Department

Course

Instructor

Term Schedule

Sociology

SOCI 342: Consumers and Consumption - Students have the option of working with one of two community organizations, either Be the Change Earth Alliance to support secondary school action groups as they address consumer choice and behavioral change or to develop curriculum for SPEC’s School Gardens Project.

Dr. Amy Hanser

Term 1

English

ENGL 225-001: Poetry and Community - Students will study five poets, learn the fundamentals of poetry and poetics and learn to teach poetry to children (kindergarten to 7) in two East Vancouver schools with particularly high literacy needs. Students will make arrangements with their partnered school's classroom teacher to teach poetry once a week for twelve weeks. At the end of term, they will teach the children to sew their own miniature book of their poems, and host reading events at the partner school for the entire community.

Gillian Jerome

Term 1

The School Social Work

SOWK 440C: Social/Community Development and Community Based Research - Students will have the opportunity to work in specific projects with local communities related to health, quality of life, poverty, mental health issues, etc. Students will develop skills through a variety of community based research and projects and work with a community in advancing a community-based research project and critically reflecting on issues, tensions and processes involved.

Dr. Pilar Riano-Alcala

Term 1

Asian Studies

Punjabi 300: Students will engage with local Punjabi writer associations to develop a sense of how members to the Punjabi speaking community narrate their lives. Students will share their findings through creative ways within the community.

Dr. Ann Murphy

Term 1/Term 2

The School of Music

MUSC 403F: Hearts of the City: Introduction to Applied Ethnomusicology - Ethnomusicology students will participate in existing music programs, or design and implement new music programs, for community organizations, health centres and performing arts companies working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a community that struggles with urban poverty issues. In so doing, students will investigate how music may address drug and alcohol addictions, confront socioeconomic inequity, marginalization and violence, and provide new opportunities for self expression, learning and wage-earning.

Dr. Klisala Harrison

Term 1

Political Science

Poli 449A-001:  Political Theory and Nonhuman Life - Students will have the opportunity to work with the Burns Bog Society or the Wilderness Committee of BC to better understand non-human life and large transportation initiatives in the lower mainland.

Dr. Laura Janara

Term 1

Psychology

PSYC 417A: Community Psychology - Students will have the opportunity to provide volunteer support with a social service organization working in the areas of homelessness, cultural adaption/immigration, crime, health promotion, early intervention, workplace wellbeing etc. 

Dr. Tom Ehmann

Term 2

Economics

ECON 317: Poverty and Inequality - Student will understand the economic theories, methodologies and evidence about inequality in Canada and other countries through partnerships with community organizations. Details of the exact nature of the community Service Learning placement are to be determined by the instructor.

Dr. Catherine Douglas

Term 2

Political Science

POLI 328A: Topics in Comparative Politics: The Comparative Politics of Immigration - Students will engage in community service learning projects that support the work of immigrant and refugee service providers. Details of the exact nature of the community Service Learning placement are to be determined by the instructor.

Dr. Antje Ellermann

Terms 2

Geography

GEOG 371 201: Research Strategies in Human Geography - Students will have the opportunity to partner with a community based organization to define research questions of relevance to the partner site.

Dr. Caleb Johnson

Term 2

Geography

Geog 419: Research in Environmental Geography - Students will have the opportunity to undertake community based research projects that address both environmental issues, as well as that of waste management. Projects will be defined in partnership with the community based organization.

Dr. David Brownstein

Term 2

Sociology/Anthropology

ANTH 409 / SOCI 495 - Immigrant Vancouver Ethnographic Field School (IVEFS) - Students will commit several hours each week at a community based organization, including neighbourhood house, immigrant serving agencies etc. Students, in partnership with their respective sites, will also define and conduct ethnographic research of relevance to the organization served.

Dr. Jennifer Chun and Dr. Alexia Bloch

May-June 2011