Service-Learning Course List
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| Course # | AEE (Agricultural and Extension Education) 480 |
| Title | Field Experiences |
| Quarters | Spring |
| Instructor | M. Susie Whittington, Associate Professor, Human and Community Resource Development |
| Sites | Ohio FFA Convention, Scarlet and Gray Ag Day |
| Description | Education outreach |
| Course # | AEE 530.01 |
| Title | Methods of Teaching in Informal Environments |
| Quarters | Winter |
| Instructor | M. Susie Whittington, Associate Professor, Human and Community Resource Development |
| Sites | Watterman Research Farm |
| Description | Education outreach to the Columbus School for Girls, 15 hours/student |
| Course # | AEE 530.02 |
| Title | Methods of Teaching in Public Schools |
| Quarters | Spring |
| Instructor | M. Susie Whittington, Associate Professor, Human and Community Resource Development |
| Sites | Tyler Run Elementary, cooperating high schools |
| Description | Education outreach, 15 hours per student |
| Course # | AFAM&AST 485.04 |
| Title | Study Abroad in Ghana |
| Quarters | Summer |
| Instructor | Walter Rucker, Associate Professor, African American & African Studies |
| Sites | University Practice Primary School in Winneba, Ghana |
| Description | Students donate books, stock the books in the library, engage in cross-cultural literacy projects with the school children, and have a discussion with school administrators and teachers. |
| Course # | AFAM&AST 495 |
| Title | Get Out the Vote! Service-Learning in Urban Communities |
| Quarters | Autumn, Summer |
| Instructor | J.L. Jeffries, Professor, African American & African Studies |
| Sites | Near East Side Columbus neighborhoods |
| Description | Students will work alongside neighborhood groups and religious congregations on the Near East side in a community-wide campaign. The course is designed to equip students with the skills necessary to run an effective nonpartisan, voter mobilization campaign based on the principles of community organizing. |
| Course # | AFAM&AST 705.04 |
| Title | Study Abroad in Ghana-Graduate Level |
| Quarters | Summer |
| Instructor | Walter Rucker, Associate Professor, African American & African Studies |
| Sites | University Practice Primary School in Winneba, Ghana |
| Description | Students donate books, stock the books in the library, engage in cross-cultural literacy projects with the school children, and have a discussion with school administrators and teachers. |
| Course # | AGR COMM 367 |
| Title | Agricultural Issues in Contemporary American Society |
| Quarters | Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Linda Houston, Associate Professor, Ag Communication |
| Sites | All in Wooster, OH |
| Description | 10 hours in Service-Learning and two reflective papers |
| Course # | ALLI MED 665 |
| Title | Understanding the Aging Process |
| Quarters | Autumn |
| Instructor | Margaret H. Teaford, Associate Professor, Clinical Allied Medicine |
| Sites | Students locate their own volunteer sites. |
| Description | Students volunteer with agencies serving older adults. |
| Course # | ALLI MED 670 |
| Title | Teamwork and Leadership in Health Sciences |
| Quarters | Winter |
| Instructor | Jill Clutter, Instructor, Allied Medicine |
| Sites | Various |
| Description | Students will gain a better understanding of leadership and team-building through experience in health-related projects; sites/projects depend on community needs. |
| Course # | ALLI MED 721 |
| Title | Practicum in Universal Design and Home Modifications |
| Quarters | Spring |
| Instructor | Margaret H. Teaford, Associate Professor, Clinical Allied Medicine |
| Sites | Community workshops and visiting with older adults living in the community |
| Description | Students assist with community workshops and conduct in-home assessments for residents. |
| Course # | ALLI MED 760S |
| Title | Service-Learning in Global Health |
| Quarters | Winter |
| Instructor | Dale C. Deubler, Lecturer, Allied Medicine |
| Sites | Merida, Yucatan, Mexico |
| Description | Direct, hands-on provision of allied medical services |
| Course # | ALLI MED 791 |
| Title | Case Studies in Clinical Gerontology |
| Quarters | Winter, Summer |
| Instructor | Margaret H. Teaford, Associate Professor, Clinical Allied Medicine |
| Sites | Variety of sites serving older adults |
| Description | Students are required to complete a total of four hours at agency or program serving older adults. |
| Course # | ALLI MED 795 |
| Title | Service-Learning in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico |
| Quarters | Winter |
| Instructor | Anne Kloos, Assistant Professor, Clinical Allied Medicine |
| Sites | Nursing home, school for disabled children, shelter for people with disabilities, patient homes |
| Description | Students provide physical therapy consultations and interventions to clients; 40 hours of direct care. |
| Course # | ART EDUC 252 |
| Title | The Computer in the Visual Arts |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer (service-learning version offered once each year) |
| Instructor | Karen Hutzel, Assistant Professor, Art Education |
| Sites | Weinland Park neighborhood and campus computer lab |
| Description | Students partner with girls in Gidget Technology for Girls program to produce imagery. |
| Course # | ART EDUC 767D |
