UMKC Service-Learning/Community Engagement
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UMKC is connected and engaged with Kansas City communities through many
innovative faculty and student projects. On this page, UMKC Service Learning
keeps a running list of courses with a significant community engagement
component for three purposes: 1) To help students interested in learning in
a community context know where to look for courses. 2) To give visibility to the faculty members who embrace this
teaching methodology. 3) To help Kansas City community organizations
conceptualize possible ways of connecting with UMKC. Please note this list
is neither exhaustive nor exclusive. Some of the courses have utilized UMKC
Service-Learning or Serve 2 Learn and others have not. To bring
together the list, faculty members share basic information about their
courses with UMKC Service Learning.
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Faculty wanting more information on how to get started with
service-learning - contact Alexis at
petria@umkc.edu or 816.235.5872.
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Spring Semester 2013
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ANTHROPOLOGY 322 Race and Ethnic Relations incorporates
an applied learning experience in the community
(Torres).
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ECONOMIC 366 The Kansas City Economy
- ENGLISH Language, Literacy, Power students will be
facilitating groups of children to write their own group
fiction (Mahala).
- HISTORY 300R -- A special topics course focusing on
public history. This semester, the students and faculty
are doing a group research project on World War I that
will be exhibited at the Miller Nichols Library and at
the National World War I Museum. Next year, this course
may be an Anchor II course - History for the Public
(Bergerson).
- HEALTH SCIENCES Issues in Aging - students select
one of 15 community partner sites to gain experience
(Lindholm).
- LAW 8769 Law & Poverty (January term)- A survey of
significant issues in poverty law and policy, including
an examination of the poverty law topics most commonly
addressed in poverty law practices (acc4ess to income;
employment; food; housing; child care and support; and
health and legal services), poverty programs access to
the civil justice system and the changing nature of
poverty law practice. Students may undertake a service
learning project of their own design in lieu of a final
examination (Glesner-Fines).
- LAW 8751 S Family Violence (Spring 2013) - An
in-depth examination of family violence from a legal
perspective. Course topics will include
interdisciplinary study of the dynamics and psychology
of family violence, of historical and social policies,
specialized problems of family violence (including
intimated partner violence, child abuse and neglect, gay
and lesbian battering, and elder abuse) and legal
responses. Students will receive practical training in
safety planning, intake, review of community resources,
case logistics, and advocacy for temporary orders.
Students may undertake a service learning component,
assisting in representation of victims of domestic
violence in obtaining protective orders, divorces, etc.,
for one additional credit (Glesner-Fines).
- NURSING 230 Aging - Students select one of 8
community sites to gain experience in this area of the
field (Lindholm).
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PSYCH 428 Applied Advanced Child Development
(Gensheimer)
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SOCIOLOGY 336 Society, Community, and Service -- The
course includes a 100 hour internship component
(Torres).
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Faculty - if your course is not listed, and you would like it to be,
please email Alexis Petri
(petria@umkc.edu ).
Summer and Fall 2013
- GEOG 203 - Introduction to GIS
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GEOG 401/5507 - Advanced Geographic Information Science
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Contact us by e-mail at
servicelearning@umkc.edu or by
calling 816.235.5872.
