Course Listing
If you are looking for courses working on community projects or on community engagement issues, please see list below and register online through SIS.
Spring 2013 Course Listing
- ARCH 5160: "Models for Higher Density Housing"
Instructor: Elizabeth Roettger
Th 2:00PM - 4:45PM, Campbell Hall 305
This seminar will focus on density and contemporary housing issues, specifically related to affordable housing. As cities have spread out or decayed at the core, the variety of housing options has decreased leading to a growing divide between where and how people can afford to live. Assignments range from readings and leading discussion to case study presentations of recent global and local housing designs.
- COMM 4822: “Investing in a Sustainable Future”
Instructor: Mark White
MoWe 2:00PM - 3:15PM, Robertson Hall 260
This interdisciplinary course focuses on understanding, identifying and analyzing investment projects hastening our transition to a sustainable society. Working together in multidisciplinary teams, participants will analyze real-world opportunities applying rigorous standards for sustainability, strategic fit, financial performance, and practicality. Pre-requisites: Instructor permission or 4th-year Commerce standing.
- EDHS 2892: "Issues Facing Adolescence Girls II”
Instructor: Edith Lawrence, Melissa Levy
Mo 5:00PM - 6:00PM, Claude Moore Nursing
A continuation of EDHS 2891 Issues Facing Adolescent Girls I, this one-credit academic, service-learning class focuses on developing leadership skills through the Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP). Students attend a weekly one-hour class and two-hour mentoring group, and spend four hours a month one-on-one with their mentee. For those not able to mentor, they can meet the class requirements by being involved in the YWLP research team. Prerequisites: EDHS 2891 Issues Facing Adolescent Girls I.
- EDHS 3500: "Issues Fostering Leadership in Adolescence Girls II”
Instructor: Edith Lawrence, Melissa Levy
Mo 5:15PM - 6:00PM, New Cabell Hall 430
A continuation of EDHS 3501 Issues Fostering Leadership in Adolescence Girls I. In this course students explore the psychological, social, and cultural issues affecting adolescent girls and apply this understanding through service with the Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP), a mentoring program that pairs middle school girls with college women for a year.
- EDIS 5230: “Reading Diagnosis and Remediation for Reading”
Instructor: Paige Pullen
Tu 3:30PM - 6:00 PM, Dell 2 103
This course focuses on the diagnosis of reading difficulties and the array of continuous assessments that a teacher may employ to appropriately develop remediation strategies. Emphasis is placed on using assessment to guide instruction and remediation. Remediation strategies and effective reading programs are also introduced. This course is the second course in the reading sequence, and follows Reading Development for Special Populations. A tutoring lab, EDIS 5231, is taken concurrently. Prerequisite: EDIS 5221; corequisite: EDIS 5231
- MUEN 3690/4690: "African Music and Dance Ensemble and Performance in Africa"
Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk
TuTh 5:00PM - 7:15PM, Old Cabell Hall 107
Practical, hands-on course focusing on several music/dance forms from West Africa (Ghana, Togo) and Central Africa (BaAka pygmies). No previous experience with music or dance is necessary. Students seeking the co-requisite for MUSI 3090 should sign up for MUSI 3690. Prerequisite: Instructor permission by audition.
- NUCO 4600: “Community Health Nursing”
Instructor: Deborah Conway
MoWe 1:00PM - 3:30PM, Cluade Moore Nursing Educ 1110
Provides a foundation for nursing practice in community health by emphasizing the application of concepts and theories. Through a focus on family- and community-oriented nursing practice, students expand their roles from caring for an individual within a family to assessing and intervening to solve family and community health problems. Examines the influence of political, socioeconomic, and ecological issues on the health of populations. Includes clinical practice in selected community agencies. Prerequisite: All third-year courses.
- NURS 3003-1: “LEADERSHIP IN ACTION”
Instructor: Carol Lynn Maxwell-Thompson
Time, date, and room TBA
This course provides nursing students opportunities to develop leadership and management skills through participation in a variety of programs and activities. Students learn how to work in cooperative relationships with peers, faculty, students in other disciplines, community service organizations, and the public in a service learning environment. Membership in National Student Nurses Association and Student Nurses Association of Virginia is a requirement.
- PHS 5630: "Healthy Appalachia: A community-based Participatory Research Partnership"
Instructors: Elizabeth McGarvey
Tu 5:00PM - 7:30PM, Room TBA
This course will introduce undergrads to a graduate level course. It will examine the relationship between Appalachian culture, economic development, education and health in far Southwest Virginia and explore the process for the design and implementation for collaborative, community-based research. It will expose the student to the methodologies of community organizing, partnership development and community based research. Prerequisites: Instructor Permission.
- PLAC 5500: “Food Justice”
Instructor: Tanya Denckla Cobb, Kendra Hamilton
Tu 9:00AM - 11:45AM, Campbell Hall 135
- PLAC 5853: “Food Heritage”
Instructor: Tanya Denckla Cobb, Kendra Hamilton
Mo 2:00PM - 3:50PM, Campbell Hall Exbc
This class is part of a larger Virginia Food Heritage Project (a PLAC) (vafoodheritage.wordpress.com/), led by the IEN in partnership with numerous community partners. Students will learn about how food heritage could be an important tool in community planning for sustainability and resilience. Students will build the larger Charlottesville community's knowledge about its unique food heritage through primary and secondary research.
- PPOL 6000: “Political Institutions and Process”
Instructor: Christine Mahoney
TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM, Monroe 122
This class focuses on political strategy from the point of view of participants in American public policy, especially managers, analysts, advocates, and elected officials. The goal of the class is to promote a better understanding of the political and organizational factors involved in policy adoption, choosing among alternatives, gaining acceptance, assuring implementation, and coping with unanticipated consequences.
- RELJ 3085 The Passover Haggadah
Instructor: Vanessa Ochs
TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM, Gibson 141
This is a comprehensive study of the most beloved of Jewish texts, the Haggadah, the often illustrated text read and performed at home by families during the Passover seder, a meal of symbolic foods and storytelling fulfilling the biblical directive to tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt. Over 4000 versions of the Haggadah have been published: the most recent reflect the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, social justice.
- RUTR 3340: "Books Behind Bars: Life, Literature,& Community Leadership”
Instructor: Andrew Kaufman
TuTh 12:30PM - 4:45PM, TBA*
Th 12:30PM - 1:45 PM, Chemistry Bldg 262
Students will grapple in a profound and personal way with timeless human questions: Who am I? Why am I here? How should I live? They will do this, in part, by facilitating discussions about short masterpieces of Russian literature with residents at a juvenile correctional center. This course offers an integrated academic-community engagement curriculum, and provides a unique opportunity for service learning, leadership, and youth mentoring.
*On Tuesdays the class will be travelling to Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center during class time, and you should be back in Charlottesville by 4:45 pm.
Every Thursday we will meet in our regular classroom at UVa for debriefing and discussion. The only exception to this will be during the first three weeks of semester, in which all classes will meet at UVa. You will receive 4 credits for this class.
Register for these courses using the Student Information System (SIS).
For more Community Engagement Courses see the Learning in Action Web site: http://www.virginia.edu/publicservice/courses.html