Community-based Learning Courses List Fall 2021

Agriculture and Applied Economics 323: Cooperatives

INSTRUCTOR: Berner, Courtney
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Cooperatives: Analysis of basic principles, structure and organization, legal bases, finance, history and role in U.S. economy. Different types and uses as tools in the U.S. and developing countries.

Art 338: Service learning in art

INSTRUCTOR: Simpson, Gail
SECTION: Sec 001
CREDITS: 2

Students discuss community-based practices in the field, and will work with a community partner in an art-related capacity.

Art 393: Internships in art

INSTRUCTOR: Simpson, Gail
SECTION: Fld 001
CREDITS: 3

This online course allows students who have found outside art-related internships to earn academic credit in connection with their work experience.

Chican@/Latin@ Studies 530: Advanced topics in CLS

INSTRUCTOR: Sarmiento, Carolina; Hernandez, Paola
SECTION: Sec 001, 002
CREDITS: 3

Community-based research

Civil and Environmental Engineering 578: Senior design capstone

INSTRUCTOR: Harrington, Greg
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: N/A

The application of theoretically and academically acquired knowledge to a civil and environmental engineering problem in as near “real-world” as possible

Civil Society and Community Studies 335: Communicating with key audiences

INSTRUCTOR: Maguire, Michael
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Comprehensive communication strategies for individuals, families, and communities.

Civil Society and Community Studies 501: Infrastructure/Operations of nonprofit organizations

INSTRUCTOR: Collins, Mary Beth
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Understanding daily management of a nonprofit organization

Civil Society and Community Studies 501: Nonprofit board leadership

INSTRUCTOR: Collins, Mary Beth
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 2

Understanding daily management of a nonprofit organization

Civil Society and Community Studies 570: Community-based research and evaluation

INSTRUCTOR: Sarmiento, Carolina
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

This course will introduce students to important questions regarding the relationship between academic/university research(ers) and community-based organizations (CBOs). The class will begin by exploring the methods, practices, and values associated with Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR). CBPAR can be defined as a range of relationships that emphasize: (1) different degrees of collaboration; (2) sensitivity to context, process, and power; (3) a respect for the diversity of knowledge bases and skill sets; (4) the accountability of researchers to the communities with whom they work and engage with; and (5) a belief that knowledge production and dissemination can contribute to social change.

Civil Society and Community Studies 600: Community issues and action capstone

INSTRUCTOR: Sarmiento, Carolina
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 4

Designed to demonstrate your accumulated training in community and non-profit leadership in a semester long project done in collaboration with a community partner. The course asks how we can better conceptualize social justice and community issues from a human ecology perspective, while also learning from our own practice and experience working with nonprofit and community based organizations. This course provides students with both a critical learning experience that combines both classroom and community based learning. The course requires 28 hours of fieldwork in community settings, in addition to class sessions. It is expected that students will complete the ethnic studies requirement prior to enrolling in this course

Communication Sciences and Disorders 790: Practicum

INSTRUCTOR: TBA
SECTION: All
CREDITS: Varies

Supervised experience with persons manifesting communicative problems. Evaluation, rehabilitation, and conservation of hearing, language, and speech disorders in various clinical settings.

Community & Environmental Sociology 500: Capstone experience

INSTRUCTOR: Stoecker, Randy
SECTION: 001
CREDITS: 3

Capstone experience

Computer Science 402: Introducing computer sciences to K-12 students

INSTRUCTOR: Arpaci-Dusseau, Andea
SECTION: All
CREDITS: 2

Students work in teams to lead Computer Science clubs and workshops for K-12 students in the Madison area. They design and lead activities to help K-12 students learn computational thinking and computer programming.

