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Arts

Advanced Topics in Caribbean Studies, Bowdoin, Joanna Bosse
To better understand the relationship between musical expression and collective identity formation, students created documentary movie projects about some of the aspects of Caribbean music.

Architectural Design II, Bowdoin, Wiebke Theodore
As an introduction to architectural design, studio projects help students develop skills in program and context analysis, conceptual design principles and processes, and presentation techniques. Students designed a sculpture garden entry and a small community building for a vacant lot and park on Cushing Street in downtown Brunswick. Students engaged with the sites by exploring options for these two neighborhood areas of concern.

ART 2037 Topics in Ceramics, Green Mountain, Swyler
Bowls created for hunger awareness fundraiser, in cooperation with high school students to benefit local food shelf.

ART 2150 Jewelry and Metals, Johnson State, Leila Bandar
The service learning components enhanced in-class jewelry making techniques through the act of teaching students at Laraway Youth and Family Services (youth deemed at-risk and emotionally challenged). The applied learning of jewelry making skills yielded direct, encouraging, immediate and lasting results. Working with metals and teaching created two levels of understanding: the art of production and the art of teaching. It also lifted spirits and brought new meaning to the field of metals. Bracelets were sold in a fundraiser and all proceeds went to the Laraway School art department and in part to the local animal rescue league.

Art 4040 Advanced Photography, Johnson State, John Miller
Students in Advanced Photography partnered with the Craftsbury Community Care Center, a senior living environment whose residents range from independent to minimally assisted. Students interacted weekly with elders. Their new relationships helped our students understand the nature of aging and, if only for a semester, bring companionship and joy to what turned out to be a very appreciative group of people. Class members visited a number of times every week, told stories, listened to stories, joined seniors in art projects, scrabble games and gathered in Craftsbury for an evening of dancing and entertainment during Mardi Gras week. During the time students were at the Center, they photographed residents individually, in groups, and documented various aspects of their lives. This led to the final and most well developed component of the service learning endeavor: a framed, traveling exhibition, accompanied by reflective statements written by the students as the project progressed.

FE211 Public Art Now, Maine College of Art, Christina Bechstein
This course will deal directly with creating our art "in" and "for" public space. Our approach will position the audience and the site at the creative center of our investigation. We will work collaboratively and individually to develop site-specific projects and place them within the city of Portland. This course aims to be both a practical and a theoretical approach to art in our shared landscape, focusing on location-oriented and situational art.

FE 267 The art of Collaboration & Participation, Maine College of Art, Christina Bechstein
Students investigate the construction and complexity of working with others, and stimulate dialogue to create dynamic vision by blurring the boundary between art and community

PR 207 Topics in Print: Alternative Delivery Systems, Maine College of Art, Adrianne Herman
This course explores an approach to printmaking as defined by topical issues, rather than specific techniques. Building on a basic foundation of print skills, the course examines how the logic of printmaking can be applied to non-tradtional genres such as installation and community-based initiatives

PR 401-402 Printmaking IV, Maine College of Art, Elizabeth Jabar, Alex Kahn
Students produce a large body of independent and consistant work using any print media. In addtion, students complete a collaborative suite of prints while working with a community partner organization as part of their final portfolio

Architecture, Norwich University, Wendy Cox
In Wendy Cox's Architecture classes, students designed the Visitor's Center for Hubbard Park, VT; researched and documented the site analysis of Blueberry Lake for the Town of Warren, VT; programming and designing the research and visitor center for the Chazy Reef at Isle La Motte, VT; designed and built the architectural periodical collection display and storage on the Mezzanine of the Kreitzberg Library; and conducted master planning for the downtown of Keene Valley, NY.

Business

AC 123 Federal Taxation, Andover, Richard Carter
Students learn to prepare individual federal tax returns for senior citizens and community members who file simple tax forms. In a partnership with the IRS, students in Federal Taxation learn the new tax rules along with the class material and are then able to assist the public with tax filing. This year the students offered the VITA service on both our Portland and Lewiston campuses providing service to nearly 180 community members.

Law of Business Organizations, Andover, Jennifer Hayden
Students worked with a local Maine artist, Darcy Stillman to present information to her and other artists on business organization, marketing, finance, state requirements and resourses. This gave the student's an opportunity to present what they learning in the class in a workshop format for local artists.

EN290 Business Writing, Andover, Christine Lashua
Students review the web site of a non-profit organization and develop surveys and implement focus groups to give feedback from end users of the site. The students develop a report of their findings and present the information to the non-profit agency involved.

BUS 4030 Marketing Research, Castleton State, Paul Cohen
This course offers a study of the assembly, analysis, and interpretation of information used to make marketing decisions. Includes research design, sampling techniques, data collection and analysis. This senior-level marketing research class is currently working on projects that would involve research for the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, The Castleton FYS and Honor's program, a local group who want to research the possibility of a Railroad Museum in Rutland, and others.

Nonprofit & Social Marketing, Champlain, Elaine Young
Students completed preselected diverse marketing projects in schools and non-profits with a heavy reflection component.

Corporate Social Responsibility in Chile, Colby, Patrice Franko, Ariel Armony
Case studies of corporate social responsibility in Chile in partnership with a Chilean NGO Vincular.

SUS 3003 / ENV 3004 Building Sustainable Communities, Green Mountain, Jacob Park
Students did research, development, and outreach work to create local food purchasing guidelines for the College's dining service, and contributed food preparation and surveys for a student-initiated, week-long local food lunch program.

