Taught By:
Elizabeth Talbert
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Anthropology and Sociology
Drake University
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Course Description:
The Senior Seminar on Community Engagement is a culmination of a student's study of their major, and provides an opportunity to apply knowledge and skills to a hands-on community-based project. The semester-long course, meeting as a seminar, asks students to propose, pursue, and complete an independent project in conjunction with a collegiate or local changemaker organization, to be negotiated in its detail with the faculty member, that will result in a completed product (report, fact sheet, podcast, etc.) and an oral presentation. The student project should draw on the practices of inquiry and analysis found in the coursework and reading common to the major area and reflect the student's academic experience in the major. The course will also present a model for social action and guide students in their work through this model.
