Community Based Learning Course List

Asian-American Studies 240: Hmong American experience in the U.S.

INSTRUCTOR: TBA
SECTION: N/A
CREDITS: 3

Communication Sciences & Disorders 790: Practicum in Communication Disorders

INSTRUCTOR: TBA
SECTION: N/A
CREDITS: 1-4

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

Computer Science 402: Introducing computer science to K-12

INSTRUCTOR: Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea
SECTION: N/A
CREDITS: 2

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.

Design Studies 341: Design thinking

INSTRUCTOR: Kwasny, Michelle
SECTION: N/A
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.

Folklore 490: Field methods and public presentation of folklore

INSTRUCTOR: Rue, Anna
SECTION: N/A
CREDITS: 3
CROSS-LISTED: Library and Information Studies

This course focuses on public humanities programming designed to extend and diversify the longstanding transnational networks that have connected Nordic Americans (i.e., people from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, as well as people belonging to the region’s indigenous Sámi culture) to communities and artists in the Nordic region. A folklore field school, part of the Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest initiative for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, will focus primarily on Finnish-American folk arts in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, with overlap into northern Wisconsin and attention to people of Sámi, Swedish-speaking Finnish, Swedish, and Scandinavian-“other” heritage.

Horticulture 375: Community-based horticulture

INSTRUCTOR: Luby, Claire; Futa, Ben
SECTION: Sec 003
CREDITS: 2

Working in teams, students will come to better understand 23 of the community gardens in Madison as they help document the challenges community gardeners face. Through interviews and projects, students will help Community GroundWorks better understand the needs of gardeners in diverse neighborhoods throughout Madison while helping them advocate for equitable access to resources. At the end of the course, students will have the opportunity to present their findings to the Madison Food Policy Council.

China, Beijing: CIEE sustainable development

Equador: UW Water for life: Sustainability and community health in Ecuador

England, London: UW in London

Italy, Rome: CIEE Rome open campus

Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City: CET Vietnam: Development studies

Legal Studies 694: Criminal Justice Field Observation

INSTRUCTOR: Lesch, Carolyn
SECTION: N/A
CREDITS: N/A
CROSS-LISTED: Sociology

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

INSTRUCTOR: N/A
SECTION: Sem 001
CREDITS: 2

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

Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education 300: Individuals with Disabilities

INSTRUCTOR: Gonzalez, Taucia
SECTION: N/A
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.

Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education 600: Internship in rehabilitation or special education

INSTRUCTOR: Kimberson, Wilker; Wiegmann, Susan
SECTION: N/A
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.

Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education 880: Clinical Practicum

INSTRUCTOR: Berven, Norman
SECTION: All Sections
CREDITS: Varies

Practical experience in counseling handicapped persons.

Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education 890: Clinical Practicum

INSTRUCTOR: Berven, Norman
SECTION: All Sections
CREDITS: Varies

Practical experience in counseling handicapped persons.

Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education 910: Internships

INSTRUCTOR: Varies
SECTION: N/A
CREDITS: Varies

Field work in therapeutic intervention, organization and administration, and clinical needs assessment within various special education service delivery settings. Opportunity to relate relevant theoretical backgrounds to clinical organization and field problems.

Social Work 800: Field Practice and Integrative Seminar III

INSTRUCTOR: Varies
SECTION: N/A
CREDITS: 2-6

An approved advanced social work practice field placement in an area of concentration. A minimum of 20 hours per week, including an integrative field unit seminar. The first of the two-semester advanced field sequence.

Social Work 801: Field Practice and Integrative Seminar IV

INSTRUCTOR: Schroepfer, Tracy
SECTION: N/A
CREDITS: 2-6

Continuation of Social Work 800

Spanish 319: Medical Spanish

INSTRUCTOR: Pujol, Eve
SECTION: N/A
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.).