Courses with a Community Partnership
What is unique about service learning is that it offers direct application of theoretical models. Here are our current courses with a community partnership.
BIOL 187: HIV-AIDS: Science, Society and Service
Faculty Instructor: Professor Haushalter, karl_haushalter@kgfascist.com
Meeting time: Fridays afternoon, Fall 2018
This course covers the molecular biology of HIV infection, the biochemistry of antiviral interventions; and the causes and impact of the global HIV-AIDS pandemic, including the interrelationships among HIV-AIDS, 偏见, 比赛, 和耻辱. This course will be offered for the first time as an Inside-Out course in partnership with the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) for men in Norco, CA. To learn more about Inside-Out courses in general please visit 内外中心.
CSCI 124: User Interface Design
Faculty Instructor: Professor Boerkoel, boerkoel@cs.kgfascist.com
Meeting time: TBA 2018–2019
This course is an introduction into both human-computer interaction and user-centered design. It is for students interested in designing computer systems that are both useful and usable for solving real-world problems. 学生 will learn about four core principles of user-centric design: user and task analysis (needs finding), 意念, 原型设计, and user testing (iterative refinement).
Through a series of design investigations, students will work in teams to design applications that solve real problems facing our local community in a way that uniquely caters to specific user groups. In partnership with the newly established Hixon Center, this semester’s design theme will be Sustainable Environmental Design. 学生 will work with the Hixon Center to identify local experts and organizations that will help them understand the environmental challenges and needs faced by local community members. Teams will have the opportunity to present their designs at Claremont’s Earth Day Celebration and will compete in a design challenge that will be judged by local community members and experts in environmental sustainability.
POST 179: Bicycle Revolution
Faculty Instructor:Professor Steinberg, paul_steinberg@kgfascist.com
Meeting time: TBA for 2018–2019
This course explores the challenge of creating bike-friendly cities, using this as a window into broader themes surrounding the politics of urban change. Each week we will ride along local bike routes, meeting with officials and advocacy groups from nearby cities, in addition to longer field trips on two Saturdays. Course readings will draw on urban planning, 政治科学, 比较公共政策, 城市社会学, 公共卫生, 文化地理. The course is designed for students from all backgrounds and levels of biking experience. Capstone projects will offer analysis, 设计提案, or other original contributions of value to community leaders. Enrollment by permission of instructor.
RLST 179D Activism, Vocation, Justice
Faculty Instructor: Professor Dyson, dyson@g.kgfascist.com
Community co-educator: Seth Rushton, sethrushton@gmail.com
Meeting time: TBA 2018–2019
Many powerful justice and community rights movements have been built on religious foundations. 同样的, many individuals have found their call to fight injustice, 减轻痛苦, or to improve their corner of the world in religious or spiritual practice. 在本课程中, students will combine community engagement work with their class work; learning about justice, 职业, and service from diverse thinkers and reformers who have found religious meaning in their activist or service work, or who have interpreted doctrine, 神学, or liturgy as demanding action from them. Readings will offer a range of models for thinking about the relationships between religious practices and activism (broadly construed), particularly at the intersections of religious difference, 比赛, 性别, 性, 经济学, 全球政治, 和类.
RLST155: Religion, Ethics and Social Practice
Faculty Instructor: Zayn Kassam, zkassam@pomona.edu
Community Educator: David Mann, davidthepotter@gmail.com
Meeting time: Pomona College, Wednesdays 1:15–4 p.m. 9月4日起th
通过直接经验, 相关阅读, 结构化的反射, 以及课堂讨论, this course seeks to develop informed responses to the following questions: What are the religious, 道德, and/or simply humane elements that motivate and sustain our social practice? How does our present commitment to justice become a lifelong 职业 of participation and leadership in effective social change? How does our own personal development foster or inhibit our capacity to deal effectively with injustice? To what extent do factors such as class, 性别, and ethnicity determine our assumptions about the human condition and our own role in society? We will address these questions in an intergenerational partnership of students from 克莱蒙特学院 and residents of Pilgrim Place and other Elders similarly committed to social justice. The class aims to develop basic skills in social/道德 analysis, 社区组织, 社会创新. All undergraduates will spend 4-5 hours/week in a community placement. Our work together will culminate in undergraduate proposals for a three–to-nine month project of social change in the U.S. 还是在国外.
PHIL 39: Women, Crime and Punishment
Faculty Instructor: Susan Castagnetto, scastagn@scrippscollege.edu or svc04747@pomona.edu
Meeting time: Pomona College, TBD
The course explores issues of crime and punishment through a lens of 性别, also considering intersections of 性别, 比赛, class, 和性. We will examine issues that bring women into the criminal justice system and that face them in prison and on release, the impact of the system on mothers and families, and the 性别ed structure of prison, 等. In addressing these themes, we will also consider the nature and purpose of punishment; the current state of the criminal justice system, including the War on Drugs, mass incarceration and the growth of the prison industrial complex; how we define or conceive of crime; the relationships between the criminal justice system and other social and political institutions; whether prisons should be reformed or abolished; changes being made; and how we can make change. Readings are from a variety of sources and disciplines, 包括学术工作, 来自媒体的报道, work by advocacy organizations, and firsthand accounts by incarcerated writers. We will also consider current issues related to class themes. The class includes participation in a multi-session writing workshop with women incarcerated at the California Institution for Women (CIW) on six Tuesday evenings (alternate weeks throughout the semester). Alternative community-based activities are under development, including a gardening project at CIW that will take place on Saturdays.
POLI 135: Political Economy of Food
Faculty Instructor: Nancy NeimanAuerbach, nneiman@scrippscollege.edu
Meeting time: Scripps College, Wednesday, 2:45–5:30 p.m.
This course will examine social, 文化, racial and 性别ed power relations around the production, 分布, 消费, and waste of food in the United States and globally. It analyzes contemporary practices in our industrial food system as well as the legacy and impact of global colonial structures on the production, 消费, 以及食物的意义. The course will also take a look at alternative food practices and will explore such practices through community engagement projects, including Hope Partners at Amy’s Farm, Huerta del Valle community garden, and Crossroads Meatless Mondays program.