Instructor Name: Keith L. Kaufman, Ph.D.
CRN: 63524
Note: This is a two-term Capstone (winter and spring terms) and has either a three or four credits per term option.
This course focuses on the development of consultation skills applicable for use with a broad range of organizations and utilizes a Community Psychology perspective. Students will join one of several available consultation teams, each working collaboratively with a particular community partner on a project to address a critical organizational need. Community partners...
Spring 2023Spring 2024
Homelessness Mental Health Disabilities Community Health public health Consultation Program Development Needs Assessment Program Evaluation Sexual Violence Prevention Youth Development LGBTQ+ Adaptive Sports
Instructor Name: Brenna Wood, Shay Snyder, Leann Horrocks, Nathalie Wollmann, Joe Wightman
CRN: 63506, 63507, 63508, 63509, 80967, 80918, 80968, 80919, 80969, 80907, 80922, 80970
An application is required prior to registration. See our website for more information or to apply: https://www.pdx.edu/education/kiwanis
Since 1972, PSU has teamed up with Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp (MHKC), a nonprofit organization, to help make camp activities accessible to kids and adults with developmental disabilities. In 1995, PSU’s Special Education program and University Studies department partnered with the camp to create one of PSU’s very first capstone courses. Since then,...
Spring 2024Summer 2024
Education-Youth Disabilities Community Health
Instructor Name: Cindy Koonz
CRN: 63528, 80901
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 2021Fall 2022Fall 2023Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2024Summer 2022Summer 2023Summer 2024Winter 2022Winter 2023Winter 2024
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
Instructor Name: Lindsey Schuhmacher
CRN: 63503, 80926, 80928
Welcome to "Embracing Size Diversity!" This course focuses on weight stigma as a social and cultural construction, examining the relationship between discrimination caused by body size and gender, race, ability, and social class. Students use social justice and healthcare perspectives to question weight bias and explore ways in which we can resist sizeism individually and collectively. Emphasis is placed on the Health at Every Size™ (HAES) approach to wellness as well as advocating for size...
Fall 2021Fall 2022Fall 2023Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2024Summer 2021Summer 2022Summer 2023Summer 2024Winter 2021Winter 2022Winter 2023Winter 2024
Community Health social justice Activism Gender social movements Online or Hybrid Courses Hybrid or Fully online social change Sociology Disabilities
Instructor Name: Alissa Leavitt
CRN: 64816, 63951, 44038
Pathways to Health Equity (Formerly called Health Professionals as Agents of Change)
Influences such as income, living conditions, education, infrastructure, healthcare, social capital, public policy, stress, gender, and race are widely recognized to effect health outcomes. However, the connection between research and practice is sometimes not as well developed or fully articulated.
Students will have the opportunity to work with practitioners to engage the community, including...
Winter 2023
Community Health Population-based health healthcare health equity behavioral health trauma-informed care environmental health community engagement Disabilities Education security; hunger; sustainability; food justice; food equity LGBTQ social work Poverty Awareness Anti-Racism Child and Family Age-friendly Communities College campus Research Refugees physical activity social determinants of health public health social change counseling school-based health maternal & child health oral health community organizing social connections community outreach social isolation faith-based health care