Instructor Name: Erik Bodegom, Drake Mitchell (Winter 2022)
CRN: 64794
IMPORTANT: This Capstone course will not be available for the 2020-2021 academic year.
This Capstone takes place over the winter and spring terms. Students enrolled in Research Experience for Science Majors will develop an understanding and appreciation for scientific, societal, economic, political, and ethical dimensions of science. This will be accomplished through group work, where a selection of readings will be the springboard for presentations and discussions. Further work is...
Spring 2020Spring 2022Winter 2020Winter 2022
Business-Engineering-Technology Research Science
Instructor Name: Sarah A. Bunton, PhD
CRN: 63933
Cultivating Leadership Capacity and Promoting Educational Equity
This interactive course explores the conceptual intersections of educational equity, social responsibility, and the development of leadership capacity. Using a tiered leadership model as a framework, and with a foundation emphasizing education as a key influence on an individual’s social and economic future and opportunities, this class partners with Portland Public Schools (PPS). Throughout the term, PSU students have...
Spring 2020Spring 2021Spring 2022
educational equity Education-Youth Leadership social change
Instructor Name: Eva Thanheiser
CRN: 63760
We will explore how mathematics can be used to understand, explore, and investigate racial and social injustices in the United States. We live in a society where mathematics is at the foundation of many injustices. In " The Mathematics of Racism," you will use mathematics to explore and examine various topics that allow us to understand systemic racism in the United States. Each week we will examine either a current topic or one or more of the following topics in depth:
1. The...
Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2020
Education-Youth Community Health
Instructor Name: Ann McClanan
CRN: 63502
The Medieval Portland capstone is a great fit if you love research, for in this class each student undertakes--with mentoring from the Professor--an individual research project about either a locally housed medieval object or a Portland building with influence from medieval architecture. Students from many different majors have done well in the capstone, as long as they work hard doing the detective work involved in original research. The community partner varies depending on the term, but...
Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2024Spring 2020
Research Arts Hybrid or Fully online Online or Hybrid Courses
Instructor Name: Debra Lindberg
CRN: 63980
Faculty Bio
Spring 2020Spring 2021Spring 2022
Instructor Name: Laura Mulas
CRN: 63539
This capstone is designed to provide an opportunity to learn about Spanish culture and society by means of synchronous and asynchronous discussion group forums between American and Spanish middle and high school students. The communities of students will be from: Portland, Oregon, various schools in Washington state and Zamora, Spain. These forums will be between paired classes (one USA and one Spanish) of similar grade and language level and will be facilitated and monitored by both teachers...
Spring 2022Spring 2024Fall 2019Summer 2020Winter 2020Spring 2020
Education - Youth Global Perspectives Online or Hybrid Courses Education International Capstones International Relations social justice
Instructor Name: Michelle Swinehart
This Capstone partners with two schools in Oregon - Walt Morey Middle School in the Reynolds School District and Wilson River School in Tillamook, Oregon. PSU students will provide creative mentoring to students to help them express themselves through storytelling. The course will examine issues of social justice; power and privilege in our society, community and classrooms; holistic learning; the power of empathy and being vulnerable in a leadership role; and what creates self-advocacy. PSU...
Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2020
Education - Youth Youth education and social justice
Instructor Name: Carmen Denison, and Guest Faculty: Keela Johnson
CRN: 64796
This six credit course combines applied critical race theory, historical and contemporary Black Liberation narratives, and community-based learning to address pressing social issues affecting Black communities across the state of Oregon. Using critical dialogic pedagogy, the Black Civil Rights/Black Liberation class seeks to create collaborative learning spaces where students and Black-led initiatives can engage in prescient conversations about race and racism. The capstone class contributes...
Spring 2020Spring 2022Winter 2021Winter 2022
Instructor Name: Neera Malhotra
CRN: 81601
Trauma often leads to contemplative dissociation- a detachment from the body and the mind. Through a social justice framework, together we will explore trauma and healing using Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB). IPNB is relational neuroscience that offers kinder, broader wisdom to understand how we are hurt and how we heal within relationships (including the relationship with the self). In this class, you will learn about trauma, including internalized oppression, grief, and suffering; healing...
Spring 2020Spring 2021Spring 2022Summer 2021Summer 2022
trauma-healing; contemplative practices; interpersonal neurobiology; social justice
Instructor Name: Annie Knepler
CRN: 63518
This Capstone will partner with the Learning Gardens Laboratory (LGL), a 12-acre garden education site on Portland’s southeast side. Students work collaboratively to gather stories of community gardeners, teachers, and community partners who regularly gather at LGL to learn and farm. Capstone students will gain skills in interviewing, storytelling, and using narrative as a means for social change, in addition to learning about sustainable food systems and the impact of learning gardens.
Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2024Spring 2020
Community Health Sustainability Education social justice Ecology Garden-based learning food
Instructor Name: Amy Collins
CRN: 63775
Violence Prevention
This course will provide students with the opportunity to explore the primary prevention of interpersonal violence and other forms of systemic harm. Essential to the praxis of the course is a social justice framework that scrutinizes the impact of socialization on the creation of judgments and prejudices that lead to inequities in experiences of violence. Success in this work requires innovative, integrated approaches that leverage partnerships to drive structural, societal...
Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2020