Spring Semester 2013

• ANTHROPOLOGY 322 Race and Ethnic Relations incorporates an applied learning experience in the community (Torres).
• 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).
• SOCIOLOGY 336 Society, Community, and Service -- The course includes a 100 hour internship component (Torres).  

Fall Semester 2012

• CE411 – Civil Engineering Capstone:  We design small civil engineering projects for local government.  In 2012-13, we are working with City of Leawood, City of Olathe and Johnson County (KS) Public Works. This course will continue into spring semester.

• DH 4220 Community Oral Health Field Experiences puts the students into the community working with populations in a setting different than the traditional dental office.  Students participate in fluoride varnish programs, dental screening programs, do oral health presentations to elementary classrooms, and provide dental hygiene services at an on-site dental clinic in a long term care facility.

• ENGL 110 - In Introduction to Academic Prose (Petri), students are pen pals with boys at Gillis in their residential treatment program.
• ENGL 225 - Writing About Place (McKeever), students complete service-learning projects at Della Lamb, Don Bosco, Glory House Services, and Jewish Vocational Services.
• ENGL 225 - Examining Cultural changes and Identity in America

  (Jordan). In this 225 course, students are investigating American identity through multiple genres. Students analyze the changes and influences that make up what it means to be “American.” The course also utilizes a "hands on" approach through service learning components by interacting with people of multicultural backgrounds.

• ENGL 225 - Intermediate Academic Prose (Johnson), has a service-learning focus on food justice. The students are working with Harvesters, Cultivate KC, Episcopal Community Services, and Badseed Farm.
• HLSC 490DH -Diversity in Health
• LLS - Intro to Latino/a Studies students will be assisting Alianzas with the Hispanic Needs Assessment.
• NURS 230 - Issues in Aging
• LAW 8752 Guardian Ad Litem Workshop -- Advanced study of guardian ad litem practice. (GAL). Topics may include adult and child orders of protection, requirements for guardian ad litem appointments, role of the GAL, ethical considerations, working with social workers and other professionals, and best practices in investigation, recommendation, and representation. Students will partner with volunteer attorneys to act as guardians ad litem in order of protection cases. Prerequisites: Rule 13 eligible.
• LAW 8790 Legal Aid Clinic -- Internship at offices of Legal Aid of Western Missouri. Students receive instruction in basic poverty law representation and techniques for experiential learning and, depending on placement, are given supervised instruction and practice opportunities in client counseling, fact investigation and discovery, case preparation and pleadings, community advocacy and trial techniques. Faculty and Legal Aid attorney supervision. Limited enrollment. Concurrent enrollment in certain courses may be required for some field placements. Ungraded. Pass/fail.
• LAW 8662 F Family Court Clerkship--Second or third-year students will serve as law clerks to judges and commissioners in the family court of Jackson County. Students work at least 80 hours at the court and attend review conferences over the course of the semester. Pass/Fail.
• SOC/ANTHRO 300 - Latin American Immigrants and Refugees students have the option of helping Alianzas with the Hispanic Needs Assessment.
• SOC 313 - Sociology of the Aging Woman students complete service-learning at Highland Park Nursing and Rehabilitation.
• SOC 404WI - The Sociology Capstone: Senior Seminar (Smith)students are working with area nonprofits to help with grant writing projects. Nonprofits: Alianzas, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City, Habitat for Humanity, Harvesters, Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council, Jewish Vocational Service, LISC Greater Kansas City, and Westside Housing.

• UPD 260 - History of Planning and Urban Design requires students to work along Troost Avenue to develop a historical analysis of several city blocks and how they’ve changed over time. 

• UPD 340 - Neighborhood and Community Development is  focused on 31^st and Troost with participation from neighborhood organizations and other representatives of service agencies. Teams of students are developing neighborhood profiles which will be presented to neighborhood leaders at the end of the semester.

Spring Semester 2012

• CJC 470WI - Capstone: Criminal Justice and Criminology
• DH 3340- Principles of Public Health
• DH 4220-Community Oral Health Field Experiences
• ECON 336 - The Kansas City Economy
• ENGL 110 - Introduction to Academic Prose (Cross, Jordan, Petri)
• ENGL 225 - Intermediate Academic Prose (Kline)
• ENGL 214 - Introduction to Fiction (Tascio)
• ENGL 433/5533 - Histories of Reading, Writing, and Publishing: medieval Women's Literacies (option)
• HLSC 230 - Issues in Aging
• NURS 230 - Issues in Aging
• PSY 428 - Applied Advanced Child Development
• PSYCH 5530 - Addressing Health Disparities through Community-based Participatory Research
• SOC 313 - Sociology of the Aging Woman