Spring 2027

Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies 329: Community-based Research

An examination of specific themes in Chicanx/e and Latinx/e life, ways and culture, with readings drawn primarily from fields related to education, social service, and applied social science.

Civil And Environmental Engr 578: Senior Capstone Design

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

Civil Soc & Community Studies 400: Philanthropy and Civic Engagement

Explores philanthropy and civic engagement through giving time, money and effort to a public purpose. Learn the philanthropic process including creating a giving plan, as well as exploring strategic and creative ways to give that promote civil society and engagement. Develop plans for assessment and evaluation of philanthropic giving.

Civil Soc & Community Studies 811: Community-based Research

An interdisciplinary, introduction to community-based research. Designed to be a co-exploration of different community-based, community-engaged, and action-oriented research approaches and methods as utilized in a variety of disciplines. An opportunity to apply skills gained through participation in community-based research (CBR) projects developed collaboratively with a local community partner.

Computer Sciences 402: Introducing Computer Science to K-12 Students

Work in teams to lead Computer Science clubs and workshops for K-12 students at sites in the Madison area. Design and lead activities to help K-12 students learn computational thinking and computer programming.

Counseling Psychology 395: Supporting Young Children Experiencing Homelessness in School

Explore school-based supports for young homeless children. Focus on the potential of one-on-one mentoring relationships to aid young children’s adjustment to school and helping to foster resilience both in and outside of school. Learn about homelessness, mentoring, and emotionally responsive teaching.

Curriculum and Instruction 329: Teaching Artist Practicum

An opportunity to learn from professional teaching artists, continue to develop practical skills of teaching, and reflect on one’s teaching artist practice. Participate in two different teaching artist residencies in order to learn a variety of disciplinary practices. Observe and assist the teaching artists and lead a portion of one class. Engage in collective reflection of residencies and explore relationship to theory. Address classroom challenges and establish the habits of ongoing reflection and effective pedagogical critique. Articulate a personal teaching artist statement, reflect on teaching experiences, and identify ways to make the arts accessible to diverse groups of learners.

Curriculum and Instruction 975: Rural Education

For the exploration of new frontiers.

Dance 370: Introduction to Dance and Community

Introduction to community engagement through dance and movement. Focus on skills to work within service-oriented programs that engage communities in transformative, decolonizing, and humanizing dance practices. Investigate theory, practice, and empirical research to support ethnographic approaches with feminist and critical perspectives when working with dance in communities.

Design Studies 525: Civic Design: Systems thinking in Public Service Design

Hands-on introduction to civic design and the role of designers in the public sector. Examination of service design, systems-thinking, and participatory methods applied to government and community contexts. Team-based partnership with a government agency or nonprofit intermediary to brainstorm, prototype, iterate, and propose a service improvement.

Educational Policy Studies 120: Environmental and Sustainability Education in Wisconsin Policy and Practice

Combines intensive study of the history and legacies of environmental, sustainability and climate change research and education in Wisconsin with active participation in the day-to-day work of community educational and community organizations engaged in sustainability.

Educational Policy Studies 350: Edu & Advoc for Sustainability

Examines contemporary topics and debates in education studies; develops research, analytical, and other skills to work in education careers.

Environmental Studies 317: Community Environmental Scholars Program Seminar

Provides opportunities for students in the Community Environmental Scholars Program to analyze the connections among environmental issues and community engagement. Requires work with community-based environmental and/or sustainability-related organizations. Student cohorts design and lead classes and projects and have opportunities to host guest speakers and environmental leaders. Emphasizes the professional skills needed to work effectively individually, in teams, in internships, and in professional positions.

Environmental Studies 398: Independent study: Sustainability Community Engagement

Provides an opportunity to learn about community engagement and link sustainability concepts to working with a community organization. Declared in the Sustainability Certificate or Environmental Studies Major.

Environmental Studies 812: Sustainability Capstone

Conduct research and promote solutions to real-world sustainability problems. Collaborate on a team project which must effectively integrate transdisciplinary research to address sustainability initiatives in diverse systems. With a systemic lens, work with the instructor, peers, and community partners to drive the content of the course. Through interactive class activities, reflect, share, and discuss the processes being used to complete capstone projects.

Geological Engineering 479: Geological Engineering Design

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 and Family Studies 663: Developmental and Family Assessment

Introduction 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 Science 240: Service Youth in Stem

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 Practicum

Apply communication, cultural competency, and leadership skills to work with community partners in a service learning practicum. Work with underrepresented students in the Madison metropolitan area in elementary after-school science clubs, and critically reflect on the ties between their academic and community partnerships, and differences between campus and community culture. Work with different community partners than they did in previous Service with Youth in STEM courses. This practicum combines the service experience with an in-class component to prepare to provide opportunities to critically reflect upon the ties between academic preparation and community partnerships, and on their experiences in varied community settings.

Interdis Courses (C A L S) 473: Health Impacts of Unmet Social Needs

Engage in service learning through direct work with patients in the Community Resource Navigator Program. Develop a better understanding of how social determinants of health equity affect peoples’ lives. Partner with patients to identify social and legal services, assist patients in connecting to needed resources, follow up with patients to be sure that the connection was made and evaluate the quality of the resources provided. Reflect on experiences in the clinic and further explore how social location impacts health, legal and social service delivery. Working directly in local primary care clinics will provide the opportunity to communicate directly with the health care team to problem solve barriers patients are facing in accessing resources for their social needs.

Interdis Courses (Engineering) 941: Collaborative Capstone II

Explore chosen opportunity area through prototyping, user testing, and iteration. Creation of final, high resolution design, with communication and launch plan for startup, product or service. Practice behaviors of design thinking – ethics, critique, and storytelling.