Small Business Management, Kennebec Valley, Michelle Geriou-Pare
Engaged students in service to identified small business...assisted with business plan, marketing plans and development of websites

Communications

Examining Mass Media on Society, Castleton State, Sanjukta Ghosh
Students explore some of the ways media exert influences on our lives, how the media institution interacts with other power institutions, and how this impacts issues of race, gender, and class. After compiling their findings, the students will present them to children in the local schools (Castleton, Poultney and Fair Haven Elementary, Castleton Village School and Poultney and Fair haven High Schools).

CM 351 Radio Production, Norwich, Doug Smith
Students produced 10-15 minute audio and 30-second PSAs to publicize/promote the work of area human servies agencies.

Effective Speaking, Southern Vermont, Lynda Sinkiewich
Students participated in a variety of experiences including serving as a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters and serving as a panel member hearing and deciding on cases at Center for Restorative Justice. Students had to research, write, and present an advocacy speech to the SVC community.

Advertising, Southern Vermont, Barbara Snyder
The class assisted with the Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl for Kid's Sake from designing promotional pieces to creating corporate challenge materials.

Education

Working with Children and Families, Andover, Bethany Carpenter, Melodie Ham
Students worked with Portland and Lewiston Domestic Abuse Centers to collect toys for a toy box in the shelter. These toys will be available to children who come into the shelter. Often these families leave quickly with little chance to collect belonings. This effort provided a toy box and toys for those children who may not have had time to bring their own toys with them.

Literacy and Love of Words, Bennington, Center for Creative Teaching
This course equires each student to tutor a local child for 1.5 hours each week during the term. The students also build connections with those they tutor, giving them positive role models who read, encourage reading, and pay special attention to kids. With 30 students out in the community, there is a lot of impact.

Foundations of Education, Castleton State, Radha Bhatkal
The Foundations for Education courses offer a service-learning component, in conjunction with early field experience. Students participate in a specified service project, maintain a journal for their reflections, complete a research paper on a topic related to their service project, and present their findings to their class. Some of their community partners are Foundations for Excellent Schools, America Reads, Sand Hill Residential Program, and Castleton Elementary School.

Field Experience I, Champlain, Laurel Bongirono
Students created a service-learning curriculum in day care of primary school settings, with a heavy reflection component.

Learning Theory, Champlain, Ken Reissig
Students were matched with African refugees for tutoring and mentoring, with a heavy reflection component.

Teaching Students with Special Needs, Colby, Karen Kusiak
This course considers the skills and attitudes necessary for teaching students with special needs in regular settings. Students also examine the roles and responsibilities regular educators have for teaching students who qualify for special education. For the service-learning component of the course, students serve in local classrooms, assisting teachers in working with children and adolescents who have physical and mental disabilities.

EDU 2000 Early Field Experience, Green Mountain, Mark D'Amico
EDU 3000 Observation and Participation
EDU 3500 Advanced Participation
Students filled a variety of roles for 60 hours in five area elementary and secondary schools.

EDU 1000 Intro to Environmental Education, Green Mountain, Teresa Coker
Students each presented 8 hours of hands-on environmental education programs to 4th grade students.

EDU 3071 Math Methods, Green Mountain, Mark D'Amico
Assisted teachers in math instruction in grades K, 4, and 6. Created math activities and implemented lessons. Helped with after school Math Club.

EDU 2110 Exceptional Populations, Johnson State, Jean Haigh
In the Spring 2006 semester, the Exceptional Populations EDU 2110 class was given an optional opportunity to participate in a 20 hour field experience with individuals with developmental disabilities through the Developmental Services Division of Lamoille County Mental (LCMH). The field experience was open to ten students in the class and was in lieu of the final research paper. They were required to maintain a reflective journal, give a presentation to the class and write a paper on their experiences, indicating how their lives have been affected and how they will use this knowledge in the future. The Exceptional Population course includes a significant section on developmental disabilities, including an emotional and thought provoking video, Twenty Five Years After Willowbrook. Professional staff from LCMH presented in class, providing a historical context, the present philosophies and a description of the field experience.

ED 351 Science Methods for Elementary Teachers, Norwich University, Diane Byrne
A student presented health information at the Northfield Boys & Girls Club Girl's Night.

ED 232 Curriculum and Methods, Norwich University, Diane Byrne
Students designed a Vermont Standards based social studies unit to meet a curriculum need for their mentor teacher and they gave the finished product to the school to build up a unit library.

Literacy in Education, NH Community Tech, Patricia Corbett
Students developed and delivered literacy programs to schools, libraries, non-profits.

Art, Music, Drama & Movement, NH Tech, Anita French
This course focuses on nurturing creativity in young children through the provision of developmentally appropriate activities in the areas of art, music, dramatic play, and movement. The various methods and materials used to stimulate a young child's creative impulses will be explored.The mission of this project will be to educate high school students about appropriate creative arts experiences with young children, especially in the area of art.

School, Home, and Community Relations, Southern Maine, Jeanne Najemy
Students visit community agencies that provide services to low-income families and individuals

Service Learning Project, Sterling Colelge
In the fourth year core course Service Learning Project, students participate in service to the regional community and receive exposure to volunteer organizations. Some recent volunteer efforts include: The Mississquoi River restoration project, Project Aware for families of domestic violence, Planned Parenthood, A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and blueberry farm, North Country Animal League, The Red Cross, The Craftsbury Historical Society, Day care facilities, The Craftsbury children's holiday festival, The Craftsbury library, a blood bank, and in organizing voter registration.

