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Spring 2008 - All Service Learning Courses
Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 2:00-3:15PM
Instructor: Andrew Marcum
Starting with the premise that cultural products matter,this course seeks to explore the ways in which media and cultural products are received, produced and deploid in American Communities. How do media and culture shape our understanding of "American" communities and the issues they face? How are various forms of pop culture and media employed as a form of community activism?
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Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 2:00-3:15
Instructor: Patrick Staib
The agricultural tradition of Albuquerque's South Valley community is in constant negotiation with an ever changing political, social, and ecological landscape. How has the role of agriculture in their community changed over time? How are community members' efforts, both individually and collectively, working to maintain, revitalize or preserve traditional and innovative agricultural practice and knowledge in this area? What responses do interested community members have for the changing role of agriculture in the South Valley? This course will explore related literatures in ethnographic theory, environmentalist and agricultural literature, and the ethnohistory of the middle Rio Grande agricultural traditions.
Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 2:00-3:15
Instructor: Sean Bruna
For over a century, urban community gardens have served as meeting locations for communities to address hunger and homelessness, individual and community health, nationalism, and local economic needs, to name but a few purposes. In this course, students will read about the history and purpose of community gardens in the United States while learning fundamental concepts in cultural anthropology. In addition, students will partner with organizations and individuals in the Barelas Community to conduct community based research and continue development of the Barelas Community Garden.
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Meeting Days: Mondays > 4:00-6:30
Instructor: Bhavana Upadhyaya
This course continues the work that was started by students in fall 2007. Students will learn different issues about hunger in New Mexico, specifically, the way hunger facts are communicated around the globe and in New Mexico. We will be continuing communication campaign to bring awareness about hunger by moving from the campus to the neighborhoods surrounding University. Additionally, we will be continuing the work on developing community gardens at the University.
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Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 3:00-4:30
Instructor: Anna Saggese
In this Research Service Learning class, students will research, discuss, connect and respond to various perspectives on “hunger.” With the goal of mounting a full-scale production, students will conduct interviews and translate their findings into a dramatic piece. This course is intended to offer a theatrical exploration in support of the hunger initiative that is currently taking place in Albuquerque. In an experiential learning environment, students will undertake all aspects of theatrical production including playwriting, design, publicity and performing. Previous theater experience is not required.
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Meeting Days: Tuesdays > 2:00-4:45
Instructor: Les Field
Food is often described as one of the "biological needs" that each person must fulfill on a daily basis. Hunger is usually considered the consequence of an absence of food. But if food is defined, shaped, understood and consumed in profoundly cultural ways, hunger must be as well, and the specific manner in which food and hunger are conceptualized are unique in New Mexico. Cultural Anthropology, the study of humanity’s cultural development offers analytic and research tools for a well-rounded and holistic understanding of food and hunger. We will use those tools to study these phenomenon in our state.
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Meeting Days: Tuesdays > 2:00-3:15
Instructor: Lissa Knudsen
Meeting Days: Tuesdays > 8:00-9:15
Instructor: Tom Damp
In this class you will learn to develop self-confidence by building appropriate skills that can be useful when giving presentations to various types of audiences. You will learn about how to become a more competent, effective communicator, and a more critical listener. While enrolled in this RSLP class you will also have the unique opportunity to explore how hunger and/or issues closely related to hunger affect people in our society. During the semester you will conduct service work at a field site and then communicate what you have learned to others in your presentations.
Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 12:30-1:45
Instructor: Lissa Knudsen
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Meeting Days: Mondays > 1:00-3:30
Instructor: Bill Fleming
This course is designed as a field course to explore the connections between local sustainable agriculture and the food needs of the University. Sustainable agriculture can be defined as a system that high-quality food while maintaining or improving the soil and protecting the environment—the air, water, soil, vegetation and biodiversity of species. Sustainable agriculture is a system that continually replenishes itself, providing benefits over the very long term. It is a system that uses the resources in a ways that renew them, rather than using them and not replacing them. We will be working closely with one of the “community supported agriculture” groups in the South Valley, such as Sanchez Farm, ERDA, Chispa, and Dragon Farm. After evaluating the ecological health of the farming sites (soils, vegetation, water, cultural and environmental resources, we will explore means to connect farmers and clients (markets, restaurants, and food service outlets.) In particular, we will work with the food services staff of UNM to establish ways of guaranteeing local, healthy and environmentally friendly food for UNM students, faculty and staff.
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Meeting Days: Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays > 1:00-1:50
Instructor: Melissa Binder
This course seeks to understand Hunger in New Mexico through the lens of Economics. We will use microeconomic analysis to explore why markets do not always deliver socially desirable outcomes and why federal and state anti-poverty programs have failed to eliminate hunger. As required in all RSLP classes, students will spend three hours as community volunteers with one of five organizations. Throughout the semester, students will keep a log of observations from their volunteer work and economics concepts from class, noting how concepts relate to their volunteer experiences and thinking about what statistical or behavioral information must be gathered to design effective policies and potential policy reforms. In groups of five, students will develop research and policy reform proposals to be shared with the other Hunger in New Mexico RSLP courses throughout the semester. Students will have the option of continuing an independent study with me in the summer and fall to implement their proposals as part of an ongoing RSLP effort to bring research to bear on the problem of hunger in our state.
