Instructor Name: Eric Mankowski
CRN: 44282
(Note: This is a two term Capstone (winter and spring), and is three credits per term.
This course focuses on applications of basic psychological knowledge and methods to community problems. Students join a work team providing consultation to a community organization or agency. Students have an opportunity to choose from a number of field projects in cooperation with community agencies engaged in social service in the fields of health, education, corrections, welfare, and others. Projects...
Spring 2020Winter 2020Winter 2021
Homelessness Mental Health Disabilities Community Health
Instructor Name: Colleen Kaleda
Street Roots: Exploring Issues of Homelessness In this Capstone students explore and expose various issues surrounding poverty and homelessness through direct contact with non-profits, businesses, government and the homeless community. Students will report and write stories, complete with original photography, for publication in Street Roots, Portland's homeless newspaper. Students will learn and put into practice the basics of journalistic research, interviewing, writing, photography, and...
Disabilities Criminal & Juvenile Justice Business-Engineering-Technology
Instructor Name: Brenna K. Wood (Spring Term), Leann Horrocks (Summer Term), TBA (Summer Term)
Website for more information: https://www.pdx.edu/education/kiwanis
Through coursework using a social justice framework, students will broaden their understanding of the lived experience of persons with disabilities by exploring histories, personal stories, and social movements. Students will explore the intersection of that lived experience and society (attitudes, assumptions, accessibility, inequity, politics, culture, services, inclusion/exclusion). Further, students will learn how the...
Spring 2021Summer 2021
Education-Youth Disabilities Community Health
Instructor Name: Judith Patton
The Portland Actor's Ensemble Grant Writing Project Students in this Capstone course partner with the Portland Actors Ensemble (http://www.portlandactors.com/). Class uses an experiential approach: that is, students learn to write compelling grant proposals by engaging in the process of writing actual proposals to be used by PAE in its pursuit of funding.
The objectives of this Capstone address both course content and the University Studies goals of communication, critical thinking,...
Grantwriting Education-Youth Disabilities Arts
Instructor Name: Cindy Koonz
CRN: 63991, 81189
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...
Fall 2019Fall 2020Spring 2018Spring 2019Spring 2020Spring 2021Summer 2018Summer 2019Summer 2020Summer 2021Winter 2021
Research Disabilities Community Health Hybrid or Fully online Online or Hybrid Courses
Instructor Name: Dr. Margaret B. Neal
For more information, contact Iris Wernher (Assistant Program Coordinator): Wernher@pdx.edu
The program connects classroom learning on the topics of gerontology, community development, cross-cultural communication, and public health with collaborative community service in Nicaragua. The spring-term course builds on student knowledge and skills in order to prepare teams of students to successfully complete projects in the field while traveling in Nicaragua. Students will work with each other...
Research Disabilities Community Health Global Perspectives International Capstones