Service-learning Course List
Service-learning Course List, Spring 2008
Note: This list last updated 3-20-08.
Public Service Component in the Course
Focus on Public Service
Preparation for Public Service
Departmental Internships
Courses on Non-Profit Organizations [Please note: This list is not specific to Spring 2008; it is a list of all courses offered on this topic.]
Public Service Component in the Course
These courses feature a service project as a course requirement.
Anthropological Sciences (ANTHSCI) 171 Aging: From Biology to Social Policy, 5 units (Barnett).
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) 177S/277S Design for a Sustainable World, 2 or 4 units (Staff).
Computer Science (CS) 194 Software Project, 3 units (Plummer).
Earth Systems (EARTHSYS) 210 Senior Seminar in Earth Systems, 4 units (Kennedy).
Economics (ECON) 341 Public Economics and Environmental Economics Seminar, 1-10 units, graduate students only.(Boskin, Shoven).
Education (EDUC) 243 Writing Across Languages and Cultures: Research in Writing and Writing Instruction, 3-4 units (Ball).
Education (EDUC)/Sociology (SOC) 374C Research Workshop: Philanthropy and Civil Society, 1-3 units (Powell).
Graduate School of Business (GSBGEN) 370 Service Learning Project, 2 units (Staff).
Human Biology (HUMBIO) 130 Human Nutrition, 4 units, extra unit available for public service option (Gardner).
Human Biology (HUMBIO) / Earth Systems (EARTHSYS) 165 Promoting Behavior Change, 5 units (Robinson, Armel).
Linguistics (LINGUIST) 65 African American Vernacular English, 4 units, fifth unit public service option (Rickford).
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 206B Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability, 4 units (Patell, Beach).
Medicine (MED) 257C Patient Advocacy, 2-4 units (Garcia, Banchoff).
Medicine (MED) 258 Advanced Patient Advocacy, 2-4 units (Garcia, Banchoff).
Medicine (MED) 259 Oaxacan Health on Both Sides of the Border: Pre-field Seminar, 2 units (Garcia, Banchoff).
Urban Studies (URBANST) 133 Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory, 4 units (Scher).
Writing and Rhetoric (PWR1) 1068 The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cellphone: The Rhetoric of India and Indian Film, 4 units (Mediratta).
Writing and Rhetoric (PWR1) 1081 Writing Nature: Discourses in Ecology, Culture, and Technology, 4 units (Ross).
Writing and Rhetoric (PWR2) 1098, 1168 The Politics of Food: Farming, Food Aid, and Frankenfoods, 4 units (Greene).
Writing and Rhetoric (PWR2) 1103, 1104 Indecision 2008: The Rhetoric of Politics, 4 units (Hanlon-Baker).
Focus on Public Service
The subject matter of the following course is public service.
Education (EDUC) 134 / Psychology (PSYCH) 192 Career and Personal Counseling, 3 units (Krumboltz).
Education (EDUC) 270A Learning to Lead in Public Service Organizations, 3-5 units (Hoagland).
Engineering (ENGR) 150/250 Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 1-6 units (Behrman).
Human Biology (HUMBIO) 171 The Death Penalty: Human Biology, Law, and Policy, 3 units (Abrams).
Political Science (POLISCI) 236 Theories of Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Nonprofit Sector, 5 units (Reich, Sievers).
Public Policy (PUBLPOL) 156 Health Care Policy and Reform, 5 units (Nation).
Preparation for Public Service
These courses provide students with the requisite academic skills and related preparation for public service fieldwork and internships.
African Sudies (AFRICAST) 200 The HIV/AIDS Crisis in Tanzania: A Pre Field Seminar 1 unit (Staff).
Cultural and Social Anthropology (CASA) 93 Pre-field Research Seminar, 5 units (Inoue).
Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) 203A The Changing Face of America: Civil Rights and Education Strategies for the 21st Century, 5 units (Montoya, Steyer).
Education (EDUC) 116X Service Learning as an Approach to Teaching, 3 units, (Cotterman, Mitchell).
Education (EDUC) 193A Listen Up! Core Peer Counseling Skills, 2 units (
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Departmental Internships
These internships offer the possibility of a public service experience.
Anthropological Sciences (ANTHSCI) 197 Internship in Anthropological Sciences, 4-5 units (Staff).
Earth Systems (EARTHSYS) 260 Internship, 1-9 units (Staff). Earth Systems majors only.
Ethics in Society (ETHICSOC) 198 Community Engagement Internship, 3-5 units (Staff).
Feminist Studies (FEMST) 108 Internship in Feminist Studies, 1-15 units (Staff). For non-majors.
Human Biology (HUMBIO) 197 Human Biology Internship, 1-4 units (Staff).
Urban Studies (URBANST) 194 Internship in Urban Studies, 2-4 units (Staff). Urban Studies majors only.