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Past Course Offerings

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)
  • Commonly Offered Courses

    A list and description of commonly offered academic civic engagement courses at Carleton College