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

Service-Learning Courses
Spring 2008 Courses

AMST 057 (001) “Access to Higher Education”
Rachel Willis
This APPLES course explores barriers to access to American colleges and universities with a particular focus on disadvantages created through differences in socioeconomic circumstances. An active service-learning pedagogy will facilitate the development, implementation, and documentation of the team project. As a Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative offering, this FYS has an additional goal of developing the social entrepreneurial skills of seminar students.

ANTH 093 (Section 001) “UNITAS”
Joseph Wiltberger, Alice Brooke Wilson

UNITAS is the first of a two-semester course that explores issues of social and cultural diversity including class, gender, race, religion, sexuality, and ethnicity. This is a unique living and learning program that creates a first-hand diversity experience.

BIOL 490 (Section 001) “Principles and Methods of Teaching Biology”
Jennifer Coble
Students will learn about innovative methods for teaching biology and strategies that allow these methods to be a reality within the contexts of current public high school science classrooms.

Prerequisites, BMME 465 or permission of the instructor. Students will design an assistive technology device to help individuals with disabilities to become more independent. The project will be used in the community when it is completed.

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.

COM 669 (Section 004) “The Ethnographic (Re)Turn”
Della Pollock
In this course, we will explore this mandate in praxis. We will specifically focus on developing the expanding opportunities for return set in motion by partnership with St. Joseph’s C.M.E. on Rosemary St., a largely African-American church that has been a two-year partner in study and service for students enrolled in Communication Studies 562, “Performance and Oral History.” Students in this course have been dedicated to exploring the life of the church and its members in the wake of desegregation.

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.

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 their world. People turn to ethics when they come across central questions of existence and conduct they don’t know how to answer. In this class, we will attempt to learn from children, to adopt an ethical stance toward reading from them: when I enter this book, who am I?

ENGL 102i (Section 011) “English Composition and Rhetoric”
Heath Sledge
This APPLES composition course, in partnership with Student Health's Counseling and Wellness Services (CWS), will be focused on student attitudes towards sexuality and relationship. You will be trained in conducting focus groups, and will interview other students in order to identify areas of interest and concern relating to sexuality and relationships. Please be aware that these discussions may be frank! If you are interested in web design, there will be some limited opportunities to run focus groups on CWS's website as well. The final project of the semester will be to create content for CWS' website based on the information you elicited in your focus groups.

This class will be partnered with a local organization who has identified a need for students to address during the semester. There will be significant independent and collaborative work in this class.

GEOG 452 (Section 001) "Mobilizing Geographies"
Altha Cravey
This course explores the contemporary experience of migrants. Various theoretical approaches are introduced, with the emphasis on a political economic approach. This course fulfills a College of Arts and Science Social Science requirement.

HNRS 352 (Section 001) “Building Educational Bridges For Our New Urban Students”
Jim Johnson
This course will afford students the opportunity to utilize intellectual and socio-cultural skills to help “bridge” the educational gap in the lives of a cadre of our new urban students. Through formal mentoring and tutorial components, program participants are exposed to a wide range of academic and social enrichments commencing when they enter the sixth grade and continuing until they graduate from high school. Students will be actively involved in the provision of academic and social supports through mentoring and tutoring with the Durham Scholars Program.

INLS 235 (Section 235) “Digital Libraries”
Jeffrey Pomerantz
Research and development issues in digital libraries, including collection development and digitization; mixed mode holdings; access strategies and interfaces; metadata and interoperability; economic and social policies; and management and evaluation.

This course will explore the local and global connection between Carrboro, North Carolina and Celaya, Mexico. This course includes a service-learning trip to Celaya during spring break.

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.

JOMC 232 (Section 001, 002, 003, 004) “Public Relations Writing”
Larry Lamb, Lois Boynton, Valerie Fields, Queenie Byars

JOMC 232 covers major communicative tools of the public relations trade including news releases, features, speeches, pitch letters, fact sheets, public service announcements, and more.

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.

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.

Basic principles of physics with introduction to quantum physics, atoms, nuclei, and relativity. Not to be taken for credit after PHYS 104-105 or 116-117. Three lecture and two laboratory hours a week.

PSYC 245 (Section 006) “Child Psychopathology”
Beril Ulku-Steiner
This course explores major forms of behavior disorders in children and adults, with an emphasis on description, causation, and treatment. Service-learning is an option for students.

