Instructor Name: Deborah Rutt
CRN: 63531, 80910
Drawing on personal narratives, political theory, sociological texts, and film, this course will offer an introduction to the experience of incarceration for women, and engage students in collaborative work in support of PSU’s Higher Education in Prison Program and Project Rebound
Fall 2021Fall 2022Fall 2023Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2024Summer 2021Summer 2022Summer 2023Summer 2024Winter 2021Winter 2022Winter 2023Winter 2024
Criminal & Juvenile Justice
Instructor Name: Shevawn Armstrong
CRN: 63501, 80929
This course will explore the concepts of sustainability, growing food, and personal connection to land/nature through community engagement with the PSU Learning Gardens Lab (LGL). This course focuses on community building, group discussion, and personal reflection and will involve working on projects that support the mission of LGL. For Spring Term 2022, this course will include face-to-face meetings at LGL (depending on PSU and Oregon's Covid policies) and Zoom meetings. LGL is located at 6745...
Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2024Summer 2024Winter 2021
Learning Gardens Learning Garden Garden-based learning Gardens
Instructor Name: Zapoura Newton-Calvert
CRN: 80902
The Black Lives Matter at School week of action and call to anti-racist curriculum year round was initiated by Seattle educators in 2016 in response to bomb threats by white supremacists toward students and teachers wearing Black Lives Matter/We Stand Together t-shirts at John Muir Elementary School. Inequity in curriculum, curricular violence, bias in textbooks, lack of access to diverse authors and representation in school libraries all contribute to the “achievement gaps” that both federal...
Fall 2022Fall 2023Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Summer 2024Winter 2021Winter 2022Winter 2024
Instructor Name: Deborah Burke
This Capstone course introduces oral history as a method for documenting, preserving, and amplifying the diverse histories and voices of Portland’s LGBTQ+ communities. Our community partner for this course is the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN).
Through listening to interviews with queer elders and exploring related primary source materials, we will learn about local queer history. Topics will include political activism of the 1970s, the anti-gay backlash and ballot...
Fall 2021Fall 2022Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Summer 2021Summer 2022Summer 2023Summer 2024Winter 2021Winter 2022Winter 2023
LGBTQ
Instructor Name: Megan Kupko
CRN: 80921
This course will explore the concepts of sustainability, growing food, and personal connection to land/nature through community engagement with the PSU Learning Gardens Lab (LGL). This course focuses on community building, group discussion, and personal reflection and will involve working on projects that support the mission of LGL. LGL is located in SE Portland at 6745 SE 60th Ave, Portland, OR 97206.
Spring 2021Summer 2022Summer 2023Summer 2024
Garden-based learning Learning Gardens Learning Garden Sustainability community engagement
Instructor Name: Shevawn Armstrong
CRN: 63526, 80915
This Capstone explores visions for a just food system that empowers all community members to have equitable access to healthful, nutritious and culturally appropriate foods, information and education about food systems, and land to grow without exploitation, and with a commitment to sustainability. Students will engage directly with growing food, alongside readings, group discussions, group activities, and Capstone team project work, to investigate the concepts of sustainability, systems-...
Spring 2024Summer 2023Summer 2024
food; food insecurity; hunger; sustainability; food justice; food equity