In community-engaged learning courses, students go beyond the classroom to connect theory and practice. They collaborate with communities — in Ithaca and around the globe — to design, implement and evaluate real solutions to real problems. These rigorous courses are as dynamic as their fields of study and challenge students to grow as global citizens.
Browse below for all courses, or visit the class roster to see what’s available for winter 2021.
Course Listing
- Title
- Course No.
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Food Systems and Health
- Course No.
- VTPMD 6121
- Instructor
- K. Fiorella
- Credits
- 3
- Format
- Lecture
The goal of this course is to introduce concepts, theories and methods from multiple disciplines to provide students with an understanding of connections between food systems and health. Students will explore the complex interconnections of food systems and public health needs and learn from interdisciplinary experts and professionals in the fields of local and international public health, economics, sociology, and environment.
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Learning Behind Bars
- Course No.
- WRIT 4100
- Instructor
- P. Sawyer
- Credits
- 2
- Format
- Lecture
A service learning course offered in conjunction with the Basic Writing course of the Prison Education Project. Course work includes tutoring inmates once a week at Auburn Correctional Facility in addition to regular class meetings at Cornell.
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Service Learning for Democratic Citizenship: Literature of American Social Action Movements
- Course No.
- WRIT 4130
- Instructor
- D. Evans
- Credits
- 3
- Format
- Lecture
To what extent is civic engagement fundamental to democratic citizenship? This course seeks to answer that question by exploring the components of service learning as a discipline and to strengthen the intellectual foundation of students who wish to incorporate civic engagement into their curriculum. Students will become familiar with the history of service learning, explore competing theories of social justice and social inequality, and develop a framework for social action that exists at the juncture of theory and practice. Readings will include texts by Dewey, Freire, bell hooks, Franklin, Jefferson, Thoreau, Addams, Baldwin, King, Dorothy Day, and Fanon. Weekly seminar papers as well as a term paper through which students develop their own philosophy of civic engagement.
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