Instructor Name: Michelle Culley
CRN: 63800
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Students should sign up for a tutoring opportunity via the link at the top of the page and then contact Michelle Culley, mculley@pdx.edu, immediately after registration.
Capstone students will work with adult English as Second Language learners for 2.5 to three hours a week at local community colleges (locations and times vary). Capstone students must be proficient speakers of English but are not required to be native English speakers. In...
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Education- Adult
Instructor Name: Mitch Cruzan
CRN: 81160, 81210
The objectives of Research and Society are: Community service with an emphasis on the sciences and your research interests; Learning to communicate scientific material in various media to professional and lay audiences; Higher level thinking about questions about scientific processes & ethics—synthesizing knowledge; and, Preparation to complete undergrad work and enter grad school and the workforce.
Summer 2019Summer 2020Summer 2021
Business-Engineering-Technology Community Health Research Science
Instructor Name: Heather Petzold
CRN: 63789
Being an Effective Change Agent in Portland This course is for students interested in being effective change agents for the public good. Each student (individually or with others) will take the initiative before the Capstone begins to arrange a project with a community organization. This project may be an existing relationship or one sought for the purpose of this class. A minimum of three working hours per week with the organization is required. During the course, students will be supported ...
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Community Health Education-Youth Research
Instructor Name: Molly Gray
CRN: 63788
It is estimated that 1 in 10 individuals identify as a sexual minority. Often an already challenging stage in identity development, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & questioning (LGBTQ) youth face a set of issues unique to their daily lives. We examine the paths sexual and gender minority youth navigate in society, exploring such questions as: What challenges do LGBTQ youth encounter? How do they cope, survive, find understanding & celebrate themselves amidst homophobia and...
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Research Education-Youth
Instructor Name: Anmarie Trimble
CRN: 63783, 81198
In this Capstone we partner with the Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) through hands-on community-based service. Students will support youth programming in NAYA's after-school Learning Center (k-8) or College & Career Center (ages 14-21) and/ or support food sovereignty in NAYA's food and healing gardens. Students taking this course receive dual credit, fulfilling both their Senior Capstone requirement, and INS major/minor credit.
To support our work as allies to the...
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Education Education-Youth social work tutoring Mentoring social justice native american indigenous family NAYA trauma-informed trauma garden healing
Instructor Name: Deborah Arthur, Matthew Ross (Winter, Spring 2022)
CRN: 63765
This Capstone partners with the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, Juvenile Services Division. Students work together to facilitate a writing/art workshop in juvenile detention. Through your work in the detention facility, as well as through supportive academic activities, you will have the opportunity to deeply explore current issues in juvenile justice. Successful background checks and Department approval are required for participation in this Capstone; prior to...
Fall 2019Fall 2020Fall 2021Fall 2022Spring 2018Spring 2019Spring 2020Spring 2022Spring 2023Summer 2018Summer 2019Summer 2020Summer 2021Summer 2022Winter 2021Winter 2022Winter 2023
Education-Youth Criminal & Juvenile Justice Community Health
Instructor Name: Robert Bremmer
CRN: 63811, 63812
Community issues and needs are addressed by developing online media. Students form teams, developing web pages, videos and other digital media to assist community partners achieve their goals, and to address community needs.
We are fully online, students may be remote anywhere in the world with good internet connection. Expect considerable communication between students in groups; the course is split between group work and individual work You must communicate and work as part of a...
Fall 2020Fall 2021Fall 2022Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Summer 2020Summer 2021Summer 2022Winter 2021Winter 2022Winter 2023
Online Course Business-Engineering-Technology-Visual Design Sustainability Community Health Social Inequity Solutions
Instructor Name: Gabe Sheoships
CRN: 81166, 14129
Students will participate in interpretive programs facilitated within the Tryon Creek State Natural Area.
It is important to ground ourselves and acknowledge the people whose land we are utilizing; the
Clackamas Chinook, the Wasco-Wishram, the Willamette Tumwater, the Multnomah, and other
Chinookan peoples, as well as the Tualatin Kalapuya, the Cayuse, the Molalla and other tribes and bands
of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. It is important to acknowledge the original inhabitants of the...
Fall 2019Fall 2020Spring 2020Summer 2019Summer 2020
Education-Youth Sustainability Community Health Science Culture
Instructor Name: Heather Petzold
CRN: 63792
This course focuses on the importance of service learning in our community. As a class, we will have the opportunity to discover, evaluate, and reflect on the needs of our community by creating and facilitating educational workshops, mentoring, and exploring fundraising opportunities for the Boys and Girls Club. Students will learn respect for themselves and others as part of a community and will promote teamwork, leadership and problem-solving skills. Community issues to be addressed include:...
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Research Education-Youth
Instructor Name: Sally Eck
CRN: 63782
Women’s Oral Narratives In this course, we will be working with our community partner, the local non-profit organization; the IPRC, Independent Publishing Resource Center. Our project is to coordinate a series of *rap sessions* with local teen girls about current issues in their lives. We will use these group conversations to encourage the girls to become a part of our ZINE project - where they will write, edit, and publish a grassroots, mini-magazine with our class. In preparation for this...
