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

Service-Learning Courses
Partnership Grants

Students and community partners connected to an APPLES course are eligible to apply for a Partnership Grant. These grants are intended to benefit the community partner and deepen the service-learning experience for a student. APPLES is offering up to 10 Partnership Grants of up to $100 each for the current semester. These grants fund supplementary materials for enhancement projects relating to the community partner. These grants must be submitted with both a student and community partner signature.
Partnership Grant Application

For examples of projects and more information about the grant application process, view the application. This grant has a rolling application deadline, but keep in mind that grants are awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis to qualified applicants.

ANTH 499: Action Research, Instructor: Charles Price
Student: Tyler Davis, Eva Jone, Brandalynn Sampson
Through this course the theory, practice and art of action research will be learned and demonstrated through collaboration with the campus organization FLO Foods. Students in this course will advocate a healthier lifestyle through the promotion of FLO Foods. By targeting the general student body at UNC, their campaign will bring awareness concerning fair, local and organically grown foods. Their campaign will consist of posting flyers, cube painting in the pit, and taste-test centers throughout campus.

COMM 312: Persuasion, Instructor: Jessica Fifield
Student: Ashley Bell, Kyle Jolly, Amy McClellon
COM312 is a course that focuses on learning different persuasive techniques and implementing them into everyday life. Students in COM312 will be working with AVID, an organization that provides academic support for underprivileged children and provides celebration parties at the end of each academic term for kids who make honor roll. COM312 would like to support this end of year celebration by donating food, supplies, and volunteer power.

COMM 562: Oral History and Performance, Instructor: Della Pollock
Student: Marjorie Hazeltine, Maria Facelli, Crister Brady
COM562 has been awarded 3 separate grants to purchase gas cards in support of the UNC NOW St. Joseph’s Bread Ministry. The 3 gas cards are to be donated to the Ministry. St. Joseph’s runs a food bank, or Bread Ministry, out of the church with food that would otherwise be thrown away by local grocery stores. Each morning church members and volunteers drive to groceries throughout the community to pick up the discarded food, the food is then sorted and anything unusable is distributed to local pig farmers. The Bread Ministry is open daily and serves roughly 500 families a week.

ENG 102: Composition and Rhetoric, Instructor: Kimberly Burnett
Student: Marisa Lee
This ENG102 class works with Heirs Project to help spread awareness about social injustice in the community. Students in ENG 102 are to be awarded 2 separate grants to complete their project. Student in ENG 102 are creating a skit on behalf of the Heirs Project to spread awareness of the organization and their mission. The performance will be about social justice and will include information on how to get involved with Heirs. The students would like to publicize this event through brochures and fliers. Snacks and refreshments will also be provided at this event.

JOMC 232: Public Relations Writing, Instructor: Queenie Byars
Student: Mary Katherine Dowd
PR Writing is a skill based writing course that gives students an opportunity to learn and practice writing skills in the community. Students in PR Writing will be working with The Arc of Orange County to create an “APPLES on Thursdays” course that combines social, educational and fine motor skills learning to individuals within The Arc program.

MUSC 269: Music in the Community, Instructor: David Garcia
Student: Thao Nghi Bui, Jenny Qin, Christina Wu
Students in MUSC269 are interested in providing students at Glenwood Elementary School with information about Chinese Music. This will include dance, instruments, music history, and of course song. The MUSC269 students would like to help the elementary schoolers discover more about China through music. To conclude the semester a showcase event will be held in which elementary students can display what they have learned.

MUSC 269: Music in the Community, Instructor: David Garcia
Student: John Ealy
Students in MUSC269 will hold an African Fair Trade coffee sampling session; a film screening about economic injustices facing Ethiopian farmers will be offered during the session. Entertainment will be provided by a Ghanian drumming performance. Students will also hold a Latin American Fair Trade coffee sampling session; a film screening about the lives of impoverished Nicaraguan coffee growers will be offered during the session. Entertainment will be provided by Cuban and Mexican musical artists.

POLI 206: Morals Ethics Individual Liberty and the Law, Instructor: Donna LeFebvre
Student: Kathleen Ellison
POLI 206 will hold a domestic violence awareness day in a central location on the UNC Chapel Hill Campus. They will distribute information on the Beacon Program. The Beacon Program is an initiative of UNC Hospitals that aims to end domestic violence. Domestic Violence occurs in 1 out of 4 women in Orange County; 3 victims call the Orange County Sheriff’s Department EVERY night. POLI 206 would like to help support the Beacon program in its mission to end domestic violence by setting up an awareness table with resources and volunteer sign-ups.

POLI 206: Morals Ethics Individual Liberty and the Law, Instructor: Donna LeFebvre
Student: Josh Peterson
POLI 206 will hold a second domestic violence awareness day in a central location on the UNC Chapel Hill Campus. They will distribute information on the Beacon Program, as well as information on safe dating practices. The Beacon Program is an initiative of UNC Hospitals that aims to end domestic violence. POLI 206 would like to help support the Beacon program in its mission to end domestic violence by setting up an awareness table with resources and volunteer sign-ups. Food will also be offered at this event.

