Service Learning Courses
Biology
Course: BIOL L108, Environment and Life
Instructors: Peggy Branstrator, Neil Sabine
Offered: Every semester
Service site(s): Cope Environmental Center, Hayes Arboretum, Richmond Parks Department and others
Service optional or required: Optional
Education
Course: EDUC M300, Teaching in a Pluralistic Society
Instructor: Kathleen Kreamelmeyer
Offered:
Service site(s): Various locations
Service optional or required:
Course: EDUC E328, Teaching Science in the Elementary School
Instructor: Mary Ann Morse
Offered: Fall and Spring
Service site(s): Cope Environmental Center
Service optional or required:
Course: EDUC E340, Reading Methods I
Instructors: Betsy Kirk, Betty Goerss
Offered: Every semester
Service site(s): Richmond Community Schools
Service optional or required: Required
Course: EDUC E341, Reading Methods II
Instructors: Betsy Kirk, Betty Goerss
Offered: Every semester
Service site(s): Richmond Community Schools
Service optional or required: Required
English
Course: ENG L208, The Literature of Aging
Instructor: Laverne Nishihara
Offered: Every two to three years
Service site(s): Area 9 In-Home and Community Services Agency
Service optional or required: Optional
Course: ENG L390, Children's Literature
Instructor: Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
Offered: Every fall
Service site(s): Boys and Girls Club of Wayne County
Service optional or required: Optional but strongly encouraged
Course: ENG L391, Young Adult Literature
Instructor: Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
Offered: Every spring
Service site(s): Richmond High School
Service optional or required: Optional
Mathematics
Course: MATH T101, Mathematics for Elementary Teachers I
Instructor: Kumara Jayasuriya
Offered: Fall and Spring
Service site(s): Various elementary schools
Service optional or required:
Nursing
Course: NURS H352, Cognition/Interaction/Coping
Instructor: Deborah May
Offered: Spring
Service site(s): Richmond High School, Richmond State Hospital, BABES, Dunn Mental Health Center
Service optional or required: Required
Course: NURS S472/S473, Community Health Nursing and Practicum
Instructor: Karen Clark
Offered: Every fall
Service site(s): Many
Service optional or required: Required
Course: NURS S482, Nursing Management Practicum
Instructor: Karen Clark
Offered: Every spring
Service site(s): Many
Service optional or required: Required
Philosophy
Course: PHIL P120, Ethics
Instructor: Cathy Ludlum Foos
Offered: Every semester
Service site(s): Depends on students' interests (sites have ranged from nursing homes and senior centers to day care centers and after-school youth programs, from churches and public schools to hospitals and AIDS Task Force Richmond) and students' communities (projects have been conducted as far north as Portland, as far west as Greenfield, as far south as Rushville, and as far east as Dayton).
Service optional or required: Optional (participation in a class project is required, but the nature of that participation is not restricted to community service)
Course: PHIL P282, Women in Philosophical Thought
Instructor: Cathy Ludlum Foos
Offered: Every other spring
Service site(s): Girls Incorporated of Wayne County
Service optional or required: Optional (participation in a class project is required, but the nature of that participation is not restricted to community service)
Course: PHIL P497, Internship in Philosophy
Instructors: Cathy Ludlum Foos, Ange Cooksey
Offered: By arrangement
Service site(s): By arrangement
Service optional or required: Required
Social Work
Course: SWK S141, Introduction to Social Work
Instructor: Varies
Offered: Winter, Spring, Summer
Service Site(s): Varies
Service optional or required:
Course: SWK S322, Human Behavior Social Environment II: Small Group Functioning
Instructor: Tracy Marschall
Offered: Fall
Service Site(s): Highland Heights Elementary, various other sites
Service optional or required:
Course: SWK S280, Introduction to Field Experience
Instructor: Sheila Armstead
Offered: Summer
Service Site(s): Varies
Service optional or required:
Speech & Communication
Course: SPCH S121, Public Speaking
Instructor: Mardi Bergen
Offered: Every semester
Service site(s): Assorted
Service optional or required: Required
Course: SPCH S223, Business and Professional Communication
Instructor: Mardi Bergen
Offered: Every fall
Service site(s): Assorted
Service optional or required: Required
Course: TEL T206, Video Design and Production
Instructor: Jerome Mahaffey
Offered: Every fall
Service site(s): WCTV, others
Service optional or required: Required
