This collection of syllabi represents the wide range of Community Engaged Learning (CEL) at JMU. You’ll find diversity in discipline, type of service, level of commitment, and degree of integration. These syllabi are abridged to specifically highlight the CEL component.
- Sample Syllabus: ARED 490 Art Education Secondary Practicum
- Sample Syllabus: DANC 325 Dance in Community
- Sample Syllabus: GEOG 469 Visualizing Change
- Sample Syllabus: HM 442 Hospitality Senior Seminar
- Sample Syllabus: HM 442 Hospitality Senior Seminar Online
- Sample Syllabus: HON 300 Chesapeake Connections
- Sample Syllabus: HON 300 Global Citizenship in S-L Context
- Sample Syllabus: HON 351 Narrative Writing in the Helping Professions
- Sample Syllabus: HTH 231 Population of Health Determinants
- Sample Syllabus: ISAT 473 Local Agriculture and Farm Internships
- Sample Syllabus: KIN 303 Motor Development and Learning
- Sample Syllabus: LTLE 610 Principles of Instructional Design
- Sample Syllabus: MKTG 385 Consumer Behavior
- Sample Syllabus: SOWK 487 Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees
- Sample Syllabus: SPAN 430 Advanced Business Spanish
- Sample Syllabus: SRM 440 Sport and Recreation Management Seminar
- Sample Syllabus: UNST 151 Making Sense Of Beliefs And Values- A Guided Tour For Global Citizens
CEL Courses with Online Content
- Case Watkins, watki2ac@jmu.edu
- This course examines maps and practices of mapping to analyze distributions of justice and injustice across space. Using case studies, multimedia content and hands-on exercises spanning the fields of criminal, global and social justice, students learn the fundamentals of geospatial analysis while designing their own digital maps and interactive web sites. Students work with community partners to create story maps to more accessibly demonstrate community areas of concern.
- In 2019, the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank partnered with students to create a community mapping project analyzing food access, food justice, and food sovereignty in Harrisonburg.
- Laura Hunt Trull, trulllh@jmu.edu
- Emphasizing active learning, this course teaches the basics of grant and proposal writing. culminating with the distribution of two $5,000 grants to local nonprofit organizations. Efficient research, persuasive prose and the importance of relationships are stressed. Private and corporate philanthropy and government grants are examined.
- Learning by Giving Project
- Dear Future Grant Writing Students video
- Kathryn Hobson, hobsonkd@jmu.edu
- The goal of this course is to work in a feminist collective to write daily blog posts for the Shout Out! JMU blog. Students will organize the blog, research and write blog posts, publicize the blog, and create dialogue by commenting on one another's blog posts as a means of consciousness raising.
- Kathy Guisewite, guisewkf@jmu.edu
- Students provide support to a Caregivers Community Network family who is managing caregiving responsibilities for an elder member (age 60+ years). Some of these strategies include family interests/needs, self-care practices, and evidence-based strategies that support caregivers and those living with dementia. This course is intended to benefit all participants (family caregivers, their care-receiving members and students) by offering an academic and service-focused experience that validates the common need for human connection, understanding and respect.
- Caregivers Community Network 20
Campus Compact Syllabi Database
Campus Compact is a national coalition of 1,000+ colleges and universities committed to the public purposes of higher education by building democracy through civic education and community development. They maintain a syllabi archive with a wide range of national and international examples.
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