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...
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Research Disabilities Community Health Hybrid or Fully online Online or Hybrid Courses
Instructor Name: Kimberly Mukobi
CRN: 63988, 81183, 81178
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: Andy Reed
CRN: 64006, 81193
The class will work alongside The Water Project, a non-profit that is focused on providing clean water to communities in Africa. Students will address needs affecting the field of water scarcity. Students may participate in the following forms of service-learning, which depends solely on the priorities of the non-profit in any given term:
• Research cultural practices and country dynamics to assist NGOs transition into new markets;
• Provide critical feedback to...
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Online or Hybrid Courses Hybrid or Fully online
Instructor Name: Lindsey Schuhmacher
CRN: 64004, 81184, 81186
Welcome to EveryBody Matters: Embracing Size Diversity! This course focuses on fatness as a social and cultural construction, examining the relationship between discrimination caused by body size and gender, race, and social class. Students will use social justice and healthcare perspectives to question weight bias and explore ways in which the fat community and its supporters resist sizeism.
A 2010 study from Yale University shows that body size discrimination occurs at the same rate as...
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Community Health social justice Activism Gender social movements Online or Hybrid Courses Hybrid or Fully online
Instructor Name: Laura Mulas
CRN: 63992, 81185
Global citizenship is of utmost importance as our societies are increasingly becoming more connected through media and technology. There is a growing disparity in the American school system that allows only the privileged students to participate in meaningful and engaging cultural learning. Schools that receive funding and support are able to facilitate cultural exchanges in person for students and faculty, while the majority of students in the public system receive little financial support and...
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Education - Youth Hybrid or Fully online Online or Hybrid Courses