UMM Service-Learning Classes
Spring 2008

The following notation indicates:
SLR = service learning is required
SLO = service learning is optional but encouraged in place of another assignment equal in academic rigor and time commitment.

ArtS 1050: Beginning Ceramics
Faculty: Kevin Flicker
Partners: PRCA, Someplace Safe, Stevens County Food Shelf
Project: Students will create cups and bowls that will be used at a fundraising soup dinner with the proceeds going to Someplace Safe and the Food Shelf.

ArtS 2050: Advanced Ceramics
Faculty: Kevin Flicker
Partners: PRCA, Someplace Safe, Stevens County Food Shelf
Project: Students will create cups and bowls that will be used at a fundraising soup dinner with the proceeds going to Someplace Safe and the Food Shelf.

CSCI 4453 Systems:Database Systems, SLR
Faculty: Jinzhu Gao
Partner: TBD
Project: Students will construct databases for local non-profits and/or businesses.

Economics 3501: Introduction to Econometrics, SLR
Faculty: Pareena Lawrence
Partners: various local agencies
Project: Students will create a survey regarding the current conservation measures being utilized by Morris residents.

Ed 1020: English in the American University, SLR
Faculty: Nancy Pederson
Partner: MAES
Projects: Students will participate in an intercultural exchange with Morris Area Elementary School fifth graders.

English 1002: Fundamentals of Writing II, SLR
Faculty: Argie Manolis
Partner: West Wind Village
Project: Students will plan and implement weekly activities for elders living in a long-tem care facility and write a series of reflective and analytic essays about the experience.

Eng 2993: Directed Study: Found Poetry and Service Learning, SLR
Faculty: Argie Manolis
Project: Students will facilitate groups of first-year students, assisting in planning and implementing weekly activities for elders at a long-term care facility. They will write found poems from the elders' words and create books of poetry and reflections for each elder and family.

IS 1993: Service-Learning Practicum
Faculty: Argie Manolis
Partner: MASD Afterschool Program/TREC
Project: This is a one credit class that is offered in conjunction with Introduction to Sociology. Students act as tutors in the TREC program, plan activities and reflect on their involvement in the program and the connections to Sociology.

IS 3993: Service-Learning Practicum
Faculty: Argie Manolis
Partner: Stevens Community Humane Society
Project: One student is reading about fundraising and recruiting volunteers for non-profits and working on fundraising/recruiting projects for the Stevens Community Humane Society.

IS 4894 Global Issues Honors Consortium: Research and Writing Tutorial
Faculty: Various
Partners: Native Harvest, SCMC, MAES, UMM Admissions
Project: Students in this course will complete primary and secondary research and write a final report for community agencies that requested community-based research projects. These projects are continuations of projects begun in IS 3213H: The Theory and Practice of Community-Based Learning.

MGMT 3201: Marketing Principles and Strategies
Faculty: Tom Gausman
Partner: Potential Morris business
Project: Students will work with an area business on a marketing plan.

Theater 2111: Creative Drama with Children, SLR
Faculty: Deidre Onishi
Partners: Area elementary schools
Project: Students plan and implement a Read-a-Thon during Dr. Seuss week involving area school children.