English

ENG 1061 English Composition, Castleton State, Elizabeth Ashworth, Drennan Spitzer
Students study and practice the forms of writing most important to academic thought and expression, including the documentary conventions necessary for the writing of research papers. Not only do students review grammar and usage, punctuation and mechanics, but they consider how the nuances of language and style affect the other elements of rhetoric. Students study and practice the forms of writing most important to academic thought and expression, including the documentary conventions necessary for the writing of research papers. Additionally, this course includes a service-learning unit. Students are asked to actively participate in the larger community by volunteering your time each week as part of the America Reads program. After a training session, students are partnered with a local elementary school student. Each week, they meet with their student to read. This, again, is an important part of the course; students are expected to fulfill this obligation by meeting with your student every week. Students will then use their community experiences in their writing assignments for the course.They will write a 4 – 5 page paper that has two parts. First, is the personal experience portion, which details their service experience. Second, is the research portion, which explains the mission, history, clientele, problems, and successes of the organization the student volunteers for.

ENG 1070 Effective Speaking, Castleton State College, Gregg Supernovich
This service-learning course will give students an opportunity to become civically engaged within our community, and it will teach about structure and craft of good public speaking. Students will learn to speak clearly, concisely and vigorously in a conversational manner using index cards for reference. The daunting task of giving a speech will be simplified by breaking speech down into a series of steps, including a preparation outline and a delivery outline. In terms of the service-learning component, students will spend one hour per week for 12 weeks mentoring, tutoring and supporting young children at the Rutland Boys and Girls Club or cooking and serving dinner and interacting with former prisoners at the Rutland Dismas House. Students will be able to choose where they want to perform your service. Such work will offer the student the opportunity to learn strong, one-on-one listening and speaking skills. Also, they will use their service-learning experience to develop many of their speeches for class.

ENG 2010 Expository & Argumentative Writing, Castleton State College, Andy Alexander
An on-going service-learning project in this section of English 2010 will have Castleton students exchanging letters with youngster students in the After School Program in Alburg, VT (Alburg is in the very top left corner of the state, where NY, VT and Quebec all meet). Students will be communicating with young kids, many of whom don't have strong communication skills and many of whom have a very limited view of the world. These issues will present challenges, yet this is precisely why it is worth doing. This class is about writing for specific audiences, and these students are a very specific audience, that will make you adapt your communication skills to their needs and interests. Your job is to engage them in some meaningful way. What way that is will depend largely on the nature of the child you communicate with.

Holocaust Lessons, Colby, Natalie Harris
Through shared readings, reflection, discussions, videos, and individual research, the Holocaust and American reactions to it were explored. Topics for research included children in the Holocaust, ghettos, resistance, rescue, propaganda, and Jewish culture in pre-Hitler Germany. The culminating activity consisted of two presentations on the Holocaust by pairs or small groups of Colby students at the Waterville Junior High School to seventh grade classes.

Projects in Creative Writing, Colby, Debra Spark
The first section of the course is spent discussing how to teach poetry to 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students. Following this preparation, in pairs students will each both teach and assistant teach six-week writing workshops in 15 different public school classrooms. Colby students produced a literary magazine of the public school students' poems and presented the magazine to the public school students at a Poetry Carnival students planned and delivered this May at Colby College.

HU300J Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Daniel Webster College, Daniel Malachuk
This version of the course focused on the mid-century literature of the "American Renaissance," especially in relation to contemporaneous debates about democracy (including slavery) and industrialism. Primary authors were Douglass, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman. Students completed a community-based project requirement with one of these two projects: an 8-10 page researched paper describing and analyzing one of several field trips to be scheduled during the semester; a half-hour presentation/discussion of a major author to ESL students at the Nashua Adult Learning Center or sixth-graders at Birch Hill Elementary School.

Poetry Slam, Rivier, E. Wright
Through sharing love for words and works of poetry, children enhance their literacy skills and develop a joy of learning

Intro. to Creative Writing Workshops, Southern Vermont, Scott O'Callaghan
The entire class developed a Creative Writing contest for elementary school children in the Bennington Public Schools. Students created the writing prompts, judged the entries, and organized and led the reception for the entrants and their families.

Approaches to Literature, Unity, Kate Miles
Literature class in which students write children's books with environmental education themes.

Environmental Studies

Sustainable Landscape Horticulture, Unity, Doug Fox
Horticulture class in which students apply their design and implementation skills in local communities as consultants and design advisors.

Principals of Land Use Planning, Bowdoin, Kristina Ford
In order to better understand the physical principals of land-use planning and the legal and socioeconomic principals that underlie it, students interviewed residents from 12 mid-Coast communities to develop an inventory or regional rural resources. The groups then evaluated ordinances to determine the level of protection afforded these spaces through local regulation.

Environmental Policy and Politics, Bowdoin, D. John, E. Johnson
Students are provided with the opportunity to examine origins of environmental policy and various forms of its implementation. In partnership with the Androscoggin River Alliance, students researched the environmental management of the Androscoggin River from Lewiston and Auburn to Merrymeeting Bay. Students interviewed different stakeholders including representatives from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (MEDEP), industries, municipalities, non-profit organizations and citizens.

