Project Description: The course promotes and fosters the development of CAMP students through training, professional development, and community building. The course places talented CAMP students who have shown great leadership potential in government, business and nonprofit organizations to prepare them for positions of leadership. Learning Objectives: - To examine leadership and public policy within the context of a changing contemporary multicultural and multiethnic society. - To increase professional knowledge and contacts while learning desirable lifelong skills. - Complete 8-10 hours of service learning (per week for 12 weeks per semester for an academic year) acquired through service learning.
Community Partners:California Protective Parents Association: Court Watch Project
Language Academy of Sacramento
NCADD National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.
Sacramento Mutual Housing Association (SMHA)
Ethel I. Baker Elementary
Asian Resources Inc.
The GreenHouse
Califnria Conservation Corps/John Muir Charter School
PSYC 122 section 1 Qualitative Research in Psychology
August, Rachel
Fall 2012
Project Description: Students have the opportunity to practice professional skills in real-life setting by interviewing residents, analyzing data, and writing feedback reports. Students contribute to the effective functioning of an organization by providing recommendations for change.
Community Partners:Eskaton Properties Incorporated
BIO 195T section 1 Teaching Internship
McDonald, Kelly
Fall 2012
Project Description: Bio 195T is a service learning opportunity for biology majors and minors interested in exploring a career in K-12 science teaching. It is an elective, stand-alone field experience that is not embedded or linked to another course. As a result, students will apply knowledge accumulated throughout their degree programs. Through this course, students will gain authentic experience in a middle or high school science classroom, which will help inform their career decisions and promote the development of their civic identities.
Community Partners:Sheldon High School (EGUSD)
Sutter Middle School (SCUSD)
Hiram Johnson West Campus High School (SCUSD)
Grant Union High School(TRUSD)
Rio Linda Senior High School (TRUSD)
GERO 101 section 1 Elder Care Continuum Services & Strategies
Tift, Teri
Fall 2012
Project Description: SL activities acquaint the student with the spectrum of services targeted for older adults and introduce the field of aging services. In this context, students are exposed to the full continuum of care for seniors such as skilled and long-term nursing care, home health,residential care, affordable housing for seniors, and independent community-based services.
Community Partners:Eskaton Administrative Office
Eskaton Education
Eskaton Lodge Gold River
Eskaton Senior Connection
CHDV 132 section 2 Fieldwork in Child Development
Biddle, Kimberly
Fall 2012
Project Description: Service learning will facilitate the students learning and understanding of child development theory and research in an applied and experiential setting.
Through a service learning experience students will develop an awareness of community needs and the rewards of civic engagement.
Community Partners:Folsom Cordova Community Partnership
NCADD National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.
People Reaching Out
Placer Nature Center
Project R.I.D.E.
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services
Valley Hi Family Resource Center
Wellspring Women's Center
St. John's Shelter for Women & Children
Sutter Memorial Hospital-Child Life Specialist Program
Union House Elementary, EGUSD
Touch of Understanding
Lilliput Children's Services
Associated Students Children's Center
Language Academy of Sacramento
CHDV 35F section 3 Human Development and Elementary Field Experience
Wessels, Denise
Fall 2012
Project Description: Students will work at an Elementary School to explore the integration of their experiences with theory and research in Human Development. Issues in learning, social and physical development will be examined as related to the school learning experiences.
Community Partners:C.B. Wire Elem. (SCUSD)
ENGL 116B section 1 Children's Literary Classics
Zarins, Kim
Fall 2012
Project Description: Writing Partners @ Sac State program: College and elementary students write letters, read a shared novel, and have a culminating experience.
Community Partners:Dillard Elementary
ENGL 116B section 3 Children's Literary Classics
Zarins, Kim
Fall 2012
Project Description: Writing Partners @ Sac State program: College and elementary students write letters, read a shared novel, and have a culminating experience.
Community Partners:Dillard Elementary
ENGL 116B section 4 Children's Literary Classics
Zarins, Kim
Fall 2012
Project Description: Writing Partners @ Sac State program: College and elementary students write letters, read a shared novel, and have a culminating experience.
Community Partners:Dillard Elementary
CSC 21 section 80 First Year Seminar: Becoming an Educated Person
Radimsky, Anne-Louise
Fall 2012
Project Description: Students will communicate with Barbara Morse 4th grade students . They will write a total of at least four letters, the last of which will be an invitation to visit the campus. My students will tell the elementary school students how they came to choose their major and will encourage them to studey math and science.
Writing Partners @ Sac State
Community Partners:Elk Grove (EGUSD)
Barbara Morse Elementary
ENGL 10 section 15 Academic Literacies 1
Cordova, Teresa
Fall 2012
Project Description: Writing Partners @ Sac State participation will give my students a stronger sense of audience awareness and context for their written work, leadership practice/experience in the community, and pride and confidence in their writing.
Community Partners:Florin Elmenentary (EGUSD)
ENGL 10 section 27 Academic Literacies 1
Cordova, Teresa
Fall 2012
Project Description: Writing Partners @ Sac State participation will give my students a stronger sense of audience awareness and context for their written work, leadership practice/experience in the community, and pride and confidence in their writing.
Community Partners:Florin Elmementary (EGUSD)
ENGL 10 section 28 Academic Literacies 1
Cordova, Teresa
Fall 2012
Project Description: Writing Partners @ Sac State Participation will give my students a stronger sense of audience awareness and context for their written work, leadership practice/experience in the community, and pride and confidence in their writing.
Community Partners:Florin Elementary (EGUSD)
ENGL 10M section 81 Academic Literacies I - Multilingual
Mitchell, Rebecca
Fall 2012
Project Description: My students in my freshman English course will have the opportunity to realistically consider the audience as they write. They will learn how writing has the power to influence and in and beyond the university.
Community Partners:Barbara Morse Elementary (EGUSD)
BIO 1 section 5 Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution
Datwyler, Shannon
Fall 2012
Project Description: Students will participate in the Writing Partners @ Sac State program. Three to four letter exchanges will take place over the course of the semester with a culminating event at the end of the semester in which Bio 1 students will teach elementary students about science.
Community Partners:Barbara Morse Elementary School