Community Based Learning Courses
ART2635 Gallery Techniques (3)
This course serves as a community based learning course. Work related activities are arranged with off campus institutions. This class provides practical curatorial experience as well as theory in the planning, design and installation of art exhibitions. The class examines various types of exhibition spaces including the museum, the alternative exhibition space and the commercial art gallery. Curatorial activates include selecting work for exhibitions, creating a time line, work placement, lighting, signage, handling, and hanging of art work. Students will work directly with the gallery staff at the Wiegand Gallery and the selected institution.
Instructor: Robert Poplack
BUS2216 Business Analysis Using Spreadsheets (3)
The primary goal of this course is to provide a general foundation of knowledge in learning how to use and electronic spreadsheet to plan, create, manipulate, and print worksheets. The software used in this course is Microsoft Excel for Windows. Topics include entering and editing data, formatting a worksheet, use of formulas and common functions and charts and pivot tables. The students will work on a community based research project that will involve collecting data, using spreadsheets to analyze the data, writing a professional report and presenting it to the community.
Instructor: Sujata Verma/Jill Jay
BUS2990 Communication Internship (3/3)
The Communication Internship course is designed to prepare students for jobs in the workforce. This on-the-job practicum provides student with the opportunity to receive specialized training in the career field of their choice. Students put theories and skills to work on selected projects agreed upon by the student and her/his supervisor. Communication students will complete two three-unit internships of 120-150 hours each: one in a "for-profit" concern and one in a "nonprofit" concern.
Instructor: Judy Buller
ENG4994 Community-Based Pedagogy (3)
Graduate students enrolled in Community-Based Pedagogy will work as teaching assistants with a mentor teacher in a community-college composition class or related assignment. Students will also meet weekly to discuss their classroom experiences, teach practice lessons, read and discuss essays in the field of composition pedagogy, grade sample papers, and share their teaching journals. The combination of classroom experience under the tutelage of a mentor alongside the support of a group of peers and guidance of a faculty member will enable students to develop their teaching skills in an effective and positive manner.
Instructor: Jackie Berger
GPY4205 Advanced Human Development (3)
This graduate art therapy course analyzes major approaches to the study of human development throughout the lifespan. The ability to recognize and understand theoretical presuppositions of various approaches to human development from a systematic point of view is emphasized. A community based learning component is included in the course: the students and professor meet three times at a community agency to bring art therapy services to participants of several developmental stages (i.e. toddler, school age, adolescent, and adult).The current CBL component takes place at Shelter Network providing services to homeless families and adults.
Instructor: Laury Rappaport
PHY2000 Science in Action (4)
The purpose of this community based learning course is to design and test science experiments for kids, and then to partner with a local elementary, school to work with/ lead the elementary students through those experiments. We will be using the Science Content Standards found in the Science Framework for California Public Schools as we prepare experiments in the physical, life, and earth sciences.
Instructor: Isabelle Haithcox
PSY2141 Developmental Psychology in the Classroom and Community (4)
Studies human growth and development from prenatal stages through adolescence. Attention is given to various developmental theories, interdisciplinary research, interconnected roles of biological and environment, and practical applications. PSY2141 allows students to choose a particular area of interest and work at a community agency exploring that interest, e.g. holding premature infants at a neonatal hospital clinic or participating in a weight-management program for overweight adolescents. May be used to satisfy one unit of the Career Development Requirement.
Instructor: Gretchen Wehrle
PSY2309 Community Psychology (4)
Studies a wide variety of forces and structures in the community which affect the positive growth, development, and functioning of its members. Being a community based learning course, this class includes community work, theoretical discussion and reflection activities. May be used to satisfy one unit of Career Development Requirement
Instructor: Gretchen Wehrle
REL2425 Liberation Theologies [CDiv] (3)
This class focuses on theologies that strive to liberate oppressed and marginalized peoples, including Liberation Theology in Latin America, Dalit Theology in India, and Feminist and Black Theology. This is a community based learning class which requires students to do fifteen hours of work outside the classroom. Students will either spend a long week-end at Dorothy's Place, working in the kitchen, gardens and home, or in another situation with oppressed people.
