Project Description: Writing Partners engages pre-service teachers in activities designed to both provide role models for youth (future teachers) and deepens understanding of future teachers about the culture of schools and schooling and the developmental nature of education.
Community Partners:Sacramento City Unified (SCUSD)
Language Academy of Sacramento (LAS)
LATN 1A section 2 Beginning Latin
Riley, Mark
Fall 2009
Project Description: College students in Latin 1A will participate in Writing Partners with high school Latin students at Kennedy High School. Students will correspond and share their goals for studying Latin in the 21st Century.
Community Partners:Kennedy High School
NURS 21 section 1 Nursing 21 Freshman Seminar: Becoming an Educated Person
Curtis, Alexa
Fall 2009
Project Description: Students in this Freshman Seminar connect with fifth grade students at a local elementary school including many disadvantaged youth through a letter exchange. At the end of the semester the Sacramento State students host a campus day for the fifth grade students hopefully inspiring in the elementary students the understanding that they too can become university students some day.
Community Partners:David Reese Elementary School
PSYC 100 section 2 Cross-Cultural Psychology
Kim-Ju, Greg
Fall 2009
Project Description: Students serve as tutors/mentors at one of two schools, Will C. Wood Middle School and Hiram Johnson High School; or conduct research as part of a larger community mobilization program focused on addressing violence and academic issues at the same two schools.
Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School
Will C. Wood Middle School
ETHN 30 section 1 Introduction to Chicano/Latino Studies
Vega, Eric
Fall 2009
Project Description: Students provide mentoring services to high school/junior high school students/parents as part of the Ethnic Studies Department 65th Street Corridor Project. Students are expected to make connections between the readings, which focus on racial/ethnic diversity and inequality, to their experience working with a diverse body of students from the local community. Students who complete their service learning project will not have to complete a specific assigned paper for the Ethnic Studies 30 class.
Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School
ETHN 130 section 1 Chicano Mexican American Experience
Figueroa, Julie
Fall 2009
Project Description: 2. Students will research and discuss contemporary and sociopolitical issues relevant to Chicano/Mexican Americans identity, language, culture, education, and immigration (GE objectives 1-5, 7-8).
3. Students will critically review and analyze perspective and paradigms affecting Chicano/Mexican Americans regarding the academic achievement of Chicano/Mexican Americans (GE objectives 1-5, 7-8).
4. Identify those educational conditions that facilitate academic success of Chicano/Mexican Americans throughout the pipeline (GE objectives 3-5, 7-8).
Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School
Will C. Wood Middle School
ETHN 131 section 1 La Raza Studies
Figueroa, Julie
Fall 2009
Project Description: 1. Students will understand how historical, political, socioeconomic and culture shapes the life, identity, experiences and responses of these different groups along racial/ethnic lines (GE objectives 1-5, 7-8).
. Students will research and discuss the effect of contemporary sociopolitical issues relevant to Latino self-identity, migration and immigration policy (GE objectives 1-3, 7-8).
Community Partners:Will C. Wood Middle School
Hiram Johnson High School
ETHN 132 section 1 La Mujer
Figueroa, Julie
Fall 2009
Project Description: 1.Students will explore and discuss the nature of discourse/narrative and its role in constructing identity relative to a dynamic sociocultural context (GE objectives 1-7).
2.Students will gain an interdisciplinary perspective to discuss the theoretical and practical influences that identify mediate and/or transform the experience of being Mujer (GE objectives 1-4).
Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School
Will C. Wood Middle School
ETHN 110 section 1 Asian American Experience
Sobredo, James
Fall 2009
Project Description: Students will learn about the educational challenges facing Asian American students. Students will also learn about how Asian American Studies continues the spirit of the 1968/1969 Third World Strikes and the students' commitment to serving their communities.
Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School
Will C. Wood Middle School
ETHN 114 section 1 Asians and Globalization
Sobredo, James
Fall 2009
Project Description: Students will learn about the educational challenges facing Asian American Studies. Students will also learn about how the educational system in the US functions and compare that system with China, Japan, India and Germany.
Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School
Will C. Wood Middle School
EDTE 21 section 5 Freshman Seminar
Pfeifer, Jeanne
Fall 2009
Project Description: Helping students with "real" writing partners, (a teacher education experience), recognizing what a university education entails and communicating that to 5th graders.
Community Partners:Sacramento Language Academy
ETHN 11 section 6 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Ramirez, Elvia
Fall 2009
Project Description: Students provide tutoring services to high school students attending Hiram Johnson High School. Students are expected to make connections between the readings, which focus on racial/ethnic diversity and inequality, to their experiences working with a diverse body of students from the local community.
Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School
ETHN 137 section 1 Race and Ethnicity in Latin America & Caribbean
Ramirez, Elvia
Fall 2009
Project Description: Students provide tutoring services to students attending Hiram Johnson High School. Students are expected to tie their experiences working in the local community to the class readings, which analyze the impact of local and global economic processes on Latino/Latin American & other marginalized communities.
Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School
SWRK 95 section 1 Introduction to Social Work
OKeefe, Maura
Fall 2009
Project Description: Some of the objectives include
1. Understanding the roles and functions performed by social workers
2. Understand one's motivation for being interested in the field of social work
3. Understand one's personal belief system and its potential to impact one's work as a professional social
Community Partners:Sacramento Food Band and Family Services,
Twin Rivers USD,
People Reaching Out,
Sacramento Mutual Housing Association,
Hart Senior Center,
National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence,
Sac City USD Navigators Mentoring Program,
Skylab at Serna Community Center,
SWRK 95 section 2 Introduction to Social Work
OKeefe, Maura
Fall 2009
Project Description: Some of the objectives include
1. Understanding the roles and functions performed by social workers
2. Understand one's motivation for being interested in the field of social work
3. Understand one's personal belief system and its potential to impact one's work as a professional social
Community Partners:Sacramento Food Band and Family Services,
Twin Rivers USD,
People Reaching Out,
Sacramento Mutual Housing Association,
Hart Senior Center,
National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence,
Sac City USD Navigators Mentoring Program,
Skylab Serna Village