PSYC 250 (Section 002, 003, 004, 005, 006) "Child Development"
Deanna Larus, Kristi Copping, Ndidi Okeke, Dana Wood, Kelly Purtell

Building upon material presented in Psychology 10 (general psychology), which is a prerequisite for this course, Psychology 24 provides students with an overview of the major themes of child development. Our aim is to introduce the empirical findings, theories, and research methods of child development, placing particular emphasis on the child's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development from infancy through adolescence. Students have the option to enroll in an additional service-learning section.

PSYC 500 (Section 002) “Adult Psychopathology”
Beril Ulku-Steiner
This course offers an in-depth analysis of major theoretical issues in personality study. Service-learning is an option for students.

Topics include historical perspectives on autism, issues in classification and diagnosis, current etiological theories, assessing and understanding patterns of functioning (emphasizing social, communication, and cognitive skills), developmental and lifespan issues, family concerns, service provision, and intervention approaches.

The course offers participants a unique opportunity to experience a multi-disciplinary approach to AIDS - its etiology, immunology, epidemiology and impact on individuals and society. How a society looks at AIDS determines not only how sick persons are treated but also the degree to which the rights of the individual are upheld. Permission of instructor is needed to register, interested students can contact Vanessa White, vanessa_white@dentistry.unc.edu.

PUBH 690.961/NURS 699 (Section 611) “Interdisciplinary Service Learning Trip”

Nursing students will join students from the School of Public Health and the Schools of Pharmacy and Social work and other professional community partners on an interdisciplinary service trip to participate in community service on public health projects such as environmental assessments or the identification of public health interventions.

RELI 163 (Section 001) “Poverty and Pluralism”
Peter Kaufman
RELI 30 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. Students must volunteer one day a week (Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday) from 1-4:15pm in educational settings in Siler City (students typically carpool). Interested students should contact Amy Kapral at kapral@email.unc.edu.

SOCI 68 (Section 001) “Immigration in Contemporary America"
Jacqueline Hagan
Contemporary international migration is transforming politics, economics, social relations, and ethnic identities in societies throughout the world. This first-year seminar course is designed to introduce students to the fascinating and ever-changing study of immigration in contemporary America.

SOCI 290, (Section 002) “Human Rights Cities”
Judith Blau
The purpose of this class is to begin a process of moving Chapel Hill and Carrboro into a process of becoming Human Rights Cities, according to international human rights law and standards.

Karolyn Tyson
An overview of theory and research on education and schooling, with an emphasis on inequalities in educational opportunities, education as a social institution, and the changing context of schools and schooling. This course fulfills a College of Arts and Science Social Science requirement.

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. This course is for upper-level undergraduate and requires permission of the instructor. Please email Marcie Fisher-Borne at fisherm@email.unc.edu for information.

SOWO 719 (Section 105) "APPLES Spring Internships Course"
Traci Wike
APPLES Spring Internships provide selected students with an opportunity to gain professional experience at a local non-profit community organization. Spring Interns serve throughout the semester, while enhancing their experience with instructor-guided reflection and deeper exploration of local and global social justice issues.

Emphasis in this course is placed on increasing the scope of communication and mastering linguistic accuracy in all the skills while serving the Local Latino Community. For their community service, students will receive an extra one hour for SPAN 293.

SPAN 300H (Section 001) "Advanced Grammar and Composition"
Julia Mack
Spanish 300H 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.

Designed to expand speaking skills through conversational activities, discussion of authentic readings, and associated vocabulary building. Emphasis also on continued development of writing skills. Students will be placed in local middle schools to tutor Latino students as part of the service commitment.

Students will learn vocabulary and grammar related to business settings, as well as develop written and oral skills in Spanish.

Alternative Spring Breaks provide an avenue for students to perform service activities across North Carolina, the Southeast, and the Mid-Atlantic. Each group is led by student organizers advised by university staff and works collaboratively to assess and address the needs of their destination community before leaving for their trip. Throughout the alternative break experience, students will also have the opportunity to reflect upon their experiences and to explore deeper issues relating to the community.

Christina Perry
The peer tutoring program offers successful students, with a gpa of 3.0 or better, the chance to serve their fellow students through tutoring in one or more subjects. Interested students must apply to the program the semester prior to that in which they will tutor.

To obtain contact information for the current Courses Chair, please refer to the APPLES' Organizers directory.