narrative voice, space and time, development of characters, hidden and explicit messages, etc. Students will also meet with an assigned kindergarten teacher once a week outside of class to assess their class needs and expectations.

ART 108/126/131 - Public Art - Department of Art
Instructor: Jim Hirschfield

Public art programs are blossoming across the United States with every state having its own public arts commission and hundreds of cities and towns with their own public art organizations as well. The goal of this course is to introduce students to the genre and world of public art through readings, lectures, discussions, and projects. This class is a hands on “art making” class that also examines the history and the “nuts and bolts” of public art.

CMPL 083H - Literature and Medicine - Comparative Literature
Instructor: Lillian Furst

The course offers students knowledge of the history of medicine in the past 150 years. Students are also exposed to contemporary issues through the writings of practicing physicians. The community experience gives the students direct exposure to work in a health-related environment. Students bring their experiences into the discussions of the readings and the readings can also help them understand their experiences as well.

EDUC 050 - Risk and Resiliency: Challenges & Opportunities in Education - School of Education
Instructor: John Galassi

The objectives of this course are for students to examine and develop a greater understanding of factors (e.g. poverty, ethnic and cultural factors, language differences, etc.) that put school-age children at risk for educational failure, school drop-out, etc. Students will also examine the interventions which show promise in helping to reduce risk and/or insulate children from these factors. The course includes both an academic and a service-learning component. The latter involves an experiential exposure to procedures for overcoming these factors though community and educational interventions which assist at-risk students and their families.

HBHE 210 - Community Capacity, Competence and Power - School of Public Health
Instructors: Eugenia Eng and Ellen Smolker

In this course, participants will be engaged in interactive learning about community-based participatory action research (PAR), an approach to inquiry that centers on community strengths and issues, and provides people with the means to conduct systematic investigation for the purposes of education and taking systematic action to resolve specific problems. Throughout the semester, a fieldwork project using photography will generate critical thinking about the methodological contexts of public health research and their shifting “locations of power” during the various stages of the PAR process.

HPAA 140 - Local Applications and International Service-Learning – School of Public Health
Instructor: Deborah Bender

This reflection seminar purposefully links students' international service-learning experience with local realities in North Carolina. Students participating in the APPLES International Service-Learning Program in Guadalajara, Mexico will reflect on that summer experience while working with immigrant Latino youth in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools. The seminar will be a success if reflections on the two experiences result in increased understanding of the challenges posed by immigration and our renewed commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations. This course is restricted to those students who previously participated in the APPLES International Service-Learning Program in Guadalajara, Mexico. This course is supported by a grant through the University Center for International Studies.

JOMC 154 - Advanced Reporting - School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Instructor: Deb Aikat

This course will teach students how to utilize the Internet and the World Wide Web as information sources and tools to facilitate better reporting. Students will also develop an understanding of social, legal, political, and other issues relating to the access and use of the Internet. This course will enable students to report current events in the digital world that are shaping our lives today.

PLAN 110 - Department of City and Regional Planning
Instructor: Emil Malizia

This course was taught in conjunction with a graduate community development application course. The purpose of the course was to enable second-year planning students to apply their knowledge and skills to a real-world problem through a community client. The area of focus was southwest-central Durham. The client was the Durham Community Land Trust.

POLI 132 - Health Policy and Politics - Department of Political Science
Instructors: Joel Schwartz and Jon Oberlander

This course focuses on issues and political dynamics in American medical care. The aim is to enable students to understand the historical development of the health system and to think systematically about contemporary problems in health policy. The course is intended to prepare students to participate knowledgeably in the national conversation on health policy.

SOCI 50/68 - Social Theory - Department of Sociology
Instructor: Charlie Kurzman

This course is intended to help students develop tools for practicing social theory more self-consciously and more effectively. These tools are paradigms, theories and concepts, and students will study them through short excerpts from important work in social theory, through class lecture and discussion, and through outside research that students will perform on their own.

SPAN 050A - Advanced Grammar - Department of Romance Languages
Instructor: Julia Mack

Spanish 50A is a grammar and composition course that further prepares students for upper-level Spanish courses and programs in the University. The objective of the class is to practice grammar and writing consistently and in an organized fashion. SPAN 50A studies grammatical rules through a structured series of exercises. Community placements will allow students to serve as interpreters and facilitators in a variety of settings.