Counseling Psychology 620: Supporting homeless in schools

INSTRUCTOR: Wright, Travis
SECTION: Lec 005
CREDITS: 2

The BASES project stands for Building Academic, Social, and Emotional Support for children experiencing homelessness. We pair you with a 4K-Grade 2 homeless student in Madison schools or Head Start program. As part of the service requirement, you would need to spend at least 40 hours with your partner child over the year (1-2 hours a week). You will meet with the child at their school during a day/time that works best for both of you. In the class meetings we focus on providing you with knowledge and skills to help you in the field. We also focus on the context of homelessness in Madison and Madison schools and how to provide academic, social, and emotional support. This course/project is part of a research grant and we are interested in your experiences as a mentor as well as the child’s experiences in school.

Curriculum and Instruction 506: Strategies for Inclusive Schooling

INSTRUCTOR: Udvari-Solner, Alice
SECTION: All
CREDITS: 3

Comparison of historical and current practices in special education; legal, philosophical, and programmatic changes leading to inclusive models of education; emphasis on concepts of collaboration, cooperative learning structures, and curricular and instructional adaptations to accommodate learners with disabilities in general education classrooms.

Dance 331: Dynamics of dance therapy

INSTRUCTOR: Kornblum, Rena
SECTION: 001
CREDITS: 3

Movement lab integrating theory and techniques of dance therapy. Field work in community service projects.

Design Studies 341: Design thinking – inspire, innovate

INSTRUCTOR: Sager, Lesley
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Students will learn design thinking techniques to enhance creative analysis and problem solving. Students will directly apply what they have learned to a variety of human centered design challenges. Students will innovate, prototype, and test designs that address real-word problems with real-world constraints and the limitations of technology. Projects range from ways to improve everyday situations to community issues

English 245: Seminar in the major: Writing rivers

INSTRUCTOR: Gottschalk Druschke, Caroline
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

This small seminar offers students close instruction in the principles and practices of informed, engaged, critical reading and writing.

Environmental Studies 600: Capstone

INSTRUCTOR: Keuser, Anke
SECTION: Sem 002
CREDITS: 3

We will be cooperating with staff at Madison’s Sherman Middle School to provide a nature study program to 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. A high percentage of Sherman ethnically diverse students live in poverty. The school is making herculean efforts to meet student needs by providing after-school programming. Our class helps the school meet those needs by pairing UW students as after-school mentors with a Sherman student.

Environmental Studies 600: Capstone

INSTRUCTOR: Balster, Nick
SECTION: Sem 002
CREDITS: 3

A capstone applying independent and team problem solving, critical thinking and oral and written communication skills to issues in soil and environmental sciences. Meets-with Soil Sci 499

Environmental Studies 600: Conservation Planning

INSTRUCTOR: Balster, Nick
SECTION: Sem 004
CREDITS: 3

Conservation: How organizations work to promote it. While still under development, this capstone class will be jointly taught by Prof. Paul Zedler and Dr. Cooper Rosin. We are both conservation biologists/ecologists in our teaching and research. We intend to use this class to further your understanding of conservation related issues and hope to partner with a conservation organization on a joint project. You will be expected to come together as a class to propose the exact project after we have spent some time discussing possibilities, and we will aim for one final, interdisciplinary product to be jointly written and edited by the class.

Environmental Studies 972: Conservation planning

INSTRUCTOR: Johnson, Arlyne
SECTION: Sem 001
CREDITS: 4

Preparation of students to plan, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of conservation projects and programs. Systematic and adaptive processes of conservation planning will be learned through lectures, readings, discussions, and work in small groups to prepare a conservation plan and/or review case study projects (e.g., a protected area, a landscape) with a conservation organization.

Geological Engineering 479: Geological Engineering Design

INSTRUCTOR: Harrington, Greg; Quagliana, Charles
SECTION: Lab 001
CREDITS: 3

A practical problem in an area of geological engineering (such as development of a geologic resource or design of a structure in soil and/or rock) is selected and then the principles and processes of design and analysis are applied to the solution of the problem.

Human Development & Family Studies 663: Developmental and family assessment

INSTRUCTOR: Poehlmann-Tynan, Julie
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Introduces students to the process of family-focused developmental assessment with infants and young children, including family interviewing, taking developmental histories, observing children, and developmental screening.

