Community-Based Learning Courses

There are a number of regularly offered courses at Davidson that include community-based learning components or focus on social action themes.

The terms "social action" and "community-based learning" often carry different meanings across disciplines. The courses listed on this page engage students in projects, research, or assignments that meet a community-defined need with public and non-profit organizations; encourage students to become active participants in the political and social world around them; and/or promote students' understanding of contemporary social issues.

Upcoming Courses

Fall 2021 Community-Based Learning Courses

• AFR 495:  Africana Capstone (Harper-Shipman) 
• ART 107:  Introduction to Works on Paper (Starr)
• COM 311:  Media, Empathy and Justice (Bailey)
• EDU 361 Bilingualism, Literacy, and Schooling (Fernandez)
• FRE 331  Francophone Caribbean Literature (Mohammed)
• GER 221 Black German Art and Resistance (Frazier-Rath)
• SOC 275 Charlotte:  Problems & Promises (Ewoodzie)
• SPA 311  Teaching Spanish in Elementary Schools (Kietrys)
• XPL 199  High Impact Experiential Learning (Riemer & Stamey)

Spring 2022 Community-Based Learning Courses

• AFR 282: African American Literature (Flanagan)
• BIO 263: Evolutionary Ecology (Wadgymar)
• COM 495: Communication Theory & Research (Martinez)
• EDU 280 Introduction to Education Policy (Murray)
• ENV 201: Environmental Science (Johnson)
• ENV 401: Indigeneity & the Environment (Merrill)
• FRE 334: Immigration & Identity in the Francophone World (Vredenburgh)
• GER 351: Race, Gender, Migration (Frazier-Rath)
• LAS 353: Practical Encounters in LAS Studies (Sturtevant)
• POL 381: Philanthropy in the Nonprofit Sector (Menkhaus)
• SOC 331: Community Engagement & Change (Riemer)
• XPL 199: High Impact Experiential Learning (Riemer & Stamey)

Recent Courses

Spring 2021 Community-Based Learning Courses

• BIO 371 Musculoskeletal Disease & Injury (Mamoon)
• EDU 280 Introduction to Education Policy (Murray)
• EDU 360 Second Language Acquisition (Fernandez)
• GSS 435 Brown, Black & Blue:  Queer of Color Critiques of Policing and Prisons (Horowitz)
• LAS 350 Latinx Experiences in North Carolina (Sturtevant)
• SOC 242 Globalization & Social Change (Bhandari)
• SOC 331 Community Engagement & Change (Riemer)
• XPL 199B High Impact Experiential Learning (Riemer)
• XPL 199C High Impact Experiential Learning (Zimmerman)

Fall 2020 Community-Based Learning Courses

• BIO 370/PBH 396 Directed Reading in Biology, Musculoskeletal Disease and Injury in the Clinic (Mamoon)
• BIO 370 Directed Reading in Biology Pedagogy: A Case Study-Based Curriculum for Remote Tutoring of High School Students
• LAS 300 Digital Media in Latin America & the Philippines (Luis)
• SOC 275 Mass Media & Society (Bhandari)
• SPA 311 Teaching Spanish in Elementary Schools (Kietrys)
• THE 362 Community-based Theatre for Social Change (Green)
• XPL 199B High Impact Experiential Learning (Riemer)
• XPL 199C High Impact Experiential Learning (Zimmerman)

Other Regularly-Offered Community-Based Learning Courses

• ANT 263 Social Change & Social Justice
• ANT 267 Food & Culture
• ANT 340 Medical Anthropology
• ANT 360 Development and Sustainability
• ART 215 Introduction to Print Media
• BIO 103 The AIDS Pandemic
• BIO 108 Human Biology
• BIO 321 Ecology
• BIO 361 The Biology of HIV/AIDS
• BIO 368 The Study and Treatment of Human Disease
• CHE 103 Community Air Quality
• CHE 490 Chemistry Independent Study/Studying Air Quality in Davidson College
• CIS 171 Introduction to Environmental Studies
• COM 495 Communication Theory/Research
• ECO 102 Introductory Economics
• ECO Public Economics
• ENG 101 Writing Photography
• ENG 100W Composition I/Environmental Writing
• ENG 100W Composition and Literature: Extraordinary Bodies (focuses on disability, history, disability activism, and disability art)
• ENG 201 Professional Writing
• ENG 201 Writing With the Community
• ENG 293 Film as Narrative Art
• GER 340 Environmentalism on Film
• MAT 110 Finite Mathematics
• MAT 210 Mathematical Modeling
• MHU 211 Health, Illness and Primary Care
• MHU 220 Health Psychology
• MHU 244/PSY 234 Child Psychopathology
• MHU 340 The Obesity Epidemic
• POL 214 Public Policy: Environment
• POL 324 Philanthropy in the Nonprofit Sector
• POL 328 Politics of Information
• POL 469 The Politics of Health Care
• PSY 355 Culture, Parenting and Literacy
• PSY 377 Life Stories
• SOC 331 Community Engagement and Change
• SPA 101 Spanish I
• SPA 102 Spanish II
• SPA 201 Intermediate Spanish
• SPA 311 Teaching Spanish in Elementary School
• THE 362 Community-based Theatre for Social Change
• THE 380/ENG 494 Queer Performance as/and Activism