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Education-Youth
Instructor Name: Tracy Dillon
CRN: 81141, 81188
A grant is a proposal that seeks funds to solve a problem and normally is directed by a nonprofit organization [IRS 501(c)(3) designation] to a federal, state, or local government agency, a foundation, or a corporation.
Each term, partners for this capstone change. You will be writing on behalf of a nonprofit that promotes or engages in sustainability in some way. Specifics about these partners and their funding needs are provided in the Course Learning Modules on the Home Page. Read the...
Summer 2019Summer 2020Summer 2021Winter 2020
Sustainability Grantwriting
Instructor Name: Sam Gioia
CRN: 81253
Course Description:
Middle School Equity & Inclusion is a hybridized capstone offered each Summer. Through text and community engagement PSU students will observe and reflect on race, language, and class privilege as they are encountered by immigrant children and their families.
Online reading and discussion will orient students to the context of language, culture, and English language learning and migrant education. The classroom discussion will explore the role of race in each of our...
Summer 2019Summer 2020Summer 2021Summer 2022
Global Perspectives Education-Youth Community Health
Instructor Name: Cindy Koonz
CRN: 63808
Linking the Generations, Communication, Aging and Society Students will engage with older adults to complete a variety of life history projects. Students will address their assumptions and stereotypes toward the aging population and will reflect upon personal barriers and successes in the intergenerational communication process. Communication issues will be addressed in the areas of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intercultural communication. In addition to the community work, the course...
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Research Disabilities Community Health Hybrid or Fully online Online or Hybrid Courses
Instructor Name: Catherine Howells
CRN: 63786
Portland's Water: History and Challenges. This course is designed to give students an opportunity to learn about tap water and create community outreach products for the Portland Water Bureau. Our community partner for this class is the Portland Water Bureau. This class will focus on the Bull Run watershed (the source of Portland's drinking water) and the work of the Portland Water Bureau -- how they deliver our water to our taps. We will learn about the history of the water system, the...
Fall 2019Fall 2020Fall 2021Fall 2022Spring 2020Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Summer 2019Summer 2020Summer 2021Summer 2022Winter 2020Winter 2021Winter 2022Winter 2023
Sustainability Research Community Health Business-Engineering-Technology
Instructor Name: Conrad Schumacher
CRN: 63802
Teaching Art and Social Change The working Thesis for this class is that for Art, or indeed anything/anyone, to effect change in a society the work/ideas must be palatable to the majority, real and tangible in terms of outcomes and sustainable over time. We never get far when we try to change using hate, anger, force or such "clubs."
This course is open to anyone intrigued with the questions raised by public Art (and possibilities of Art) in our society. This capstone should be of particular...
Spring 2020Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Summer 2019Summer 2020Summer 2021Winter 2020Winter 2021Winter 2022Winter 2023
Community Health Arts
Instructor Name: Molly Gray
CRN: 81153, 81202
The Rock & Roll Camp for Girls is a local non-profit organization that works to buld girls' self-esteem through musical & performance mentorshp as well as empowers/prepares young women of diverse backgrounds for leadership roles within their communities. Students in this Capstone will examine contemporary social issues related to the lives of girls today, as well as participate in Rock Camp programming & the creation of a final communication plan to secure on-going community...
Summer 2019Summer 2020Summer 2021
Education-Youth
Instructor Name: Kimberly Mukobi
CRN: 44072
Grant Writing for Animals: Shelter Pets
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Approximately 2.7 million healthy, adoptable cats and dogs - about one every 11 seconds - are euthanized in U.S. shelters each year. This class partners with a local no-kill animal shelter to further its goals of eliminating the unnecessary euthanasia of healthy or treatable companion animals in the community and finding them permanent, loving homes.
Students will participate in the various aspects of...
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Animals Shelter Pets Pets Grant Writing Online or Hybrid Courses Grantwriting Hybrid or Fully online
Instructor Name: Zapoura Newton-Calvert
CRN: 81659
The Summer Youth Enrichment Capstone has spent the last three summers working with programs designed to help bridge the summer achievement gap. Since the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, the "achievement gap" has been at the forefront of discussions about school equity. A significant contributor to the achievement gap is the summer learning gap. According to researchers on the subject, “Achievement gaps by family socioeconomic status (SES) and race/ethnicity widen...
Summer 2020
Education-Youth
Instructor Name: Kristin Teigen
CRN: 63793
This Capstone partners with the Community Alliance of Tenants, Taking Ownership PDX and the Urban League. Students will learn the history of BIPOC communities in Oregon while working with our partners to fight racism, white supremacy and to create a different future for Oregon. Students in this course will learn how to write grants, work directly with organizations centering BIPOC homeowners and tenants and, if they choose, use their own skills and talents to support these organizations. All of...
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Anti-Racism Grantwriting Education Activism Leadership
Instructor Name: Deborah Smith Arthur
CRN: 81143, 81190
This course asks each participant to examine and discuss their own spiritual beliefs, and use that reflection as a spring board for social justice activism on an issue of their choosing. All students are welcome - those with a solid faith tradition, and those with none - and anywhere in between. Each student will develop their own partnership; each partnership and project must be approved by the Instructor.
Students will have the opportunity to create meaningful relationships with their chosen...
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