Instructors: Marianne Delaporte/Ken Hamilton
SOC2117 Analyzing Social Settings (4)
Introduces the use of qualitative methods in the study of community issues. Uses such research techniques as participant observation, the interview, and focus groups. The class, acting as a research team, willselect some aspect of a social setting to study. Past subjects have included social services in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, gay youth in San Francisco’s Castro district, the Mexican-American community in the “Little Michoacan” neighborhood of Redwood City, and pathways for youth in the City of East Palo Alto. A community based learning course.
Instructor: Don Stannard-Friel
SOC2201 Social Change Through Social Service I (3)
Provides students with the knowledge, skills, and encouragement to assist communities in need while learning from their service experiences. Students learn about the histories and functions of various human service agencies in San Mateo/San Francisco Counties as well as the characteristics and needs of the clients they serve. Students are required to volunteer with a nonprofit organization of their choice for the duration of the semester. May be used to satisfy one unit of Career Development Requirement. A community based learning course.
Instructor: Cheryl Joseph
SOC2205 Social Change Through Social Service II (3)
Students can either continue the volunteer service they began in SOC2201 or start service anew. Supervised community service will provide valuable insights into social need response as well as career opportunities in the social services. Working with professionals, students will put theories and skills into practice. One hour of class time per week will focus on specific situation that students encounter in their field work. Communication skills, assertiveness, conflict resolution, and coping techniques are typical topics explored in this class. May be used to satisfy two units of Career Development Requirement. A community based learning course.
Instructor: Cheryl Joseph
SOC2501 The Inner City: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly [CDiv] (4)
An exploration of the complex nature of San Francisco’s inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin. Why is it that street crime exists here? Why do the poor live here? Why do so many children love living here? How is this the place of both crime and creativity? What is the history of the Tenderloin? What is its connection to such artistic luminaries as Dashiell Hammett, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Truman Capote, Alice B. Toklas, Isadora Duncan, Billie Holiday, and Miles Davis? What are the physical and cultural boundaries of the Tenderloin and how are they maintained? What is the relationship of the Tenderloin, and inner city tenderloins everywhere, to the rest of American society? A community-based learning course.
Instructor: Don Stannard-Friel
SOC2502 Exploring the Inner World of the Inner City [CDiv] (4)
What is the structure of the inner city? What is its culture? What is its economy? What legal and illegal businesses take resources in and out of San Francisco’s inner city Tenderloin district? How many children live here? How many families? How many homeless people? What ethnic groups live here? Who else lives here? What is the crime rate here? How many theaters? What kinds of theaters? How many art galleries? How many murals? What about graffiti? Who are the taggers? What do they have to say? What else is here? Students in this course will conduct qualitative and quantitative studies of patterns of behavior that characterize the inner city, assessing and explaining them and explaining them and the greater community’s response to the world of the inner city. A community-based learning course.
Instructor: Don Stannard-Friel
SOC2503 Lifestyles of the Poor and Infamous [CDiv] (4)
What groups live in the inner city? How are their lives organized? What is the lifestyle of the Tenderloin sex worker? What is the community of drug dealers, users, and abusers? What is the criminal subculture? Is there really a code of honor among thieves? Are there gangsters here? Gangbangers? Is there a subculture of the homeless? What is it like to be a youth living here? What about homeless teenagers? How do immigrant families get by? Transgender people? The mentally ill? Old people? What other subcultures characterize the inner city? A community based learning course.
