List of Oberlin College Community Based Learning Courses
AAST 281 Practicum in Tutoring
Description: First and Second Semester. Students give their time in local public school classrooms, homes, churches, and libraries to students in need of individual educational attention. Students learn valuable lessons about different methods of tutoring and develop personal relationships with children of this community.
Contact: Mr. Booker Peek / Booker.Peek@oberlin.edu
ARTS 041 Art and the Environment
Description: First Semester. Students will be introduced to a number of artists whose ideas and work are influenced by their interest and concern for the environment, and will learn to work in two and three dimensions using found, recycled and borrowed materials.
Contact: Ms. Nanette Yannuzzi-Macias / Nanette.Yannuzzi@oberlin.edu
CAST 301 Situated Research Practicum
Description: First Semester. Taken together, CAST 300 (the classroom portion of the Situated Research Practicum)and 301 (the fieldwork portion) combine classroom-based discussion of methodologies and theory with field research drawn from weekly fieldwork in an internship or placement of the student’s choice.
Contact: Ms. Meredith Raimondo / Meredith.Raimondo@oberlin.edu
CRWR 485 Practicum in Creative Writing
Description: First and Second Semesters. This course is open to students who are interested in acquiring practical, writing-related skills by working on a literary journal, organizing a reading series, editing a student anthology, assisting with introductory Creative Writing courses, organizing community- or campus-based workshops, helping out with the Creative Writing Student Co-op, or working on other program approved projects. Students can earn a maximum of three (four) credit hours toward the major. Consent of instructor required.
Contact: Ms. Sylvia Watanabe / Sylvia.Watanabe@oberlin.edu
EDUA 010 Spanish Teaching Practicum
Description: First and Second Semesters. Students work as Spanish instructors at the local elementary schools with the SITES (Spanish in the Elementary Schools) program. Attendance of class meetings covering pedagogical and professional issues is required for first semester of enrollment. Preference will be given to students who have at least intermediate Spanish proficiency and/or have studied in a Spanish-speaking country. Consent of instructor required.
Contact: Ms. Kim Tungseth-Faber / Kim.Faber@oberlin.edu
ENVS 101 Environment and Society
Description: First and Second Semester. Provides an introduction to social, economic, technological, and political aspects of environmental problems with emphasis on major theorists and ideas that have influenced the environmental movement. (Possible community-based learning option.)
Contact: Ms. Janet Fiskio, Mr. Rumi Shammin
ENVS 208 Environmental Policy
Description: First and Second Semesters. Humans modify natural and built environments. Environmental policy is the attempt to regulate the consequences and scope of such changes. Our focus will be on the intersections among political and economic power, environmental science and the public interest in the United States.
Enrollment Limit: 25. Note: Restricted to ENVS and POLT majors.
Contact: Ms. Crystal Fortwangler / Crystal.Fortwangler@oberlin.edu
ENVS 322 Energy and Society
Description: Energy issues are often characterized as problems we can 'supply' our way out of by changing the resources we rely on. Less frequently, energy issues are treated as a problem of consumption. This course adopts a sociotechnical perspective, regarding energy as an issue shaped by both technical factors and social patterns. The first part of this course explores physical, political, and economic aspects of energy supply through the examination of different energy sources (biomass, fossil fuels, electricity, renewables, nuclear). The second part of the course addresses social and political aspects of energy consumption in the industrial, commercial, residential and transportation sectors. Enrollment Limit: 25. Prerequisite: ENVS 101.
Contact: Mr. Rumi Shammin / Rumi.Shammin@oberlin.edu
ENVS 490 Introduction to the Black River Watershed
Description: First Semester. This course is an interdisciplinary examination of the local Black River Watershed, through a combination of lectures, field trips, and discussions. Principles of place-based, interdisciplinary watershed education will be introduced, and students will work with a teacher in the local public schools. Note: This course is required for enrollment in ENVS 491, Practicum in Environmental Education
(Spring 2010). Consent of instructor required.
Contact: Cheryl Wolfe-Craigin / Cheryl.Wolfe@oberlin.edu
FYSP 165 Feeding the World
Description: First Semester. This course examines issues of population and food production. World population structure, the history of agriculture, global impacts of the green revolution, and genetically modified foods will be discussed. The intent of the class is to raise profound issues that we will study while practicing skills associated with research including interpreting and manipulating data.
Contact: Ms. Marta Laskowski / Marta.Laskowski@oberlin.edu
PSYC 501 Practicum in Child Developmental Disorders
Description: First and Second Semesters. Students in this course go to Murray Ridge School, a school in Elyria, OH for students with developmental disorders, once or twice a week for one hour. Oberlin students work in classrooms to help Murray Ridge students recognize objects, learn numbers and letters, and create relationships to lead a better understanding of developmental disorders and their challenges. Readings on the etiology and treatment of developmental disorders will supplement the experiential component.
Contact: Ms. Karen Sutton / Karen.Sutton@oberlin.edu
RHET 401 Teaching and Tutoring Writing Across the Disciplines
Description: Students in this course work with other students – either at the College or other community members through the Community-Based Writing Program – to tutor them in writing. Students taking this course will learn theories of tutoring while having the ability to put them into practice by gaining direct experience as tutors and teachers.
Contact: Mr. Len Podis / Len.Podis@oberlin.edu
MUED 400 Student Teaching and Seminar
Description: First Semester. Students are given the tools and resources needed for teaching and organizing a middle or high school music class. Students learn the basics of operating in an education system by working in the Oberlin-area public schools.
Contact: Ms. Peggy Bennett / Peggy.Bennett@oberlin.edu
Know of any other course that need to be added to this list? Want to work with on of your favorite faculty members to create a NEW community based learning course? Have any questions? Please contact Beth Blissman, Director, Bonner Center for Service and Learning (BCSL), at beth.blissman@oberlin.edu.
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