
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
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