Marine Environmental Geology, Bowdoin, E. Laine, C. Field
Through introduction to the aspects of marine geology and oceanography that affect the environment and marine resources, students in this course examined currents and water quality in Quahog Bay and Harpswell Sound. Quahog Bay is an environmentally challenged waterbody in Casco Bay and has been the site of ongoing study and collaboration between Bowdoin students and the Friends of Casco Bay.

Environmental Education, Bowdoin, K. Wooldrik
Each student in this course developed a relationship with a Longfellow Elementary teacher, whose class they taught on a weekly basis. The course challenged the teachers (Bowdoin students) to extend their knowledge of environmental studies and to create meaningful lessons that enriched the elementary education by opening up the Longfellow students' senses to the natural world around them. In keeping with the subject matter, this course has a strong emphasis on learning through direct experience.

ENV 1210 Environmental Harm and Mitigation Strategies, Castleton State, Judy Robinson
The "Environmental Harm and Mitigation Strategies" class will be installing "rain gardens" on campus as a demonstration project of engineered storm water mitigation. The project will be installed on the Castleton State College campus, and the Physical Plant Department (PPD) of the College is agreeable for rain garden installation at the aforementioned sites (Moriarty and Huden) as the project will fit with the goals and objectives of the campus master plan.

ELA 1013 Environmental Science, Green Mountain, Natalie Coe
Students planted native trees as part of a restoration project and create a natural/political history timeline for The Nature Conservancy. Also completed installation of campus labyrinth and contributed to proposals to the Student Campus Greening Fund. Roughly 8 hours of service completed by each student.

ENV 3054 Sustainable Farming Systems, Green Mountain, Philip Ackerman-Leist
Students completed more than 4 hours each of service for the Welsh Harvest festival open to the public. They helped with setup and fod preparation.

ENV 3000 Special Topics in Environmental Studies, Green Mountain, Eleanor Tison
Students contributed planning, food preparation, and program facilitation for two public events sponsored by RAFFL - a local agricultural nonprofit.

EC 265 - Environmental Economics, Middlebury, Jon Isham
Student projects focused on the theme of Planning for a More Sustainable Addison County and included work with a variety of community partners including area K-12 schools, affordable housing providers, the regional planning commission, the Middlebury Business Association, local biofuels and renewable energy associations, and a local apple orchard.

ENVS 1003 Social Movement/Climate Change
Students developed a climate change movement, and put their studies into action by sponsoring a national conference.

ES 211 Conservation and Environmental Policy Projects, Middlebury, Jonathan Isham
Students worked on several climate policy projects including work with the Climate Crisis Coalition to advance their Kyoto and Beyond platform in the 2006 mid-term elections; extensive networking to garner support for the Cape Wind Project; developing materials on the impact climate change will have on the maple syrup producers in Vermont for the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network; developing materials that will diversify and broaden Vermont Interfaith Power and Light's constituency; and work to publicize what the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative will mean to Vermonters.

Social Marketing and Environmental Affairs (Winter Term), Middlebury, Nadine Barnicle
Students undertook three collaborative projects including, "Buy Local, Think Local: Consumer awareness of buying locally produced food," "Vermont's Low Emission Vehicle Program: Are Vermonters aware of emissions when making vehicle purchasing decisions?," and "Wind Energy at Addison County Elementary Schools: A Feasibility Study."

Focusing the nation on a Clean-Energy Future, Middlebury (Winter Term), Jon Isham and Eban Goodstein
Students in Focusing the Nation on a Clean-Energy Future had the opportunity to design the strategy for "Focus the Nation," a major new educational initiative designed to help stabilize the climate in the 21st Century. Projects included a start-studded video on how to take action on your campus, building the movement through new MySpace and Facebook pages, creating national awards (The Focus Awards) to recognize leaders in the climate change movement, and the Alumni Climate Commitment to engage alumni from colleges and universities across the country.

ENVS 401 Global Environmental Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility, Middlebury, Kathryn Morse
The Environmental Studies Senior Seminar is the capstone course for the Environmental Studies major. The goal in this course is to bring seniors together from the various foci and with different experiences to examine a specific topic in depth and from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is our intention to provide each student with an opportunity to apply their general background knowledge and specific expertise of your foci to a single issue that is relevant not only to the local area but also to the global environment as well. The theme this semester is global environmental governance and corporate responsibility. Members of the class will form working groups, create problem statements, and address topics of research and partnership with ECOLOGIA, a leader in the development of an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard. The course will culminate in final group products and a public discussion of the semester's work presentation at the ES Colloquium.

ENVS 401A Advancing the Local Food Movement, Middlebury, Nan Jenks-Jay
This year's seminar is structured around the theme of advancing the local food movement. Students will meet and collaborate with groups in Vermont attempting to grapple with this complex subject as they attempt to create new markets, improved distribution, increased awareness and ultimately a sustainable industry around locally produced foods. Groups of students will delve deeper into specific issues to help partners make faster progress on this important front in Vermont - contributing to a traditional way of life, a rural economy, a bucolic landscape, sustainable agriculture and a culture about food that is only just beginning to be appreciated. Classes will focus on brief colloquium discussions, weekly reading, student-led discussions, and journal reflections. In addition, members of the seminar will form project groups linked with Vermont Fresh Network (VFN) and Shelburne Farms, community organizations in Vermont, each of which is approaching a challenge with regard to promoting local foods. Each group will be charged with completing a set of tasks for its community partner, working with its leaders to further goals and assemble useful information. The course will culminate in final group products and a formal, public presentation at the ES Woodin Colloquium Series.

