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The descriptions below highlight the academic civic engagement component of each class. Please check the Academic Catalog<\/a>\u00a0for complete course descriptions and prerequisites.<\/p>\n

Dance<\/h2>\n

DANCE 399 Senior Dance Seminar
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This seminar course for senior Dance majors focuses on career development.\u00a0 Students design and carry out a senior capstone project with assistance from a team of faculty advisors.\u00a0 This year, several students chose to work with area choreographers to create solo performances, others elected to carry out a research project and presentation, and still others chose to develop a dance performance engaging fellow students.\u00a0 The performances will be offered to the public free of charge.<\/p>\n

This year’s performance is titled, “Beyond Boundaries”.\u00a0 Students will be presenting multiple, integrative aspects of their St. Olaf experiences through dance.\u00a0 Eight distinct students will perform and give presentations that go beyond the boundaries of how movement interacts with their lives.\u00a0 The evening will begin with four performances that explore emotions from life, the feelings of loss and hurt, chaos in movement, and issues of colonization, race and power. The performances feature collaborations with Twin Cities artists Stuart Pimsler, Brian Evans, and Timmy Wagner.\u00a0 The second half of the evening will consist of four presentations that explore how dance can be used as an intervention for individuals on the autism spectrum, the use of Dance Movement Therapy with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, the role of dance in occupational therapy, and how psychology, dance, and creativity can inform one another.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Marketing<\/h2>\n

MGMT 229 Arts Management
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This course provides an overview of the key issues that face arts administrators. Topics addressed include strategic planning, budgeting, fund raising, audience development, and human resource management as each relates to the unique setting of the arts. Case analysis and guest speakers provide opportunities to explore application of key concepts. Teams of students will research and write grants for various local arts organizations and present their projects to the community partners at the end of the semester.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MGMT 250 Marketing<\/strong><\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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Students are challenged to apply the marketing principles learned in class to current and real world marketing issues. Student teams develop strategic marketing plans for various local for profit and nonprofit organizations. Students present their recommendations to the community partners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nursing<\/h2>\n

NURS 388 Community Health<\/strong><\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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This course emphasizes the health of communities and populations. Topics include population-based health issues such as environmental health, epidemiology and communicable diseases. Students assess and screen individuals and families within communities, address identified needs and educate populations across the lifespan, collaborate with other health care professionals, make referrals, and participate in health promotion clinics. Clinical experiences occur in rural public health agencies, community-based programs, and in simulations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Philosophy<\/h2>\n

PHIL 252A&B Ethics and the Good Life
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For the ACE component of this class, students wrote a reflective essay about their volunteering experiences and motivations.\u00a0 A collection of these papers was shared with the Northfield United Way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Political Science<\/h2>\n

PSCI 350 Immigration and Citizenship
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Part of a multi-year project, the civic engagement component of this course builds upon past work by St. Olaf students regarding immigration issues.\u00a0 The Rural Immigration Network project aims to create a useful and well-used online network of national scope, which will share practical information and cultural knowledge.\u00a0 It seeks to reach rural communities diversifying through immigration across the United States.\u00a0 Students in this course conduct research to translate social science findings pertinent to community leaders in rural communities into a standardized format suitable for sharing online.\u00a0\u00a0 These findings will help to identify innovative, positive responses to immigration in rural communities.\u00a0 Taught both fall and spring semesters during 2015-16, students will contribute submissions to the Rural Immigration Network, including either a \u201cRecipe for Action,\u201d \u201cResearch Brief,\u201d or \u201cCall for Research\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Psychology<\/h2>\n

PSYCH 125B Principles of Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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Students in this course were asked to develop a presentation about psychology to teach to students in a local elementary school.\u00a0 Topics were selected by students from one chapter of the course textbook.\u00a0\u00a0 Read more about the “Students Teaching Students” project, which has been ongoing to approximately ten years, on the project website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See also: Muir, G. M., & van der Linden, G. J. (2009). Students teaching students: An experiential learning opportunity for large introductory psychology classes in collaboration with local elementary schools. Teaching of Psychology, 36(3), 169-173.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Spanish<\/h2>\n

SPAN 273: Cultural Heritage of the Hispanic U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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Students will be asked to take part in a number of after school activities at Greenvale Community School with elementary students who are primarily from Spanish-speaking families.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Social Work<\/h2>\n

SW 254 Inclusive Practice with Individuals and Families
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The story-partners project pairs students with an older community member residing at the Northfield Retirement Center. Students meet with their partner 6-8 times throughout the course of the semester for the specific purpose of encouraging their partners to tell stories about their lives. Students practice what they have learned through role-playing in class such as active listening and asking clarifying questions, which helps to build their one-on-one conversation and interviewing skills. The volunteer participants gain an enthusiastic listener, validation for their experiences, and the opportunity to reflect upon their lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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SW 373 Just Practice
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For the civic engagement component of this course, students tour the American Indian Center in Minneapolis to learn about what the center does and the community it serves.\u00a0 Students also participate in a powwow by serving food at a community feast and observing as part of the audience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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