Project Description: Students practice patient care skills under the direct supervision of a licensed physical therapist. These skills include communication, patient safety, accountability, clinical reasoning, examination, evaluation, diagnosis and progrosis of patients, developing plan of care and documentation.
Community Partners:*
Sonora Health
Veterans Administration N. Calif
Sutter Health Sacto SIerra Region
Kaiser permanente S. California
Enloe Hospital, Chico
Kaiser Permanente, N. Calif
Mercy (CHW) Sacarmento
St. Joseph Hospital - Eureka
Fremont Rideout Health
UC Davis Med Center
ENGL 116B section 4 Children's Literary Classics
Zarins, Kim
Fall 2010
Project Description: Community Engagement through Writing Partners, in which college students write about literature in a lette exchange with fourth grade students at Dillon Elementary. Goal is to strengthen University students writing skills, mentor 4th graders through the letter exchange in helping elementary students understand the college is there for them.
Community Partners:Dillon Elementary school
FACS 162 section 1 Family Support Services
Moylan, J
Fall 2010
Project Description: Service learning activities provide the critical connection between theoretical knowledge and a practical understanding of various community services which support families. Students develop professional skills that cannot be taught in the classroom alone. This connection between the classroom and the community partner provides a valuable transfer of information and support in both directions.
Community Partners:Folsom Cordova Community Partnership
People Reaching Out
Sacramento Crisis Nurseries
Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services
Valley Hi Family Resource Center
St. John's Shelter for Women & Children
Sutter Memorial Hospital-Child Life Specialist Communicare Health - John H. Jones Clinic
Elk Grove (EGUSD)
Valley High School
Fren 1B section 3 Elementary French
Suter, Laurette
Spring 2010
Project Description: Sac State students are able to use vocabulary and grammar learned to write letters in French on specific topics. Question format is used so the writing partner, in turn, can respond with specific answers in their return correspondance. This increases their communication skills and provides an opportunity to share relevant, personal experiences (ex: what their family make-up is, what they did on vacation, what activities/sports they enjoy, etc.)
Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School
HROB 101 section 13 Management of Contemporary Organizations
Ozcelik, Hakan
Spring 2010
Project Description: The goal of this service learning activity, which is a group research project, is to improve students’ conceptual and practical skills to apply the Organizational Behavior (OB) concepts by analyzing an organization based on the data collected from this organization and a review of relevant research. For this purpose, teams of students conduct an OB analysis of a company regarding one chosen topic, identify the company’s strengths and weaknesses, and provide recommendations based on their analysis. Each project team will study a topic of their choice, based on their interests and the needs of the organization that they will study. Examples of topics include analyzing a company’s incentive system based on equity and expectancy theories, analyzing motivation in a company using the job characteristics model, analyzing jobs from a job design perspective, goal setting, performance in teams, and emotional labor practices.
Community Partners:Eskaton Administrative Office
ENGL 116B section 4 Children's Literary Classics
Zarins, Kim
Spring 2010
Project Description: Writing Partners allows students to improve their writing and engage with elementary students to improve pedagoical strategies. Students will exchange letters exploring themes and elements within children's literature. Elementary students will reflect on their readings and share their experience of reading.
Community Partners:Dillard Elementary (EGUSD)
EDTE 103 B section 1 Tutoring Children Reading
Okane, Pamela
Spring 2010
Project Description: Prior to Sacramento State students field-experience course includes: Hands on class sessions with primary focus on the comprehensive framework for learning how to read and instructional methods for tutoring elementary students in reading.(Co requisite EDTE 103 B) EDTE 103 B. The tutoring process includes: Teaching word analysis skills, sight words and comprehension through multi-cultural literature, folktales-fairytales, Readers Theater and poetry. Students will learn to adapt tutoring for learning styles, motivation, learning disabilities, and ESL students.
Community Partners:Cordova Meadows Elementary
James Marshall Elementary
EDTE 103 B section 2 Tutoring Children Reading
Okane, Pamela
Spring 2010
Project Description: Prior to Sacramento State students field-experience course includes: Hands on class sessions with primary focus on the comprehensive framework for learning how to read and instructional methods for tutoring elementary students in reading.(Co requisite EDTE 103 B) EDTE 103 B. The tutoring process includes: Teaching word analysis skills, sight words and comprehension through multi-cultural literature, folktales-fairytales, Readers Theater and poetry. Students will learn to adapt tutoring for learning styles, motivation, learning disabilities, and ESL students.
Community Partners:Cordova Meadows Elementary
James Marshall Elementary
ETHN 11 section 1 Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Mark, Gregory
Spring 2010
Project Description: To provide students with a broad range of information relating to issues affecting and concern of communities of color.
To promote an understanding of the ethnic diversity of American society.
Community Partners:Hiram Johnson high school
Will C. Wood middle school
ETHN 113 section 1 Asian American Studies
Mark, Gregory
Spring 2010
Project Description: Understand the social, political, cultural, and economic conditions that affect community formation of Asian American communities.
Community Partners:hiram johnson high school
will c. wood middle school
EDBM 170 section 2 Intro to Bil Education
Baird, Peter
Spring 2010
Project Description: EDBM 170 requires that all students tutor a child who is an English Learner in a school setting. The Sac State students learn from the tutees about what it is like to be an English Learner, and our students provide invaluable tutoring assistace under the supervision of a school employee.
Community Partners:School Districts
Elk Grove (EGUSD)
Anna Kirchgater Elementary School
ASES Afterschool Program
Charles Mack Elementary
David Reese Elementary School
Florin Elementary School
Florin High School
Herman Leimbach Elementary School
Irene B. West Elementary School
Jessie Baker Elementary School
Samuel Kennedy Elementary School
Valley High School
EDBM 170 section 5 Intro to Bil Education
Baird, Peter
Spring 2010
Project Description: EDBM 170 requires that all students tutor a child who is an English Learner in a school setting. The Sac State students learn from the tutees about what it is like to be an English Learner, and our students provide invaluable tutoring assistace under the supervision of a school employee.
Community Partners:School Districts
Elk Grove (EGUSD)
Anna Kirchgater Elementary School
ASES Afterschool Program
Charles Mack Elementary
David Reese Elementary School
Florin Elementary School
Florin High School
Herman Leimbach Elementary School
Irene B. West Elementary School
Jessie Baker Elementary School
Samuel Kennedy Elementary School
Valley High School
ETHN 110 section 1 Asian American Experience
Sobredo, James
Spring 2010
Project Description: Students serve as tutors at one of two schools, Will C. Wood Middle School or Hiram Johnson High School, in the Sacramento City Unified School District.
Community Partners:Will C. Wood Middle School
Hiram Johnson High School
ETHN 112 section 1 Contemporary Asian American Issues
Maeda, Wayne
Spring 2010
Project Description: Students serve as tutors at one of two schools, Will C. Wood Middle School or Hiram Johnson High School, in the Sacramento City Unified School District.
Community Partners:Will C. Wood Middle School
Hiram Johnson High School
ETHN 132 section 1 La Mujer Chicana
Figueroa, Julie
Spring 2010
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).