| Title | Multicultural Art Education |
| Quarters | Autumn |
| Instructor | Karen Hutzel, Assistant Professor, Art Education |
| Sites | At students’ school sites |
| Description | Students are practicing art teachers and implement their own service-learning project in their own school. |
| Course # | ARTS & SCI 137.06 |
| Title | Why Should I Care?: Rewards and Challenges of Community Service |
| Quarters | Autumn |
| Instructor | Karen Hutzel, Assistant Professor, Art Education |
| Sites | Indianola Middle School |
| Description | Students work with children in an after-school program to develop a community arts project. |
| Course # | BUS ADM H502 |
| Title | Honors Seminar |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Nancy Lahmers, Senior Lecturer and Honors Cohort Coordinator, Fisher College of Business |
| Sites | Columbus City Schools and other sites |
| Description | Usually teaching Junior Achievement, but may include other activities. |
| Course # | CON SCI 694S |
| Title | Housing and Community Development: A Honduras Service-Learning Experience |
| Quarters | Autumn |
| Instructor | Golden Jackson, Associate Professor, Consumer Sciences; Erin Galloway, Program Manager, Human Development & Family Science; Marti Andrews, Program Director, Human Nutrition |
| Sites | Montaña de Luz, Honduras |
| Description | Students work with staff at an orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS and with residents of Nueva Esperanza, a community constructed post-Hurricane Mitch, to develop and lead projects linked to concepts of asset-based community development. |
| Course # | C&R PLAN 852 |
| Title | Urban Project and Policy Planning |
| Quarters | Autumn |
| Instructor | Jennifer Evans-Cowley, Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning |
| Sites | Mississippi Gulf Coast, Columbus |
| Description | Students participate in intensive interaction with communities in need of planning. |
| Course # | C&R PLAN 893 |
| Title | Internship Seminar in Planning |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Jennifer Evans-Cowley, Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning |
| Sites | Various sites in metropolitan area |
| Description | Each student provides 40 hours of service to community partners. |
| Course # | CS&E 616 |
| Title | Object-Oriented Systems Analysis |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer |
| Instructor | Bettina Bair, Senior Lecturer, Computer Science & Engineering |
| Sites | Various |
| Description | Students complete a software requirements specification for an outside client, working 5-10 hours/week. Clients are often area nonprofits, differ every quarter. |
| Course # | DENT 500, 501, 502, 503 |
| Title | Community-Based Dental Education |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer |
| Instructor | Canise Y. Bean, Associate Professor, Dentistry, Director of Community Education |
| Sites | Community dental clinics throughout the state |
| Description | Provision of direct dental care to underserved populations. |
| Course # | DENT 522 |
| Title | Clinical Geriatric Dentistry |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer |
| Instructor | Abdel Mohammad, Professor, Director of Geriatric Dentistry |
| Sites | Nursing homes, rural Appalachia sites in 10 counties, urban site at 1405 S High St in Columbus |
| Description | This course is a clinical rotation for senior dental students who provide up to 64 hours of service in a 2-week period. Students experience providing comprehensive dental care in community sites. |
| Course # | EDU PAES 542 |
| Title | Lifespan Motor Development |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer |
| Instructor | Jackie Goodway, Associate Professor, EDU PAES |
| Sites | Hubbard Elementary School, OSU Child Care Center, J Tyree Head Start Center, Gillie Senior Recreation Center |
| Description | Students participate in weekly instruction of early childhood motor skill programs or work with seniors in a physical activity recreational setting . |
| Course # | EDU PAES 650 |
| Title | Introduction to Exceptional Children |
| Quarters | Autumn, Spring |
| Instructor | Leah Herner-Patnode, Assistant Professor, Special Education |
| Sites | Local schools and community agencies |
| Description | Students must volunteer at least 10 hours during the quarter to provide assistance to persons with disabilities or those that provide services to persons with disabilities. |
| Course # | EDU P&L 271 |
| Title | Leadership in Community Service |
| Quarters | Spring |
| Instructor | Pamela Leonard, Coordinator of Career Services, EDU P&L, Ohio State Mansfield |
| Sites | Varies on the basis of the students’ interest and needs in the community, ranging from Domestic Violence Shelter, Homeless Shelter, Theraputic Riding Center, after-school programs, 4-H programs |
| Description | A minimum of 30 hours of active participation at a local nonprofit site preferably related to the student’s major. Student should make a contribution to the agency by assisting with a project; student should apply leadership concepts from readings to his/her experience. |
| Course # | EDU P&L 271 |
| Title | Leadership in Community Service |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Judith Guion-Utsler, Graduate Teaching Associate, EDU P&L |
| Sites | After School Academic Partnership (ASAP), Broad Street Food Pantry, Boys and Girls Clubs, Project Openhand; Short Stop Teen Center |
