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

Service-Learning Courses
Fall 2007 Courses

AMST 259 (Section 001) "Tobacco and America"
Timothy Mar marr@email.unc.edu

This interdisciplinary APPLES course examines a plant of great local importance to focus on changing histories of land use, social style, leisure, marketing, public health, and global capitalism. We will explore different cultures of tobacco in America ranging from traditional Native American ceremony, to the economy of the South, up to recent battles in the courts. The course will consider diverse perspectives from agriculture, epidemiology, literature, popular music and film, folklore, labor and legal history, advertising and material culture. Please note that the central learning in this course will emerge from an engaged long-term service project with a community institution addressing key tobacco-related issues in North Carolina today.

ANTH 092 (Section 001) “UNITAS”
Joseph Wiltberger jwilt@email.unc.edu

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.

ANTH 539 (Section 001) “Environmental Justice”
Flora Lu Holt flora@email.unc.edu

This course examines issues of race, poverty and equity in the environmental movement. Cases include the siting of toxic incinerators in predominantly people-of-color communities to resource exploitation on indigenous lands.

This is a writing-and speaking-intensive course that emphasizes professional communication. Combines lecture, discussion, and draft workshops that focus on letters, memos, reports, resumes, email, and business presentations.

CHEM 245L (401,402) "Service-Learning Based Analytical Methods Laboratory Course"
Domenic Tiani tiani@email.unc.edu

This lab was developed in partnership with the APPLES Service Learning Program in order to expose students to real world analysis problems. For the fall 2007 semester students will work with OWASA on a variety of watershed studies. Group work will be emphasized. Students will work in both the lab and out in the field performing a wide variety of analysis.

This course examines contemporary theory and practice of influencing others' attitudes, beliefs, and actions with a particular focus on analyzing and developing persuasive messages.

COMM 629 (Section 002) “Communicative and Social Cognitive Foundations of Hate”
Mike Waltman waltmanm@email.unc.edu

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 will learn that hate is made possible through communication (sometimes in the form of hate speech) and human perception (sometimes in the forms of stereotypes and bias).

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.

Nearly one in seven Americans has a significant disability; should they be exceptions? Through readings, guest lectures, videos, and projects we will explore the legal, moral, cultural, and technical issues and opportunities raised by this "minority you can join at any time". We will focus on ways that computer technology can be used to mitigate the effects of disabilities and the sometimes surprising response of those we intended to help. We will work together with teachers, experts and individuals with disabilities to develop ideas and content for new enabling technologies. Previous computer experience is helpful but not required; creativity, ability to think "outside the box", and the desire to make the world a bit better are more important.

EDUC 467 (Section 001) "Middle Grades Education"
Suzanne Gulledge sgulledg@email.unc.edu

The goal of this course is to engage prospective middle grades (6-9) teachers who have been admitted to the School of Education in service-learning field experiences in area middle schools.

EDUC 601 (Section 001) "Service-Learning for Educators"
Heather Coffey hcoffey@email.unc.edu

This is a required course for the junior Teaching Fellows. I hope students will learn more about the community in which they live and serve. Students will also learn to be reflective and understand the social context of their partnership with the community agency.

ENGL 102 (Section 019) “English Composition and Rhetoric”
Kim Gibbs klgibbs@email.unc.edu

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

ENST 205 (Section 001) "Environment and Society in the United States"
Andrew George andrewg@unc.edu

This is a rather unique seminar concerned with probing diverse and changing responses of American society to its environment. It is the goal of this class to give students a clearer sense of the role that the environment has played in shaping US society and the role that our society plays in producing environmental change around the world

HNRS 352 (Section 001) “Building Educational Bridges For Our New Urban Students”
Jim Johnson jim_johnson@unc.edu

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.

INTS 290 (Section 001) “International Education in K-12 Classrooms”
Tara Muller tara_muller@unc.edu

This experiential learning course combines guest speakers, discussion and hands-on workshops to build public speaking skills and investigate effective methods of teaching international education in K-12 school systems across North Carolina.

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.

JOMC 459 (Section 001) “Community Journalism”
Jock Lauterer jock@email.unc.edu

Prerequisite, JOMC 153. Comprehensive study of the community press, including policies, procedures, and issues surrounding the production of smaller newspapers within the context of the community in its social and civic setting.

PHCY 040A (Section 001) “Topical Issues in Health Sciences”
Nikkia Sheppard nsheppar@email.unc.edu

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.

POLI 206H (001) “Ethics, Morality, Liberty and the Law”
Donna LeFebvre lefebvre@unc.edu

This course introduces students to moral and ethical issues that arise when individual rights conflict with the law and the central role race plays in American society's response.

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.z

PSYC 465 (Section 001) “Poverty and Development”
Lorraine Taylor lctaylor@email.unc.edu

Poverty is one of the most consistent and influential risk factors for problematic development across the life span. This course examines the impact of poverty and family economic hardship on human development. This semester, an optional service learning opportunity will be available for interested students.

PSYC 504 (Section 001) “Health Psychology”
Jeannie Loeb loeb@unc.edu

An in-depth overview of the social, psychological, behavioral, and neuroendocrine factors involved with the state of well-being or disease.

SOCI 131 (Section 001) “Social Relations in the Workplace”
Judith Blau jrblau@email.unc.edu

This course will focus on workers' rights, a decent job, and fair wages. To the extent possible, we will meet with university employees - housekeepers, groundskeepers, hospital workers - to learn more about work and the work lives of people in our community. We will study the standards of the International Labour Organization in order to learn what the international standards are about working conditions, and safety and health in the workplace. We will also study the Brazilian Constitution that has detailed provisions about workers' rights, and examine labor law in the US.

SOCI 273 (Section 001) “Social and Economic Justice”
Judith Blau jrblau@email.unc.edu

This is course examines human rights in the broad sense of the term, including socioeconomic, cultural and environmental rights, along with comparing involving liberalism and communitarianism. This course is required for Social and Economic Justice minors. This course fulfills a General College Social Science requirement. www.unc.edu/~jrblau

SOCI 423, (Section 001) “Sociology of Education”
Karolyn Tyson kdtyson@email.unc.edu

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 490 (Section 001) "Public Service and Social Change"
Marcie Fisher-Bourne fisherm@email.unc.edu

This course examines the role of volunteer involvement and citizen participation in community development, grassroots organizing, advocacy and other efforts to create a more just and democratic society.

SPAN 203 (Section 022) “Intermediate Spanish for Health Care Professionals”
Darcy Lear lear@email.unc.edu

Spanish 203 interweaves culture, language instruction, and health care material. Students perform a variety of exercises and activities designed to strengthen each of these areas. The objective of the course is to bring down barriers to communication. In order to accomplish this goal, students combine their academic coursework with a community service placement.

SPAN 204 (Section 010) “Intermediate Spanish"
Bill Maisch maisch@unc.edu

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

SPAN 265 (Section 001, 002) “Spanish for the Professions
Darcy Lear lear@email.unc.edu
Hosun Kim hosunk@email.unc.edu

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

SPAN 300H (Section 001) "Advanced Grammar and Composition"
Julia Mack hispana@email.unc.edu

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.

The Peer Tutoring Program offers students, with a GPA of 3.0 (or higher), the chance to serve fellow students through tutoring one or more subjects. Interested students must apply during the semester prior to that in which they will tutor.

WMST 562H, (Section 001) “Performance and Oral History”
Della Pollock Communication Studies pollock@email.unc.edu

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