ENVS 401B River Corridor Conservation Planning, Middlebury, Marc Lapin
This year's seminar is structured around the theme of river corridor conservation planning. Classes will focus on weekly reading, student-led discussions, and journal reflections. In addition, members of the seminar will form project groups linked with the Vermont River Conservancy (VRC), a community organization in Vermont that is working on a variety of river conservation issues. Each group will be charged with completing a set of tasks for its community partner, working with its leaders to further goals and assemble useful information. The course will culminate in final group products and a formal, public presentation at the ES Woodin Colloquium Series.

ES 401C Senior Seminar Projects, Middlebury, Steve Trombulak
With a focus on Managing Land for Nature and Culture, students worked with the Middlebury Area Land Trust to explore a possible extension of the North Country Trail from the Crown Point Bridge in New York to Vermont's Long Trail; partnered with the Lewis Creek Association to investigate land use issues and opportunities within the river corridor; and assisted the Hinesburg Land Trust with integrating the community voice into the management plan for a conserved parcel of land.

ES 401D Senior Seminar Projects, Middlebury, Molly Costanza-Robinson
Partnering with Addison County Transit Resources, students undertook three projects related to the course theme of Transportation and Sustainability. These included life-cycle analyses for alternative fuels and emerging bus technologies; extensive survey work to determine why people are and aren't utilizing public transportation; and building the capacity for enhanced town engagement and funding support for public transportation services.

ES 401E Senior Seminar Projects, Middlebury, Nadine Barnicle
With a focus on Healthy Local Communities, students worked with Vermont Family Forests to develop a model for, and gauge local support for, a sustainable firewood program modeled after community supported agriculture programs; the Addison County Solid Waste District to help them move towards a Zero Waste ideal; and with the Northeast Organic Farming Association-VT and Integrated Energy Solutions to develop recommendations for energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy applications for local farms.

ES 401F Senior Seminar Projects, Middlebury, Nadine Barnicle
Partnering with the Vermont Air Pollution Control Division, the American Lung Association of Vermont, and People for Less Pollution, students tackled some of the unintended health consequences of alternatives to fossil fuels-specifically wood burning in Outdoor Wood Boilers (OWBs). Students were immersed in the political process of new OWB regulations, connected these three very important stakeholder groups, and provide community resources for proper OWB use.

ES 401G Senior Seminar Projects, Middlebury, Jon Isham
Under the theme of Global Civil Society, students partnered with community partners working internationally to identify the role of civil society in addressing three major challenges-energy and climate change, resource use, and rural poverty. Project partners included Lila Buckley '04 of the Global Environment Institute, Beijing, Gretchen Hund '79 in her role as communications liaison for the FutureGen Alliance, and local social entrepreneur Allan Baer and his colleagues at the Millennium Institute.

ES 401H Senior Seminar Projects, Middlebury, Molly Costanza-Robinson
Under the theme of "Pest Control Issues and Alternatives," students partnered with a newly formed mosquito control district in Addison County to devise integrated pest management strategies. In partnership with this Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont, two other student groups worked on developing a grant resource guide for on-farm research on pest control issues, and synthesized control strategies for common pest issues facing organic farmers.

Gender Studies

Girlhood and Adolescence, Bowdoin, Krista McQueeney
This course explored how young girls construct a sense of self amidst considerable social inequalities. Students examined the sociological realities of girls' lives, taking young people seriously as actors who are shaped by - but sometimes subvert - entrenched inequalities in educational, sexual, and consumer cultures in the contemporary United States. Students spent time learning from and mentoring 8th and 9th grade girls in the Brunswick public schools.

WSM 105 Introduction to Women's Studies, Castleton State, Sanjukta Ghosh
A multicultural approach to the study of women and their relationship to the world around them, including an interdisciplinary survey of research and literature by and about women. The data collected will be made into creative flyers and distributed in highly populated areas around campus.

Boys to Men, Colby, Mark Tappan
This course explores the thoughts and feelings, physical responses, life choices, and aspirations of boys and men, as they act and interact with girls and women, with each other, and with the larger sociocultural context in which they live. This course also looks at how power, privilege, and difference shape boys' and men's lives. Students presented workshops to local 7th and 8th grade boys; these boys then attended a mini-Boys to Men Conference, run by the students in the class, which was held on Colby’s campus in late April.

History

ACS 220 American Cultural Studies, Bates, Margaret Creighton
Students interviewed retired mill workers for the Museum L/A oral history project.

History in the Public Sphere, Bates, David Scobey
Students did archival research for Museum L/A and created a a portable exhibit for the museum.

Family and Community in American History, Bowdoin, Sarah McMahon
Students created an online research project about Brunswick for local eighth grade students to use as part of the Maine History curriculum.

MASH, Champlain, Dr. Rob Williams
"Deconsturcting the American Dream" theme with required 25 hours of service. Final project weaving service and learning was a video documentary for each team.