Integrated Liberal Studies 357: Developmental and family assessment

INSTRUCTOR: Brantly, Susan
SECTION: Sem 001
CREDITS: 2

This course is designed to help improve leadership and facilitation skills for the co-facilitators of the Bradley roundtable.

Integrated Science 240: Service with Youth in Stem

INSTRUCTOR: Courtier, Anna
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 2

Teaches students about community engagement experiences, focusing on building community partnerships, understanding organizational missions and community needs, assessment of informal science outreach experiences, and issues related to scientific literacy and access to science.

Integrated Science 341: Service with Youth in Stem Practicum

INSTRUCTOR: Courtier, Anna
SECTION: Lec 001, 002
CREDITS: 2

Applies communication skills and social awareness issues in ways that enable students to work with increasing levels of independence in building and maintaining community relationships compared to INTEGSCI 240. Includes a lab section applied to lecture experiences to prepare for work with children in elementary after-school science clubs and to focus on different styles of communication. The multi-disciplinary focus of the after-school lessons develops connections between students’ field of study and others within STEM. In the service learning component, students apply academic knowledge through science education and outreach experiences in a community-focused and culturally sensitive way. Students work with underrepresented students in the Madison metropolitan area in elementary after-school science clubs, and are expected to critically reflect on the ties between their academic and community partnerships, and differences between campus and community culture.

Journalism 445: Creative campaign messages

INSTRUCTOR: McLeod, Doug
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 4

Introduction to the creative aspects of message development for advertising, public relations, and other strategic communications.

Kinesiology 300: Practicum in kinesiology

INSTRUCTOR: Gattenby, Tim; Carda, Ronnie
SECTION: 001, 002
CREDITS: 3

Supervised experience in physical education

Kinesiology 527: Principles of strength and conditioning

INSTRUCTOR: Carda, Ronnie
SECTION: 001
CREDITS: 3

Present/discuss the scientific basis and current practices of strength and conditioning for athletic performance. Training program design and training methods, for performance enhancement, related to the areas of strength, power, speed, and endurance.

Landscape Architecture 363: Earth partnership: Connect to Land for Equity & Resilience

INSTRUCTOR: Moreno, Maria
SECTION: 003
CREDITS: 3

This 3-credit course addresses the essential question of how restoration and restoration education utilizes the power of place to work towards social justice and sustainability. It focuses on helping students strengthen their skills to work with community partners and apply their disciplinary knowledge as it applies to the field of ecological restoration. Students from multiple disciplines will learn Earth Partnership¿s Indigenous Arts and Sciences 10 Steps for Restoration, which include educational, historical, cultural, social justice and ecological components. They will learn an assets-based, culturally-relevant, collaborative approach to community restoration where they can hone their skills playing a facilitative, supporting role in assisting a community group (such as school, community center, neighborhood group or environmental organization) meet their needs. Students will interact with guest speakers to learn first hand about perspectives on environment, cultural priorities, protocols for interaction, opportunities for relationship building. They will be asked to reflect upon and defend their own epistemological relationship to land as a global citizen.

Landscape Architecture 610: Landscape Architecture Seminar

INSTRUCTOR: Schuchardt, Eric
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Capstone project proposal development from a regional to site scale. Students make several site visits with clients to gain a better understanding of local conditions and the client’s expectations. The final proposal document is grounded in research and includes a literature review, precedent studies, programmatic development, and inventory and analysis mappings that address issues from ecology to public/private partnerships.

Landscape Architecture 668: Restoration ecology

INSTRUCTOR: Howell, Evelyn
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Restoration is an approach to the conservation of native species, plant communities, and ecosystems. It is an interdisciplinary global enterprise practiced by private and public sector professionals and dedicated volunteers of all ages. Covers both the theory and practice of restoration ecology and examine the current opportunities, challenges, and controversies that underlie the field. The goal may be to preserve nature, but restoration is a fundamentally human enterprise-it is accomplished for and by people. Therefore we cover information from ecology, sociology, and the humanities.