| Description | This course examines leadership in the context of service and community involvement. Students will have the opportunity to gain an understanding of service and leadership for the "common good," analyze the setting in which service takes place, actively participate in a community service setting for a minimum of three hours a week, gain hands on knowledge, skills, and experience about a specific community organization and develop their own leadership style and skills in a community setting. The purpose of this course is to prepare students for a lifetime of engaged, responsible and active community involvement and leadership. Students provide homework help, support food pantry clients, etc. |
| Course # | EDU P&L 271M |
| Title | Know It/Speak it: Exploring Leadership through Service ∓ Cross-cultural Understanding |
| Quarters | Winter |
| Instructor | Julius W. Mayo III, Assistant Director for Academic Initiatives, University Housing |
| Sites | Buckeye Mentoring Hub sites, INCH (International Neighborhood Coffee Hour) |
| Description | Students work with international and diverse communities to provide tutoring and aid with cultural adjustment, 30 hours per quarter |
| Course # | EDU T&L 608 |
| Title | Education and the Community |
| Quarters | Autumn (online course) |
| Instructor | Lynn Sametz, Ohio State Lima |
| Sites | Schools and child-serving agencies |
| Description | All students must work with a student for at least 20 hours a quarter. |
| Course # | EDU T&L 884|28 |
| Title | International Field Experience |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer |
| Instructor | Merry Merryfield, Professor, Teaching & Learning, College of Education and Human Ecology |
| Sites | International organizations |
| Description | Students spend 90 clock hours working in an international or cross-cultural environment (3-6 a year). |
| Course # | ENGINEER 694 |
| Title | Honduras Service Learning Experience |
| Quarters | Winter |
| Instructor | John Merrill, Director, First-Year Engineering Program, Engineering |
| Sites | Montaña de Luz, Honduras |
| Description | Engineering and Human Ecology projects to benefit the orphanage and local community |
| Course # | ENGLISH 367.05 |
| Title | The U.S. Folk Experience: Memory and Place in the University District |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter |
| Instructor | Ray Cashman, Assistant Professor, English |
| Sites | University District |
| Description | Students document and compile archive of community oral histories and personal narratives. |
| Course # | ENGLISH 567S |
| Title | Rhetoric and Community Service |
| Quarters | Winter |
| Instructor | Mindy Wright, Program Coordinator, English |
| Sites | See website for current list |
| Description | Students do writing projects for and with local nonprofit organizations. |
| Course # | ENR 835 |
| Title | Ecosystem Management Policy |
| Quarters | Autumn |
| Instructor | Tom Koontz, Associate Professor, School of Environment and Natural Resources |
| Sites | Central Ohio watershed partnerships |
| Description | Students work with a central Ohio watershed partnership to help the group with its activities, and students gather information from meetings and the group leader to write a consulting report that combines their experiences with concepts from course readings and discussions. |
| Course # | GEN S SC T172 |
| Title | Personal Development with Service-Learning |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter |
| Instructor | D R Elder, Associate Professor, Arts, Sciences, Business; Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Sites | Various, students choose own venue (taught at Agricultural Technical Institute, Wooster) |
| Description | Students volunteer 2 hours per week in the community. |
| Course # | GEOG 580 |
| Title | Elements of Cartography |
| Quarters | Winter |
| Instructor | Ola Ahlqvist, Assistant Professor, Geography |
| Sites | Varied |
| Description | Students produce maps on issues relevant to local community organizations. |
| Course # | HIMS 687 |
| Title | Documentation and Information Services in Non-Acute Care |
| Quarters | Winter |
| Instructor | Melanie Brodnik, Director and Associate Professor, Health Information Management and Systems |
| Sites | Variety of community sites |
| Description | Students are placed in agencies to help sites complete a project or correct a problem. |
| Course # | HUMN NTR 789.01, 789.02, 789.03 |
| Title | Practicum in Human Nutrition |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Gail Kaye, Program Director, Human Nutrition |
| Sites | Differ based on community needs |
| Description | Dietetic interns work with practicing dieticians in such settings as hospitals, Columbus Public Health, and after-school programs. |
| Course # | INT STDS (International Studies) 697 |
| Title | The Arts in Ghana with Service-Learning |
| Quarters | Spring |
| Instructor | D R Elder, Associate Professor, Arts, Sciences, Business; Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Sites | Volta Regional Hospital, Mawuko Girls’ Secondary School, EPC Ho Farms |
| Description | Students on this study abroad tour spend 2-4 hours each morning working at a placement. The dual goals are to develop close relationships with Ghanaians and to understand better the culture. We also partner with The College of Wooster and Kenyon College. |