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Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 9:30-10:45
Instructor: Leigh Johnson
Students in these linked classes will conduct a survey of major world religions and complete a writing course on argumentation and research. As they go to Service Learning sites to work with the New Mexico Hunger Initiative, students will use their experiences for their research and writing. In-class activities will include discussion of exciting primary texts, presentations, and film.
Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 9:30-10:45
Instructor: Jeremy Ricketts
Students in these linked classes will conduct a survey of major world religions and complete a writing course on argumentation and research. As they go to Service Learning sites to work with the New Mexico Hunger Initiative, students will use their experiences for their research and writing. In-class activities will include discussion of exciting primary texts, presentations, and film.
Meeting Days: Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays > 11:00-11:50
Instructor: Tim Santor
Meeting Days: Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays > 11:00-11:50
Instructor: Elizabeth Baros
Meeting Days: Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays > 9:00-9:50
Instructor: Adam Bubb
Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 2:00-3:15
Instructor: Skye Pratt
Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 9:30-10:45
Instructor: Wanda Martin
English 220 is an intermediate composition course. This section will investigate why many people who are eligible for food stamps don’t take advantage of that benefit, explore why that’s a problem, and propose some possible solutions. To build our knowledge, we’ll read a variety of essays and articles together and work with community organizations to gather more information. Through frequent short writing assignments, students will develop ideas and evidence for three longer papers, each directed to an audience that can be influenced by reasoning and that has the ability to act: * a report on the extent of this problem in New Mexico and how it affects individuals, families, and communities; *an argument that makes and supports a strong claim about the causes and effects of this problem; *a proposal for action that proposes a strategy for addressing some part of this problem.
Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 11:00-12:15
Instructor: Erin Lebacqz
Students will prepare a resource handbook for Albuquerque residents who need to access food, health, and shelter services. We will analyze needs, identify local resources, and research the issues surrounding our city’s hunger, health, and homelessness issues. We will write and design documents and research funding and distribution sources. At midterm, students will present a paper or poster at the UNM Research and Creativity Symposium, highlighting the research necessary to the handbook. This service learning class will provide experience in professional writing, field work, and business, while also giving students the opportunity to help address New Mexico's hunger crisis.
Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 11:00-12:15
Instructor: Erin Lebacqz
Students will prepare a resource handbook for Albuquerque residents who need to access food, health, and shelter services. We will analyze needs, identify local resources, and research the issues surrounding our city’s hunger, health, and homelessness issues. We will write and design documents and research funding and distribution sources. At midterm, students will present a paper or poster at the UNM Research and Creativity Symposium, highlighting the research necessary to the handbook. This service learning class will provide experience in professional writing, field work, and business, while also giving students the opportunity to help address New Mexico's hunger crisis.
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Meeting Days: Mondays > 1:00-3:30
Instructor: Danielson Kisanga
This course will explore physical geography related factors which influence poverty, hunger and food insecurity in New Mexico. In particular the course will discuss and analyze atmospheric, hydrological, lithospheric and biological factors interactions as well as extreme weather and climatic events on these problems. These interactions will studied in relation to human distribution patterns and reasons for patterns observed. The course will have internship/field trips and final report as learning outcome product.
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Meeting Days: Tuesdays > 2:30-5:00
Instructor: Tiffany Lee
Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 11:00-12:15
Instructor: Mary Bowannie
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Meeting Days: Tuesdays > 2:00-4:45
Instructor: Paul Platero
Navajo 202 is a second year conversation course. This service learning class will explore community gardens in the last century as practiced by the Canoncito Navajos and how it declined along with community cohesiveness. In this course, students will learn about gardening under extreme arid conditions and without any source of good irrigation water. Students will partner with community members to begin gardens using drip style irrigation. Navajo vocabulary in addition to those required for NVJO 202 will allow students to learn and use them with their partners. Students desiring to work with Navajos in medicine, nursing, nutrition, anthropology, social work, etc. will find this service-oriented course as a way to help combat hunger among the Navajos at Canoncito.
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Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 9:00-10:45
Instructor: Jessica Goodkind
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Meeting Days: Tuesdays > 11:00-12:15
Instructor: Lisa Gerber
Students in these linked classes will conduct a survey of major world religions and complete a writing course on argumentation and research. As they go to Service Learning sites to work with the New Mexico Hunger Initiative, students will use their experiences for their research and writing. In-class activities will include discussion of exciting primary texts, presentations, and film.
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Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 9:30-10:45
Instructor: Bruce Milne
Meeting Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays > 12:30-1:45
Instructor: Bruce Milne
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