Instructor: Don Stannard-Friel
SOC2504 The Promise of the Inner City [CDiv] (4)
A discovery of reasons to celebrate life in the Inner City. Includes an examination of the inner city as fertile ground for personal and social development. Areas of interest include the positive impact of government services, human service organizations, the art community, and social activism on the lives of the people of the inner city. Looks at the inner city as a model and catalyst for broad-based social change. Studies methods and opportunities for inner city youth, and others, to learn skills such as democratic leadership, community organizing, and the appreciation of others – abilities and attitudes that are significant in building meaningful lives anywhere. A community based learning course.
Instructor: Don Stannard-Friel
SOC2512 Sports, Service, and Society (1)
This course develops community leadership skills by integrating the sociological perspective with the practice and teachings of coach John Wooden and others who use athletics as a way of instilling teamwork, discipline, passion, and commitment. By directing the lessons and energy of the class toward community engagement, specifically by establishing and maintaining sports clinics in San Francisco's inner city, the student will develop an appreciation of the application of sociological theory and uses for knowledge and skills, developed in sports activities, in service of the common good. May be repeated one time for academic credit.
Instructor: Don Stannard-Friel
SOC2519 Streetwise Sociology [CDiv] (4)
Streetwise Sociology is designed to familiarize the student with the inner city culture by becoming a part of it. We do this by participating in project that benefit the community and, in so doing, learn from individuals who live and work there. The goal is to use sociological theory and practice to understand and contribute to the resolution of urban social problems. Instruction involves on-campus classes and workshops and off-campus community activities. Current projects include Halloween in the Tenderloin, College Night in the Tenderloin, and Miracle on 6th Street (a Christmas event for residents in a hotel for the formerly homeless). A community based learning course.
Instructor: Don Stannard-Friel
SOC2527 Urban Sociology [CDiv] (4)
Using a global and historical perspective, this community based learning course examines urban lifestyles, social organization, urban problems, and trends. Classroom work compares characteristics of cities around the world while community work focuses on Bay Area cities with independent field trips as part of the course experience.
Instructor: Cheryl Joseph
SOC2625 Animals, People, and the Environment [CDiv] (4)
By combining natural sciences with social sciences, this community based learning class explores the interactions between people, wildlife, and our ecological environment. Focus is given to the value of animal life and nature in such specific areas as conservation/wildlife management, food production, energy needs assessment, biomes and populations, urban sprawl, biomagnification and chemical pollution, environmental disease, endangerment, extinction, globalization and ecotourism within the context of social inequality and social justice. This course uses historical, biological, sociological, cultural, institutional, and environmental perspectives to examine the connections between animals, people and our environment. Site visits in the community are included in the course content.
Instructor: Cheryl Joseph
SOC2692 Animals, People, Environment-Field (1)
This one-unit course is a stand-alone, community-based learning class involving on-site visits to locations that facilitate learning about the connections between people, wildlife and our natural environment through direct involvement. Depending on the opportunities available during a given semester, on-site locations might include (but are not limited to) a botanical garden; humane farm; reservoir; wildlife hospital; nature center, museum, community garden project; marine laboratory; salt-marsh ecosystem; woodland preserve; urban restoration endeavor and animal sanctuary/reserve.
Instructor: Cheryl Joseph
THE2159 Introduction to Arts Management (3)
Introduces the administrative functions related to selection, planning, financing, promotion, and staffing of performing arts events. Study will include theory and practice of arts administration ranging from professional to amateur organizations; practical/community experience in the management functions of theatre arts productions. Students conduct a number of activities designed to inform mid-peninsula senior citizens about NDNU theatre and dance productions and to facilitate attendance at the performances by senior and underserved populations. These activities include audience development, marketing, public relations and special event planning and operation.
Instructor: Michael Elkins
ID0010 The Human Experience (4) Fall
Takes an interdisciplinary, multicultural approach to personal, community, and global issues using the theme of social justice. Team-taught and writing-intensive, with a strong co-curricular and community based learning element, the course includes a minimum of 8000 written words and four full-length texts. Also, it emphasizes critical thinking, research skills, and oral communication skills while laying a foundation for the student’s university portfolio.
Director of Program: Vince Fitzgerald