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 2019

• AFR 331     African Feminisms (Bowles & Harper-Shipman)
• AFR 495     Africana Capstone (Harper-Shipman)
• ART 105     Introduction to Print Media  (Starr)
• BIO 368      Health Care Issues in Zambia  (Case)
• COM 311    Media, Empathy & Justice (Martinez)
• HHV 244    Child Psychopathology (Stutts)
• HHV 354    Medical Rehabilitation and Disability (Stutts)
• LAS 350     Latinx Experience in NC (Sturtevant)
• SOC 355    Queer Families (Kaufman)

Spring 2020

• COM 273    Reporting Politics & Elections (Martinez)
• COM 495    Communication Theory & Research (Martinez)
• DAN 252     History, Memory, Performance & Place  (Chapman) 
• EDU 151     Introduction to Educational Technology (Stevens)
• HHV 370     Nutrition, Bodies, & Health (Stutts)
• HHV 220     Health Psychology (Stutts)
• LAS 353      Practical Encounters in Latinx Studies (Sturtevant)
• MAT 210      Mathematical Modeling (Chartier)
• SOC 264     Latinxs in the South (Bazo Vienrich)
• SOC 331     Community Engagement & Change (Riemer)

Recent Courses

Fall 2018 Community-Based Learning Courses

• ANT 340 Medical Anthropology (Cho)
• ART 105 Introduction to Print Media (Starr)
• COM / SOC 315 Media Effects (Martinez)
• DIG 245 Critical Web Design (Mundy)
• EDU 300 The Politics of Education Policy (Marsicano)
• HHV 110 Introduction to Public Health (Baron)
• HHV 130 Sociobiology of Health and Illness (Mamoon)
• HHV 250 Health Methods (Baron)
• MAT 110 Finite Math (Chartier)
• MAT 210 Mathematical Modeling (Chartier)
• PSY 335 Seminar in Culture, Parenting, and Literacy (Leyva)
• SOC 210 Power and Politics (Delia Deckard)
• SOC 250 Housing (Ewoodzie)
• SPA 311 Teaching Spanish in Elementary Schools (Kietrys)

Spring 2019 Community-Based Learning Courses

• AFR 329 Women & Slavery in the Black Atlantic (Dennie)
• COM 495 Communication Theory & Research (Hogan)
• DIG 245 Critical Web Design (Mundy)
• HHV 220 Health Psychology (Stutts)
• HHV 354 Medical Rehabilitation and Disability (Stutts)
• POL 381 Philanthropy in the Nonprofit Sector (Menkhaus)
• SOC 331 Community Engagement and Change (Riemer)
• SOC 356 The Feminization of Poverty (Delia Deckard)
• SOC 391 Survey Research Methods (Kaufman)
• SOC 440 Sociology of Beatties Ford Road (Ewoodzie)

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