Vermont History and Government, Johnson State, Senator William Doyle
Students examined Vermont political tradition and Vermont history. Students worked with producer Vince Franke to bring the history of Franklin County alive by interviewing elders of the region. Based upon those interviews, they created Life in Franklin County, a video documentary available in DVD format. The video had its premiere to a large audience and will be shown in numerous community settings and utilized by local high school history teachers.

HI 364 History, Norwich, Rowly Brucken
Students tutored immigrants in English and citizenship skills with Central VT Adult Basic Education and performed office work for the VT Bicyclist and Pedestrian Coalition.

HI 109 Historical Methods, Norwich, Rowly Brucken
Students document oral histories of NU graduates whom are also Vietnam Veterans.

Languages

Intermediate Spanish I, Bowdoin, Eugenia Wheelwright
Students from both sections of Spanish 203 visited Mt. Ararat and Brunswick High Schools, where they met with advanced Spanish students for informal conversation groups. These sessions served as ice-breakers to prepare for the larger Spanish immersion day held at Bowdoin in October. On October 27th, 65 high school students came to Quinby and MacMillan Houses for games, skits, campus tours, a fabulous lunch and even a dance lesson.

Reading and Writing the New U.S. Latino Narrative, Middlebury, Gloria Gonzalez
New incorporation of service-learning; looking at migration, identity, and otherness

Spanish I, NH Tech, Mann
Students developed Spanish culture lessons for elementary school 3rd grade

FR 331 French, Norwich, Frances Chevalier
Students contributed to the Crown Point (NY) Historical Society's Festival of Nations. They performed French songs, judged an art and sculpting contest for middle schoolers, taught French lessons, created posters about the French history of the region, and gave tours of the Champlain Memorial and an attached sculpture by Rodin. Later in the semester, the same students researched domestic violence in France and translated a brochure for the Battered Women's Services and Shelter in Barre, VT.

Japanese, UVM, Kazuko Suzuki
Students completed various projects using the Japanese language for presentations, visits to schools, and collecting materials for an exchange trip.

Mathematics

Elements of Statistics, UVM, Sheila Weaver
Probability with Statistics, Neil Aguiar
Students completed survey work for local nonprofits.

Philosophy

PHI 3007 Topics in Social Political Philosophy: Peace, War, and Justice, Green Mountain, Heather Keith
Students engaged in three hours of outreach activity with area organizations involved with Peace, War, and Justice issues.

REL 2009 Stories of the Spirit, Green Mountain, Shirley Oskamp
Students provided storytelling programs for the general public at GMC sponsored events - notably on the College farm during the annual Harvest festival.

Physical Education

PED 3710 Teaching Team and Individual Motor Skills, Castleton State, Lisa Pleban
Students will create sports and games clinics for the Boys and Girls Club of Rutland County. They will teach speedball, flag football, and floor hockey to area youth. Students will be responsible for creating the lessons, conducting the clinics, and providing instruction and use of necessary equipment.

Methods of Teaching Elementary PE, Castleton State, Lisa Pleban
This course provides students a look at elementary and secondary physical education from the perspective of the teacher. The students are required to take part in teaching young students sports (soccer) and games at the Rutland Area Christian School.

PE 355A Coaching: Leadership in Sport, Norwich, Geoff Davison
PE 432A Organization and Administration of PE and Sport
Event management of intermediary Special Olympics events: publicity, hospitality, officiating, opening/closing/ awards ceremonies, community liaison, volunteer supervision, facilities operations, equipment handling

PE 406, Norwich, Sue Yesalonia
Students did individual SL projects ranging from organizing the fall VT Special Olympics Soccer tournament to working with the NU Wellness Committee to working with the Northfield Walk-to-School Program.

Political Science

Politics of Japan and China, UVM, Matthew Carlson
Students presented to students at local schools.

The Vermont Legislative Process, UVM, Anthony Gierzynski
Students completed legislative research for local organizations.

Psychology

Applied Behavior Analysis, Castleton State, Terry Bergen
Students are developing skills as Behavior Management Specialists by applying the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis to school related behavior problems in the Poultney School System. Last years projects included training in communication, leadership, character, and proper social interaction.

PSY 3130 Health Psychology, Castleton State College, Gail Regan
This course examines the biopsychosocial model of health and disease. Topics include: overviews of behavioral interventions and biofeedback, stress and stress management, pain and pain management, cancer, asthma, weight control and obesity, eating disorders and adherence to medical regimens. For the service-learning component, students will work with different age groups in various aspects of mental and physical health promotion for approximately 2 hours a week over 6 weeks. The three community sites are: 1) Castleton Village School 7th and 8th grade health classes; 2) Castleton Adult Community Center; 3) The Tapestry Program in Rutland.

Developmental Psychology, Johnson State, Gina Mireault
Supporting cognitive development through creativity in elementary school children. Students work as judges for the Vermont Odyssey of the Mind State tournament. In this role they work directly with and observe elementary school children as they solve highly novel, short-term problems. This will enhance their understanding of peer interactions and cognitive processes in middle childhood. The VT Odyssey program will benefit from the support of volunteers which are in short supply. Members of that group will travel to JSC to directly train students in class.

PSY 3080 Macro Perspectives in Human Services, Lyndon State, Patricia Shine, MSW
This course provides a systemic perspective on the human services field. Students engage in a service learning component in order to apply macro theory to practice in the field. In the fall of 2007, we partnered with Umbrella, the local domestic and sexual violence agency, to develop a teen-version of the interactive program “In Her Shoes”, which educates people about the experiences and challenges faced by victims of domestic violence. Students in the course worked with Umbrella staff to learn about the impact of dating violence on young people and then translate that knowledge into the development of an interactive program that Umbrella staff can bring into local schools and community groups.

