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Community Engagement & Social Change Concentration

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Courses & Requirements

The CESC concentration will include as many as 15 students annually. Sophomores, juniors, and Ada Comstock Scholars interested in participating in the concentration are encouraged to apply.

Requirements

The concentration is composed of six courses for a minimum of 22 credits, as follows:

Gateway Course

IDP 120 Community-Based Learning (CBL): Ethics and Practice

This interdisciplinary course explores the practice and ethics of CBL through relevant readings and lectures. Students interact with guest speakers (faculty, community partners and peers) who provide firsthand perspectives on how CBL connects to local, national and global issues. The course provides a point of entry and orientation to students new to CBL, as well as an opportunity for in-depth discussion among students at all levels of familiarity with CBL. IDP 120 serves as the gateway course for the CESC concentration. (Graded S/U only. 2 credits)

Capstone Course

CCX 320 Capstone Seminar for the CESC Concentration

The CCX 320 seminar provides a forum for a cohort of concentrators to develop projects that analyze, evaluate and synthesize their prior academic work and practical experiences for the CESC concentration. Students are provided with readings, discussions, mentoring and other support that they need to complete the capstone projects. (4 credits)

Electives

In consultation with her concentration adviser, the participating student will choose four courses that support your area of interest and deepen your knowledge in relevant core content, including social justice, systems analysis, diversity, community development and community-based learning/research. Course offerings on this content are available in multiple departments at Smith and in the Five Colleges. Examples of areas of interest for students include immigration and citizenship, public health, education, law and policy, community organizing, community narratives, environmental justice, social movements, and art and activism.

Electives must be derived from multiple disciplines, and at least three must be 4-credit courses at or above the 200 level. Two of the electives must be Community-Based Learning courses (CBL courses have a community-based service-learning and/ or community participatory research component).

Community-Based Learning (CBL) Courses

CBL courses integrate significant community partnerships to meet actual community goals and advance academic learning. Below is a partial list of CBL course offerings; please check course catalogues for the most up-to-date information

Smith College

ARS 281/LSS 280Landscape and Narrative
ARS 389/LSS 389Broad-scale Design and Planning Studio
EDC 210Literacy in Cross-Cultural Perspective
EDC 200Urban Education
EDC 232The American Middle School and High School
EDC 343Multicultural Education
EDC 342Growing up American
EDC 338Children Learning to Read
EDC 336 Seminar in American Education: Urban Educational Reform, Policy, and Practice
EGR 410Engineering Design Clinic
GEO 309/EGR 319 Groundwater Geology
GOV 217The Politics of Wealth and Poverty in the U.S.
IDP 320Seminar on Global Learning: Women's Health of Tibetan Refugees in India
IDP 120Community-Based Learning: Ethics and Practice
LSS 255Art and Ecology
LSS 220Activism by Design
LSS 200Socialized Landscapes: Private Squalor and Public Affluence
LSS 300Rethinking Landscape
MTH 245Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
PRS 312Weaker Vessels: Women and Violence Inside and Out
PSY 325Seminar in Mind-Body Medicine
SOC 214Sociology of Hispanic Caribbean Communities
SOC 308/9 Practicum in Community-Based Research
SWG 230Feminisms and the Fate of the Planet
SWG 238Women, Money & Transnational Social Movements
THE 312Topic: Theatre for Young Audiences

Amherst College

ANTH 230Ethnographic Methods
AMST 221Building Community
ARHA 310Collaborative Art: Practice and Theory of Working with a Community
ASLC 325Beyond Shangri-La: Narratives of Tibet, East and West
ENGL 120Reading/Writing/Teaching
ENGL 490Historical Perspectives on Criminal Justice and the U.S. Economy
GEOL 450Seminar in Biogeochemistry
HIST 457The Immigrant City
KENA 424Giving
MUSI 238Pioneer Valley Soundscapes
THDA 353Performance Studio
THDA 250Video Production: Bodies in Motion
THDA 250Scripts and Scores

Hampshire College

CSI/IA 242Critical Pedagogy in Action
CSI 231The American School
CS 240 Designing Curriculum for Learning in Formal and Nonformal Settings
CSI 266Making Space: The Role of Built Environments in Social Change
CS 240How People Learn
IA 288Appropriate Technology in the World
IA 149Arts Integration: Theater as a Dynamic Teaching Tool
NS 0239Agriculture, Food and Health

Mount Holyoke College

ARCH 280Topics in Architectural Studies: Issues in Sustainability—Adaptive Reuse
EDUC 205Racism and Inequality in Schools and Society
ENGL 202Introduction to Journalism
ENGL 301Studies in Journalism Health and Science Journalism
ENVST 390Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies
GNDST 390Field Placement
PHIl 280Philosophy for Children
PSYCH 339 Adult Development and Aging
POLIT 391 Topics: Citizenship and the Foreigner— Political Violence
SPAN 340 Visual Cultures: An Introduction to the Other (in the) Media—New Media and Otherness in the Americas
SPAN 350Advanced Studies in Concepts and Practices of Power Community Narratives
HIST 214History of Global Inequality

University of Massachusetts

AFROAM 236 History of the Civil Rights Movement
ANTHRO 397MM Memory, Narrative and Community
ANTHRO 397HGrassroots Community Development
ANTHRO 297HThe Good Society
ANTHRO 397LLeadership and Activism
ANTRHO 497HCommunity Development in Holyoke
COMM 497BHMedia Literacy and Community Media
ENVIRDES 296RThe Boltwood Project
ENVIRSCI 465Principles of Environment Assessment
ENVIRDES 577Urban Policies
EDUC 497 IST Tutoring in Schools
JOURNAL 394CCommunity Journalism Project
LATINAM 398APracticum: Holyoke Tutorial
PUBHLTH 160My Body, My Health
PSYCH 365 Psychology of Aging
SPRTMGT 397HCommunity Relations