| Course # | MED COLL 661 |
| Title | Patient-Centered Medicine |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Firuzan Sari Kundt, Program Coordinator, College of Medicine |
| Sites | Community health agencies |
| Description | Students learn about health-based/cultural organizations as well as the patient population these organizations serve. Students are also encouraged to reflect on their experiences at the end of their volunteer project. |
| Course # | OCC THER 725 |
| Title | Service-Learning in Occupational Therapy |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Melissa Rybski, Clinical Instructor, Occupational Therapy |
| Sites | Physicians Free Clinic |
| Description | Students provide OT and PT services and health screens to persons receiving care from a free clinic. |
| Course # | PHARMACY 664 |
| Title | Geriatric Experience |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Gerald L. Cable, Director, Professional Experience Programs, Pharmacy |
| Sites | Senior Centers associated with Catholic Social Services and Life Care Alliance |
| Description | Required experiential course for first-year pharmacy students. Small groups of students engage in social and service activities as identified by students, seniors, and community partners. |
| Course # | PHARMACY 784 |
| Title | Intermediate Experiential Practice |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Christine Murphy, Clinical Instructor, Pharmacy |
| Sites | Capital Park Family Health Center and Columbus Neighborhood Health Centers |
| Description | Intermediate experience in pharmacy practice in an ambulatory setting. Students help distribute medications to and educate patients about their medications and medication delivery devices. Students also participate in diabetes education classes for patients and provide drug information support to medical students and physicians. |
| Course # | PHARMACY 799 |
| Title | Partner for Promotion |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Jennifer Rodis, Assistant Professor, Pharmacy |
| Sites | Community pharmacies in Ohio |
| Description | Students work with community pharmacists, with mentorship from faculty, to develop patient care service at the pharmacy. Total of 320 hours throughout three quarters. |
| Course # | PHYS THER 670 |
| Title | Service-Learning in Physical Therapy |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Anne Kloos, Assistant Professor, Clinical Allied Medicine |
| Sites | Physicians Free Clinic |
| Description | PT and OT students provide direct consultation services, depression screening, and health education materials to medically underserved persons. |
| Course # | PHYS THER 770 |
| Title | Foundations of Physical Therapy Practice |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Deb Kegelmeyer, Associate Professor, Clinical Allied Medicine, Physical Therapy Division |
| Sites | Parkinson exercise groups, schools, OSU Recreation and Physical Activity Center |
| Description | Students perform 20 hours of service per quarter leading exercise programs with disabled individuals. |
| Course # | PUB HLTH 850 |
| Title | Public Health in Action |
| Quarters | Summer |
| Instructor | Randi Love, Clinical Associate Professor, Public Health |
| Sites | Varied |
| Description | Varies |
| Course # | SOCIOL 391 |
| Title | The Community |
| Quarters | Spring |
| Instructor | Townsand Price-Spratlen, Associate Professor, Sociology |
| Sites | Local and nonlocal organizations |
| Description | Students conduct a service delivery assessment of organizational capacity at a volunteer site. |
| Course # | SPANISH 367 |
| Title | Latinos, Literacy, and Language |
| Quarters | Autumn |
| Instructor | Donna Long, Associate Professor, Spanish |
| Sites | Columbus Literacy Council |
| Description | Students serve as tutors in computer laboratory. |
| Course # | SPANISH 689 |
| Title | Spanish in Ohio |
| Quarters | Winter, Summer |
| Instructor | Donna Long, Associate Professor, Spanish |
| Sites | Centro Esperanza Latina, Nationwide Children's Hospital Primary Care Centers, Campamento at Sugarbush, Hilliard Church of Christ |
| Description | Tutoring and mentoring children in after-school and summer programs, 60-80 hours/quarter |
| Course # | THEATRE 684.01 |
| Title | Creation of Outreach Theatre |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring |
| Instructor | Mark Shanda, Professor/Chair, Department of Theatre |
| Sites | Variety of OSU locations |
| Description | Interactive theatre events for social issues and policy training |
| Course # | THEATRE 689.02 |
| Title | Performance Studies in Outreach Theatre |
| Quarters | Winter |
| Instructor | Mark Shanda, Professor/Chair, Department of Theatre |
| Sites | Elementary and middle Schools |
| Description | Sharing in classrooms of issue-based drama 45 minutes in length plus teacher guide |
| Course # | VET CLIN 700.17 |
| Title | Shelter Medicine and Surgery |
| Quarters | Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer |
| Instructor | Larry Hill, DVM, Clinical Asst. Prof., Veterinary Clinical Sciences |
| Sites | Franklin County Animal Shelter, Capital Area Humane Society |
| Description | Fourth-year veterinary students provide 80 hours of medical and surgical care for homeless pets. |
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