Forensic Psychology, NH Tech, Sonia Grigorian
This project will address the needs of behaviorally and emotionally troubled youth in the community. Students will allocate 10 hours in facilities housing youth in need. Students will journal and reflect also in class.

Psychology, Southern Vermont, Bobbi Gabrenya
Students participated in a variety of experiences including serving as a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters and serving as a panel member hearing and deciding on cases at Center for Restorative Justice.

Introduction to Psychology, Vermont Tech, Nancy Murry
Asked students to do community outreach projects of their own. Within three days students were able to fill an entire van full of food, clothing, and Christmas decorations. In all, they were part of filling an entire eight-teen wheeler full of stoves, beds, refrigerators and other daily basics that went to hurricane victims in the southern states.

Recreation

REC 1000 Introduction to Recreation & Leisure Services, Green Mountain, William Hobbs
Students were required to do 6 hours of community service, preferrably with a recreation-focused organization. Some service included trail cleanup/construction, town event prepartaions, program assistance at local schools.

REC 3032, Dynamics of Marketing and Public Relations of Leisure Services, Green Mountain, William Hobbs
Students did market research, segmentation, and created print media resources for an on-campus outdoor programs provider.

REC 2031 Intro to Outdoor Rec Services, Green Mountain, Thayer Raines
Students contributed at least 8 hours each to the maintenance and preparation of 11 miles of the Catamount Ski Trail. Additional work done to digitize hard copy recreation resources for the VT Recreation and Parks Association.

REC 1021 Program Planning, Green Mountain, Tom Stuessy
After school and in school program presentation from two groups. One group worked with a local watershed organization to provide afterschool programming.

Sciences

Community Health Nursing, Castleton State, MaryAnn McDonuogh, Catherine Rawls, Jean Britt
Community Health Nursing instructs nursing students on how to approach health issues from the communities’ perspective rather then from the traditional hospital (or acute care) perspective. Several new community partners they are working with this year are Christ of King Elementary School, Sheldon Towers (home for the elderly), The Old Homestead’s Community Wellness Center, and Castleton Family Health.

AF 158 Aviation Extended Fundamentals of Flight, Daniel Webster College, Gerry Fairbairn
Students in this class designed lesson plans related to areas of their study which included meteorology and flight dynamics.

CHE 1021 General Chemistry I, Green Mountain, Susan Sutheimer
Students instructed and assisted elementary school students from two shcools concerning water sampling and analysis

CHE 2021 Organic Chemistry I, Green Mountain, Susan Sutheimer
Students collected, prepared and used natural dyes to color infant onsies to be donated to local childcare orgaznization

Medical Assistant 125 Clinical, NH Community Tech, Danae Colbath
Students developed and delivered workshops in health related topics as needed by local community resource center.

Anatomy and Physiology II, NH Tech, Vicki Abrams Motz
The Service-Learning component of this course involves the creation of a Medicinal Herb Walk on campus. Students plant the walkway and give tours during the Wellness Fair. The student will focus on the diet therapy topic of herbaism.

Pet connection, Rivier, Sue Cooke
Through instructing elementary school children about responsibility, care, and respect for animal, children improve relationship skills with one another.

Principles of Food Preparation, Southern Maine, Jennifer Francis
Students planned, prepared and delivered a meal to Preble St. Resource Center.

BI 1024 Biology II, UME, Dave Potter
Studentd participate in various bird monitoring and data collection activities (Christmas Bird Count, FeederWatch, Great Back Yard Bird Count and May Challenge); data is reported info to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.

Zoo Conservation, UVM, Patricia Erickson
Students created an exhibit for a local museum.

Health Law, Vermont Law School, Tracy Bach
irst year law students do service-learning projects for non-profit and government organizations in Vermont and New Hampshire focused on lead poisoning prevention.

Sociology

Class, Labor and Power, Bowdoin, Joe Bandy
Students conducted research to aid agencies with specific projects and developed presentations to raise awareness of local issues.

Poverty and Social Policy, Bowdoin, Joe Bandy
Sociology 320 is an advanced study of poverty in the U.S., its social causes, its effects on social life, and the social policies designed to address it. Working in three groups, students addressed the needs of low-income residents in Mid Coast Maine. For Tedford Housing, students conducted interviews with current residents of the Tedford shelter about the causes and effects of poverty in Mid Coast Maine, combining personal histories and social analysis to assist Tedford Housing.

Cultural Anthropology, Castleton State, Paul Derby
Students will be doing a Mapping Project of the campuses Recycling Operation. They will be working very closely with the Physical Plant and Aramark to create a better recycling plan for the college.

SWK 4010 Social Welfare Issues, Castleton State, Lillian Jackson
A critical theoretical approach to social policy development and analysis. Students examine the adequacy of current social welfare programs and services. Emphasis will be placed on value choices, politics, and praxis in the development and implementation of social welfare policy as a response to social problems in American society. The project is a continuation of last year's service learning project of offender re-entry in Rutland City. Students will organize and facilitate Rutland City Neighborhoods (4 quadrants) discussions on the issue of offender re-entry into the community, including the issue of transitional housing and services. RUN (Rutland United Neighborhoods) has the planning grant from Dept of Corrections for this issue/effort. Caprice Hover, former Director of Rutland County Housing Coalition, will work on behalf of RUN to organize this effort with neighborhoods, agencies, and CSC students. Students will create flyers to distribute door-to-door in the most populated sections of each quadrant. They will help develop the focus group/discussion questions and help facilitate the neighborhood meetings. They will compile the responses and present results at a citywide meeting and help compile responses at this meeting. They will also make oral and written presentations at various venues relevant to the issue.