Law 768: Restoration ecology

INSTRUCTOR: Jacklitz, Jill; Davis, Sarah; Gaines, Meg
SECTION: Sem 001
CREDITS: 1-7

Interdisciplinary health advocacy clinical supervised by diverse professional staff.  Provide broad advocacy to patients with life-threatening and serious chronic illnesses.  Advocacy topics include: medical decision-making, insurance, medical debt, disability issues.  Weekly discussions of patient cases and related guest lectures.

Legal Studies 400: Impacts of social and legal issues on health

INSTRUCTOR: Hanson, Lane
SECTION: 023
CREDITS: 3

The impacts of social determinants on health

Legal Studies 694: Criminal justice field observation

INSTRUCTOR: Mayers, Joshua
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Field placements and seminar sessions to develop sociological understanding of criminal justice processes. Placement in criminal justice agencies and lectures and discussions applying concepts and theories to field experience.

Pharmacy Practice 526: Pharmacy practice experience IV

INSTRUCTOR: Barnett, Susanne
SECTION: All
CREDITS: 1-3

This required PharmD experiential course complements didactic coursework in communication, practice-based skills, and the pharmacist’s role in the health care system. Students will participate in various community-based experiences, including group collaboration with a senior partner, observing pharmacists’ roles in practice settings, and providing screenings and education outreach.

Pharmacy Practice 625: Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience V

INSTRUCTOR: Maes, Marina
SECTION: All
CREDITS: 0

Experiences provided by this course permit students to integrate learning from previous didactic courses (drug literature review, pharmacotherapy, and patient/provider communications) into caring for patients. Students actively participate in patient care activities while under the supervision of a clinical instructor. Students must successfully complete all required Doctor of Pharmacy second year courses prior to enrollment. Enroll Info: None

Physical Therapy 541: Culture and diversity in health care

INSTRUCTOR: Wenker, Susan
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 1

Students will explore their own backgrounds and will learn constructs of cultural competency; cultural beliefs and practices; impact of diversity issues such as SES, sexual preference, disability, educational level, ethnicity and race; and the culture of medicine.

Psychology 601: Issues in prisoner reentry

INSTRUCTOR: Coffey, Patti
SECTION: Lec 005
CREDITS: 3

The course will provide the following learning opportunities for students: 1) Community based research and interview skill development; 2) Learning how to effectively translate research for a community audience; 3) Gaining a ?real world? perspective by interviewing and compiling statistics on reentry issues from a multisystemic perspective, including current and former inmates and probation/parole/judicial/county system perspectives; and 4) reviewing the research on reentry and gaining an understanding of the complex and multisystemic issues contributing to challenges for successful reentry. Students will gain valuable professional experience and a direct understanding of how psychology can contribute in a meaningful way by addressing community and social justice issues. This class will involve weekly meetings, but also require community based engagement.

Public Affairs 881: Benefit-cost analysis

INSTRUCTOR: Weimer, Dave, Edwards, Morgan
SECTION: Sec 001, 002
CREDITS: 3

Presents the welfare economics underpinnings for evaluating the social benefits and costs of government activities. Issues such as uncertainty, the social discount rate, and welfare weights will be discussed; case studies from the environmental, social policy, and agricultural areas will be studied.

Public Health 780: Evidence-based decision making

INSTRUCTOR: Duerst, Barb
SECTION: 001
CREDITS: 3

An interprofessional course addressing evidence-based approaches to public health needs and issues and community health improvement. Features problem-based learning with a focus on emerging issues and opportunities to work with community-based public health practitioners.

Real Estate 661: Residential property development

INSTRUCTOR: Landgraf, Tom
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Residential property development with Tom Landgraf, A capstone course. In-depth exposure to the world of the residential builder/developer/subdivider and the necessary tools of analysis–market analysis, zoning/environmental and other entitlements, site planning and design, infrastructure/construction cost analysis, financing, feasibility analysis, deal structuring, renovation/rehabilitation, special needs housing.

