Community-based Learning Course List

Communication Sciences & Disorders 790: Practicum in Communication Disorders

INSTRUCTOR: TBA
CREDITS: 1-4

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

Kinesiology 300: Practicum in Kinesiology

INSTRUCTOR: Gatteny, Tim; Carda, Ronnie
CREDITS: 1-3

Supervised experience in a specialized area of physical education.

Legal Studies 694: Criminal Justice Field Observation

INSTRUCTOR: Lesch, Carolyn
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: Endicott, Sarah Elisa
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.

Nursing 590: Planetary Health and Social Justice

INSTRUCTOR: LeClair, Jessica
CREDITS: 3-4

Human health and wellbeing are dependent on the constancy and functioning of the Earth’s systems—including its oceans, forests, biogeochemical cycles, atmosphere, and levels of biodiversity. The emerging field of Planetary Health explores how transgressing planetary limits, such as damaging climate systems through excessive carbon emissions, is incompatible with continued human thriving. Addressing questions regarding how human society can thrive and develop in this era, while remaining within planetary boundaries, are the paramount issues of our time. In this interdisciplinary course, students will explore the intersections between risks to planetary health and the resulting impacts on communities using the lenses of healthcare, population health, social and environmental justice, and will create advocacy plans with community partners to support them in responding and adapting to climate change.

Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education 300: Individuals with Disabilities

INSTRUCTOR: Gonzalez, Taucia
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 330: Behavior Analysis: Applications to Persons with Disabilities

INSTRUCTOR: TBA
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.

Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education 630: Internship in Rehabilitation or Special Education

INSTRUCTOR: Kimberson, Wilker; Wiegmann, Susan
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
CREDITS: Varies

Practical experience in counseling handicapped persons.

Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education 890: Clinical practicum

INSTRUCTOR: Berven, Norman
SECTION: All
CREDITS: Varies

Practical experience in counseling handicapped persons.

Social Work 801: Field Practice and Integrative Seminar IV

INSTRUCTOR: Schroepfer, Tracy
CREDITS: 2-6

Continuation of Social Work 800

Spanish 319: Medical Spanish

INSTRUCTOR: Pujol, Eve
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.).