Urban Sociology, Colby, Tom Morrione
An examination of urban social and cultural life in an historical and cross-cultural comparative perspective, with special emphasis on the United States. Students participate in a community-based service-learning project as part of the course requirement. The project focus brings the principles of planning and the insights of urban theory into focus on real-life issues.

Social Solutions, Johnson State, Eric Kreig
Students are required to volunteer about 25 hours of time to an organization that addresses a social problem that they are interested in. Students have volunteered at Meals on Wheels, various food shelves, Laraway School, VT Food Bank, battered women's shelters, and child development centers. They have also served as coaches for local sports teams. The instructor is working on involving students with local oral history projects.

Private Security, Andover, Jen Mandigo
Students collaborated with a small mall in the Lewiston area to complete a Security Survey. Student interviewed shop owners and shoppers to assess the sucurity issues at the mall.

Crisis Intervention, Andover, Peter Marr
The Crisis Intervention class worked with the City of Lewiston and Mayor Guay to hold a simulated hostage situation in order for the local agency to be more prepared. Students acted as the hostage takers, hostages, negotiators, and bystanders and worked with those in law enforcement to review and assess their performance in a hostage situation.

Poverty & Public Policy, Middlebury, Peggy Nelson
Worked with members of the Addison County Poverty Task Force researching and drafting brochures for public use (re. pregnant women & community profile information)

Ethics and the Professional Helper, NH Tech, Elizabeth Pedersen
A case related study of the ethical principles determining the standards of practice in the Human Service field. The student will become aware of the cultural diversity in Merrimack County, NH. The student will learn about and assist in meeting the needs of immigrants and people from other countries.

Effective Speaking, Southern Vermont, Lynda Sinkiewich
Intro. to Criminal Justice, John Damino
Interviewing and Counseling, David Rosenthal
Four groups volunteered in the community. Students held voter registration at the college for several days in October. They also worked with those who were already registered in encouraging them to get out and vote on election day. Students worked with the Warm the Children organization to recruit student volunteers to work with the organization in helping needy children get the clothing they need for the cold weather season. One group worked during the semester to help coordinate activities when the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization was on campus. Another group ran a food drive for a local food pantry, both with food collection bins and by holding a raffle.\

Revolution and the Call to Serve: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Community Service, Vermont Tech, Sarah Silbert
This course gave Vermont Technical students their first taste of service-learning and it was offered to the community at a 50% discount! The seven students enrolled did 175 hours of direct service in 15 weeks! The class also produced a community service website for the school!

Technology & Engineering

Graphic Design, NH Community Tech, Annette Cohen
Students designed graphic products for community partners.

Building Construction, NH Community Tech, Brian Hand
Students formed a service club and worked on projects for Habitat for Humanity

Advanced Video Production, NH Community Tech, Brian Chick
Students set-up and filmed an instructional video for an Automotive Tech course at the college.

Electronic Publishing 2, NH Community Tech, Melinda Huber
Computer Illustration 125, Joanne Jagodowski
Students produced original designs for local Animal Shelter publication needs

ME 487 Mechanical Engineering, Norwich, Carol Stephens
Students built hands-on science projects for second graders at the Northfield Elementary School around the theme of energy and motion.

CE 475 Civil Engineering, Norwich, John Stevens
Students planned for the design of water and wastewater systems, roads, boat launching access, and camping sites on 26 acres at Alburg Springs Scout reservation.

CE 480 Civil Engineering Senior Design, Norwich, John Stevens
Designing four wastewater disposal systems, developing a runoff control plan and designing a pedestrian bridge at Mt. Norris Boy Scout Reservation; Analyzing the existing water supply system and designing improvements so system will meet VT Water Supply standards; Designing multi-user wastewater disposal systems to replace existing single-user systems that are polluting Lake Champlain.

Theater Arts

THA 1041 Introduction to Theater Arts, Castleton State, Angela Brand
This course is designed as an introduction to the collaborative nature of theatre in addition to the analysis and criticism of dramatic literature. The imaginative process is stressed as history, playwriting, audience, acting, directing, producing and designing for both theatre and film are individually examined as elements of the collaborative process. Students from this class will perform self-written monologues for an audience of 40 Poultney High School students.

Drama and Dance: Children's Theater: Millions of Cats, Colby, Tina Wentzel
The adaptation of the classic children's book, Millions of Cats, into a theater format. During the fall, a weekly seminar and rehearsals researching, exploring, and experimenting with how the performer translates prose/poetry into a dramatic form for the stage. In January, approximately 22 performances for children of central Maine of a fully mounted production of the children's classic tale created during the fall.

Intro. to Drama, Unity, Pat Clark
Introductory theater class that integrates service learning through dramatization of children's books and theatrical performance in elementary schools.

Contact Cheryl Whitney Lower with any questions about these programs at 802-443-2507 or clower@middlebury.edu