Journ And Mass Communication 475: CBL – Odyssey Project

Exploration of a particular set of concepts and skills in more depth. Subject will vary.

Kinesiology 125: Adapted Fitness and Personal Training

Fitness class for developing individualized personal goals. Accommodates persons having temporary or permanent disability. Alternative to dropping from other program classes due to injury or other medical reason.

Kinesiology 316: Adapted Physical Activity

An understanding of foundations, assessment and pedagogy for individuals with disabilities in a variety of physical activity settings. Emphasis on individual differences, life-span, and self-actualization.

Kinesiology 325: Group Development and Behavior Management

Provide students with opportunities and experiences to learn and participate in the development of groups. Provide students with strategies and experiences in the management of behaviors and techniques to maintain a safe and productive teaching environment.

Kinesiology 365: Practicum: Adapted Physical Ed

A practicum experience for individuals who are emphasizing the area of Physical Education/Special Populations. Six hours per week working with individuals who have disabling conditions.

Kinesiology 516: Physical Activity for Diverse Abilities

Develop knowledge of diverse populations and the ability to promote physical activity and well-being for a lifetime. Apply knowledge of barriers and the use of inclusive techniques to develop meaningful experiences and programs.

Landscape Architecture 321: Designing Health Promoting Environments

Design studio with an emphasis on the application of design principles aimed at promoting people’s health and wellbeing in the built environment.

Landscape Architecture 562: Urban Design and Open Space Systems

With a focus on public open spaces as shared social places, emphasizes the social dimensions and connectedness of urban design and open space systems through perspectives from allied disciplines, such as landscape architecture, architecture, urban planning, real estate development, urban ecology, civil engineering, and the visual arts. Integrates human activity requirements and experiences with physical (or built) and natural site features. Builds upon technical design skills developed in prior studio work, paying close attention to form-giving, place-making, and sustainability at the site and neighborhood scale.

Latin Amer, Carib & Iberian St 440: Spanish: Immigration Law Clinic

An examination of specific topics related to the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian region. Topics vary each semester, but may include specific themes in history, literature, media, political science, sociology, culture, politics, social work, and agriculture.

Law 768: Health Justice Clinic

Interdisciplinary health advocacy clinic providing broad individual and system advocacy for patients facing life changing health events. Advocacy topics include: medical decision-making, insurance, medical debt, disability and related policies and laws.

Legal Studies 694: Criminal Justice Field Observation

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.

Nursing 511: Community Supports for People with Dementia

Provides an introduction to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, with a focus on community supports for people living with dementia. Work across disciplines to learn how different areas of society can become dementia friendly and how to integrate relevant approaches in their future careers. Participate in a service-learning opportunity where you will work with local dementia-friendly community groups to strengthen supports for people with dementia and their caregivers.

Nursing 768: Health Justice Clinic

Interdisciplinary health advocacy clinic providing broad individual and system advocacy for patients facing life changing health events. Advocacy topics include: medical decision-making, insurance, medical debt, disability and related policies and laws.

Nutritional Sciences 421: Slow Food

Specialized educational experiences that address a broad range of global health topics through interdisciplinary approaches to health and include participation in applied public health activities or service learning projects with communities and partner organizations.

Pharmacy Practice 626: Pharmacy Practice Experiences IV

Integrates didactic learning with active participation in a wide-variety of patient-care activities under the supervision of a pharmacist preceptor including medication reconciliation, patient consultation, complex medication reviews, documentation, therapeutic drug monitoring and calculations. Continued exposure to the Pharmacist Patient Care Process (PPCP), which is a framework for providing patient care in a pharmacy practice setting.

Psychology 626: Issues in Prisoner Reentry

Provides a multi-systemic understanding of evidence-based prisoner reentry issues and solutions while including community-based learning experiences. Considers the needs of formerly incarcerated individuals reentering our communities, including meeting the ultimate goal of decreasing recidivism and increasing positive psychological adjustment for former inmates, their families, and all the staff and community members working in various stages of the justice system.

Public Affairs & Public Policy 860: Workshop in International Public Affairs

Workshop in program evaluation and policy analysis taught through student teams working on real-world international issues for agencies in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Teaches analytical skills, report preparation and writing, and presentation of results.

Public Affairs & Public Policy 869: Workshop in Public Affairs

Workshop in program and policy analysis taught through student teams working on real problems for public agencies and organizations; teaches analytical skills, report preparation and writing; and presentations of results.

Rehab Psych & Special Educ 300: Individuals with Disabilities

Designed to expand the knowledge base of future educators, clinicians, and society members to better understand and serve the diverse needs and interests of individuals with disabilities. Introduces the concept of disability as well as the field of special education. The history, etiology, and characteristics of specific categories of disability are examined, as are educational and other federally mandated programs designed to address the needs of both children and adults with disabilities. Topics germane to the study of disability and the field of special education are explored.

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

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 Educ 910: Clinical RPSE Internship

Full-time supervised experience in clinical rehabilitation counseling.

Social Work 401: Field Practice II

An approved generalist field seminar and social work agency placement. Seminar and placement require a minimum of 16 hours per week. The second course of the two-semester generalist field sequence.

Social Work 578: Housing Precarity and Social Policy

An introduction to the issues surrounding housing precarity and being unhoused in the U.S. Explore the role of housing markets, social policies, demography, history, social provision, and attitudes impacting access to this fundamental good. Discuss social policies and service needs relevant to unhoused persons. Classroom and community-based learning experiences.

Social Work 801: Field Practice IV

An approved advanced practice social work field seminar and placement.

Social Work 836: Mental Health Policies and Services

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