ROML 060: Spanish and Entrepreneurship, Instructor: Darcy Lear
Student: Joshua Quinones, Whitney Stephenson, Jacob Kerber, Allison Coppock, Jessica Owens
Students enrolled in ROML060 learn how to apply their knowledge of the Spanish language and culture to entrepreneurial situations outside of the classroom. This is done through partnerships with the Latino community. Students in ROML 060 will design an after school program geared toward minority students at A.L. Stanback Middle School. The goal of the program will be to develop good leadership, communication, and entrepreneurial skills in the students through various activities and discussion sessions.

ROML 060: Spanish and Entrepreneurship, Instructor: Darcy Lear
Student: Lucy Emerson
Students in ROML 060 are interested in taking a group of participants from the afterschool program Las Guapitas on a weekend experience to Corolla, (a city in the Outer Banks of North Carolina), in order to expand participants knowledge of the history of North Carolina. Las Guapitas is a program aimed specifically at meeting the needs of young Latina women in the Chapel Hill area. Las Guapitas focuses on promoting self-esteem and higher education. While in Corolla, students and participants alike will take part in an ecological adventure, learning more about themselves while at the same time also learning about this unique part of the state.

ROML 060: Spanish and Entrepreneurship, Instructor: Darcy Lear
Student: David Horton
The entire class of ROML 060 will work with David to develop a networking guide that lists the organizations in Orange County that cater to Latino Clients. This guide has two purposes; it will provide a directory that businesses and clients can use to network between themselves. Recently arrived Latino immigrants can also use this guide to access services they would otherwise not know how to find. The course is working with GoodWork, an organization that strengthens communities by helping businesses work toward sustainability and self-reliance.

ROML 060: Spanish and Entrepreneurship, Instructor: Darcy Lear
Student: William Page
Students in ROML060 will hold a food and culture program from students participating in the Los Caballeros program at McDougal Middle School. The program will consist of cooking and culture sharing. The students in the Los Caballeros program will help prepare family recipes of their favorite foods, once the food preparation is complete family and friends will be invited to participate in the rest of the evening. The process of cooking and eating the food should provide the students and families with an opportunity to talk amongst each other about different aspects of their own cultures.

ROML 060: Spanish and Entrepreneurship, Instructor: Darcy Lear
Student: Elise Seay
ROML060 has would like to purchase gas cards in support of the UNC NOW St. Joseph’s Bread Ministry. The gas cards are to be donated to the Ministry. St. Joseph’s runs a food bank, or Bread Ministry, out of the church with food that would otherwise be thrown away by local grocery stores. Each morning church members and volunteers drive to groceries throughout the community to pick up the discarded food, the food is then sorted and anything unusable is distributed to local pig farmers. The Bread Ministry is open daily and serves roughly 500 families a week. Also students would like to create a notebook of useful phrases that could aid in communication with the Latino community that visits the Bread Ministry.

SOCI 273: Social and Economic Justice, Instructor: Judith Blau
Student: Audrey Guass
Students in this course are setting up a photo exhibit featuring pictures taken by the children that live in the Abbey Court apartment complex in Carrboro, NC. The exhibits intent is to educate the local community about the perspective of our neighbors and the distinct way in which their culture lives on.

SOCI 273: Social and Economic Justice, Instructor: Judith Blau
Student: Rachel Craft
Students are working on offering ESl classes for adults in Abbey Court apartments in Carrboro, NC. The campus organization MANO (Mujeres Avanzando hacia Nuevas Oportunidades) has provided trainings for the volunteers, and is helping coordinate the program. MANO has resources (workbooks, audio CDs and dictionaries) that can help the students in their teaching. Other resources such as books and whiteboards will need to be purchases.

SPAN 320: Spanish for Business, Instructor: Michelle Gravatt
Student: Kate King
Spanish for Business focuses on basic business concepts and skills in Spanish and applying those skills to a real-world context in the local community. The students in SPAN320 will be making a guide to Durham County as a resource to the Spanish speaking community. This will be a comprehensive compilation of restaurants, recreation, legal services, and medical services throughout Durham County. Entries in the guide will include hours of operation, contact names, addresses and phone numbers, as well as resources offered by each location. The class will travel to each location/entry to make sure it is a suitable place of business.

SPAN 321: Spanish for Medical Professionals, Instructor: Elizabeth Bruno
Student: Diana Dubick
SPAN321 students plan to survey local Latinos to get a better idea of how the local radio stations can better serve the Latino community. WCOM is a community radio station with a large percentage of Spanish language programming designed to inform, entertain and give voice to the local Latino community. As an incentive for community members to participate in the course survey, participants will receive 2009 calendars listing WCOM programs and other community resources.

SPAN 321: Spanish for Medical Professionals, Instructor: Elizabeth Bruno
Student: Meredith Trudgeon
Students in SPAN321 are working with the Family Violence Prevention Center of Orange County to help them in volunteer recruitment and training. The students will arrange to have a table in the PIT, offering cookies and fliers about how to get involved in the Violence Prevention Center’s volunteer program. Students in SPAN321 will also create a English/Spanish flier to inform students at UNC of other services that are related to family violence on and around UNC. Students in this course will also help the Family Violence Prevention Center with volunteer training by video taping the trainings for them.

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