Rehab Psych & Special Education 300: Individuals with disabilities

INSTRUCTOR: Bal, Aydin
SECTION: All
CREDITS: 3

An overview of the characteristics and problems of exceptional children and youth. Definition and classification systems, etiology of handicapping conditions, educational services, and adult adjustment. Current controversies and future trends.

Rehab Psych & Special Education 330: Behavior Analysis: Applications to Persons with Disabilities

INSTRUCTOR: An, Zhe
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Children with exceptional learning and behavior characteristics (contrasting views and practices); a humanistic behavioral approach; development and evaluation of behavior change programs, classification and foundations of exceptional learning and behavior characteristics, and facilitating behavior change in different settings.

Rehab Psych & Special Education 630: Internship in Rehabilitation or Special Education

INSTRUCTOR: Wilkerson, Kimber
SECTION: All
CREDITS: 2-6

Practicum experience in state or community agencies or in public school programs serving individuals with physical, cognitive, emotional, learning, social or behavioral problems.

Rehab Psych & Special Education 880: Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology-Supervised Practicum I

INSTRUCTOR: TBA
SECTION: Fld 001
CREDITS: 2-3

Practical experience in counseling handicapped persons.

Rehab Psych & Special Education 890: Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology-Supervised Practicum II

INSTRUCTOR: TBA
SECTION: All
CREDITS: 2-3

Practical experience in counseling handicapped persons.

Rehab Psych & Special Education 910: Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology-Internship

INSTRUCTOR: TBA
SECTION: Fld 001
CREDITS: 6-12

Full-time supervised experience in a rehabilitation setting. Activities include: the work of the counselor on the job; the work of the counselor educator in supervision; research activity; counselor coordinator on the job.

Social Work 400: Field practice and integrative seminar I

INSTRUCTOR: Varies
SECTION: All
CREDITS: 2-6

An approved professional foundation field placement in direct social work practice in a community agency setting. A minimum of 16 hours per week, an integrative field unit seminar. The first course of the two-seminar field sequence.

Social Work 420: Poverty and social welfare

INSTRUCTOR: Varies
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Nature and dimensions of poverty in the U.S. Individual and social consequences of poverty. Historic and contemporary approaches. Poverty and social welfare policy and programs.

Social Work 422: Social issues in aging

INSTRUCTOR: Schroepfer, Tracy
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

This course is designed to give students an understanding of the origins, nature and scope and dynamics of the social problems of older adults and their families in the U.S. and to acquaint students with programs and services available to older adults.

Social Work 800: Field practice and integrative seminar III

INSTRUCTOR: Varies
SECTION: All
CREDITS: 2-6

An approved advanced generalist field seminar and placement linked to areas of focus. Seminar and placement require a minimum of 20 hours per week.

Social Work 835: Advanced social work practice in mental health

INSTRUCTOR: Studer, Lynette
SECTION: All
CREDITS: 2

Focuses on the core practice theories, conceptual frameworks, and intervention skills necessary for social work practice in mental health.

Social Work 836: Mental health policies and services

INSTRUCTOR: Schuldies, Jacob
SECTION: All
CREDITS: 2

Prepares students for leadership roles in mental health programs, agencies and organizations. Examines mental health policies and services that influence care and treatment of persons with mental illness and shape mental health care systems, programs and services.

Soil Science 499: Soil management

INSTRUCTOR: Balster Nick
SECTION: Sem 001
CREDITS: 3

A capstone applying independent and team problem solving, critical thinking and oral and written communication skills to issues in soil and environmental sciences.

Spanish 319: Medical Spanish

INSTRUCTOR: Pujol, Eve
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Intensive oral and written practice in major areas of Spanish professional usage. Each offering will focus on an important field in which students tend to apply their language skills (journalism, commerce, medicine, law, social services, etc.).

Urban and Regional Planning 912: Planning workshop

INSTRUCTOR:Ledesma, Edna
SECTION: Lec 001
CREDITS: 3

Selected problems in planning to emphasize the interdisciplinary character of planning practice and to give opportunity to apply socioeconomic analysis, physical planning, and implementation techniques.