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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

American Conversations<\/h2>\n

AmCon 202 A&B Pursuits of Happiness: 1920 to the present
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In this presidential election season, students will create radio projects that examine the prominent issues and possible candidates of 2016.\u00a0 St. Olaf\u2019s student-run radio station KSTO will then broadcast these radio “reports” to help educate the St. Olaf community and promote knowledgeable voter participation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Art & Art History<\/h2>\n

Art 238 Intermediate Photography<\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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The ACE component of this class is a joint project between a St. Olaf College class taught by Professor Meg Ojala and a Carleton College class taught by Professor Linda Rossi.\u00a0 Funding for this project is provided by a Mellon Foundation-sponsored Broadening the Bridge grant.\u00a0 Students learned from two naturalists from River Bend Nature Center in Faribault, Minnesota as they walked through Caron Park, a Rice County Park in rural Faribault, and took photographs. Student photographs and accompanying writings will be presented to the public at an event to be held at Carleton’s Weitz Center for Creativity and at St. Olaf College’s Groot Gallery in Northfield, Minnesota. \u00a0The digital images will also be donated to Rice County Parks and Facilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Environmental Studies<\/h2>\n

ENVST 399 A&B Seminar in Environmental Studies
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Students in this senior capstone course will have the option to complete research projects for the following community partners: Mirosol Farms\/Young Peoples Action Network, Rice Creek Wildlife Management Area, City of Northfield, and the Greater Northfield Sustainability Collaborative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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History<\/h2>\n

HIST 275 Environmental History
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Students pursued historical research on a topic of their choosing related to the environmental history of Northfield and presented their final projects in a public symposium at the end of the semester.\u00a0 The students’ research papers were shared with the Northfield History Collaborative\u00a0and made publicly accessible\u00a0on its website (click here<\/a>). \u00a0Any oral histories they conduct will be added to the\u00a0collections of the Northfield Historical Society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Political Science<\/h2>\n

PSCI 350 Seminar: Immigration\/Citizenship<\/strong><\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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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 230 A&B Research Methods<\/strong><\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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For the ACE component of this class, student groups conducted research projects for two on-campus offices and one off-campus non-profit organization. \u00a0In addition, the entire class assisted with education-related research for Hand-in-Hand preschool in Northfield.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Social Work<\/h2>\n

SW 261 Inclusive Practice: Groups, Organizations and Communities<\/strong><\/p>\nRead Description<\/span>

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Students assess strengths and problems of diverse groups, organizations, and communities and use the systems perspective to help client systems frame goals and plans for social change. Students develop plans for implementing change that are reflective, scientific, just, and grounded in the liberal arts.\u00a0 As a class, students participated in a project for Rice County Foster Care to create a more “Foster Care Friendly” Rice County.\u00a0 Students will prepare a poster display of the results of the community engagement activity to be presented during a reception for community stakeholders involved and the social work department.
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Spanish<\/h2>\n

SPAN 399 Seminar in Literature
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In order to help meet the learning objectives of this course, we ask students to participate in an off-campus project, Envolvimiento c\u00edvico en \/ “Civic engagement at” Greenvale Park. \u00a0Students will volunteer at Greenvale Park Elementary School<\/a> in support of after-school and evening programming for Latino and Hispanic elementary students and their families.\u00a0 The after-school PLUS program serves K-5 students identified as needing extra academic, social\/emotional, and\/or English language support.\u00a0 Volunteers help students transition from the end of their school day and then with the club they have scheduled for that day (topics include art, science, theater, fitness, etc.)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Evening activities include clubs for elementary students, Homework Help tutoring, adult education classes, and childcare for ages 2-5.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Theater<\/h2>\n

TH 360 Theater Senior Capstone
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As part of this course, we ask students to develop projects that reflect their interest in theater and what they want to do with theater once they graduate.\u00a0 This project will incorporate research work that they have pursued on their own and they will put that research into a material project.\u00a0 Interested students will have the option to develop a community-engaged project of their own design.\u00a0 Two students will produce 3 performances of, “What’s the Difference?” a Plays for Living play that helps students consider themes of cliques, bias, and self-identity.\u00a0 The performances, which also include a discussion session following each play, will be offered in 4th and 5th grade classes at Sibley Elementary (Northfield) and Prairie Creek Community School (Castle Rock).\u00a0 Another student will teach a class on theater improv with children in the Greenvale Park Community School after-school program.\u00a0 A fourth student will work with high school students in Northfield, creating a piece on theatre\/art in their lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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