Civic engagement courses will serve to unite the perspective of scholars and activists by providing students a course of study that integrates research and theory with the central public concerns of our day. These courses fall under two categories: applied and theoretical. Applied courses include direct with in the community incorporating either service-learning, community-based learning, and/or community-based research; whereas, theoretical courses address issues of public concern.

Listed below is a sampling of both applied and theoretical civic engagement courses. Please consider these courses when registering!

Applied:

• AMST 226 U.S. Consumer Culture (Igra)
• IDSC 200 Public Service-Local Context (Savina)
• MUSC 102 African Drum Ensemble (Johnson)
• RELG 100 Native American Religions (McNally)
• SPAN 204 Intermediate Spanish (Doleman)

Theoretical:

• ECON 270 Economies of the Public Sector (Wahl)
• HEBR 100 Personal and National Identity in Israeli and Palestinian Literature (Beckwith)
• HIST 182 History of South African (Monson)
• HIST 220 African American History I (Williams)
• PHYS 100 Science, Technology, Public Policy (Weisberg)
• POSC 120 Comparative Political Regimes (Westerhout)
• POSC 201 National Policymaking (Keiser)
• POSC 385 Comparative Democratic Institutions (Montero)
• SPAN 108 Coffee and News (Lopez)
• SPAN 326 Writers in Exile (Brioso)
• THEA 220/1 The Public Speaker (Wiles)
• THEA 353 African-American Theater from 1935-Present (Wiles)