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.
In community-based learning courses at Davidson, course objectives and the community-based experience or project are clearly connected; students reflect critically on the experiences and are assessed based on academic competencies; there is collaboration with community partners that has reciprocal value for students and community; and the community component meets a community-defined need.
Upcoming Courses
Fall 2024 Community-Based Learning Courses
- ANT 340: Medical Anthropology (Cho)
- AFR 233: Africana Political Economy (Harper-Shipman)
- AFR 260: Food, Gender and Race (Castaneda)
- AFR 495: Africana Capstone (Harper-Shipman)
- BIO 368: Health Care Issues in Zambia (Case)
- BIO 370: Musculoskeletal Disease and Injury (Mamoon)
- BIO 370: Health, Illness & Primary Care (Mamoon)
- BIO 372: Molecular Pathology, Socioeconomic Determinants, and Disparities in Surgical Outcomes (Mamoon)
- EDU 361: Bilingualism & Literacy (Fernandez)
- SPA 311: Teaching Spanish in Elementary Schools (Kietrys)
- XPL 199: High Impact Experiential Learning (Riemer)
Spring 2025 Community-Based Learning Courses
- ANT 267: Food & Sustainability (Lozada)
- ART 205 A: Advanced Printmaking (Starr)
- BIO 320: Plant Adaptations (Wadgymar)
- GSS 340: Transnational Sexualities (Horowitz)
- LAS 101: Introduction to Latin American Studies (Castaneda)
- SPA 260 B: Conversation & Composition: Human Rights (Jimenez)
- THE 383: Contemporary Performance (Green)
- WRI 101: Indigenous Foodways (Stremlau)
- WRI 101: Are Prisons Obsolete (Vincent)
- XPL 199: High Impact Experiential Learning (Riemer)
Recent Community-Based Learning Courses
Spring 2024
- EDU 280 A: Introduction to Ed Policy (Murray)
- EDU 280 B: Introduction to Ed Policy (Murray)
- ENV 202: Environmental Social Science (Worl)
- GER 241: Race, Gender, Migration (Frazier-Rath)
- LAS/AFR 120: Introduction to Afro-Latin American Studies (Castaneda)
- PBH 373: Food & Nutrition Policy Seminar (Bullock)
- POL 381: Philanthropy in the Nonprofit Sector (Menkhaus)
- XPL 199: High Impact Experiential Learning (Riemer)
Fall 2023
- ART 107: Works on Paper (Starr)
- BIO 368: Health Care Issues in Zambia (Case)
- BIO 370 B: Directed Readings in Biology (Mamoon)
- BIO 372 E: Research in Biology II (Mamoon)
- EDU 361: Bilingualism & Literacy (Fernandez)
- ENV 202: Environmental Social Science (Worl)
- ENV 242: Political Ecology (Worl)
- GER 231: Black German Art & Resistance (Frazier-Rath)
- LAS 101: Introduction to Latin American Studies (Castaneda)
- POL 432: Racial Justice in Education (Murray)
- SPA 311: Teaching Spanish in Elementary Schools (Kietrys)
- XPL 199: High Impact Experiential Learning (Riemer)
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