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Academic Civic Engagement Showcase:
Moving the Classroom Into the Community
December 8th, 2011
The Crossroads in the Buntrock Commons
Over 80 students from five courses presented a wide range of academic civic engagement projects.
Courses and Project Titles:
Community Healthy (NURS 388)
Collaboration with the Steele County Public Health Agency
- Addressing the Health Needs of Rural Workforce Through Implementation of a Health Fair
Ideals to Action: Cultivating Social Change (AMST 208)
Students developed collaborative projects in partnership with a variety of organizations
- Bilingual Cookbook for Growing Up Healthy
- Connecting Communities and Women in Politics: Working with the League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women
- Northfield TORCH: Fostering Communication and Providing Resources
- Peer Mediation and Volunteer Work at the Middle School Youth Center
- Public Education on Redistricting in Minnesota
- St. Olaf and the Rural Enterprise Center: Forging a Partnership
- Volunteer Recruitment Program for Laura Baker Services
- Way Park Memorial Garden
Immigration and Citizenship (PSCI 350)
Students completed community-based research in Faribault in collaboration with Growing Up Healthy
- Developing a Citizenship Survey
Introduction to Environmental Studies (ENVST 137)
Students researched the environmental impacts of various food items
- Influence the Label
- Environmental Impact of Apple Cider
- Clash of the Crunches: Colossal Berry Crunch vs. Cap’n Crunch Crunchberries
- Average Joe’s Bananas
- What’s in Your Hamburger?
- An Eco-friendly Thanksgiving
- Sustainability and Beverage Bottles
- The Cost of Coffee: Hidden Impacts of Packaging
- Footprints of Organic and Non-organic Foods
- Take Back the Tap
- Cropopoly
- Story of Pizza and its Environmental Impact
- Coffee: Secrets of the Trade
- Sustainable Beer for the Eco-friendly Peer
Research Methods (PSYCH 230)
Students designed and implemented a research project in collaboration with the After Dark Committee of the Student Government Association
- Social Climate and Late-Night Programming: Surveying St. Olaf Students about the After Dark Committee
Academic civic engagement is an approach to teaching and learning that encourages students to learn in the community and to apply academic knowledge and tools to address community issues as an integrated component of an academic course. To learn more about Academic Civic Engagment, see this website.
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