Service Learning Course Offerings
* indicates that the class fulfills a core requirement, **counts for core but RS 10 is a prerequisite
| Courses | Number | Professor | Description of Service/Projects |
| Social Protest Literature | *EN 126 A | Petrino | Students may engage in service with a community-based organization of their choosing for between 12 and 20 hours. Service work will relate to literature or social action. |
| Liberation Theology | **RS 235 | Lakeland | Students may select any service activity that places them in a situation where they can better understand the complex social problems of the urban poor, new immigrants, racial "minorities", or LGBT populations. |
| American Sociology | *SO 112 | Schlichting | Students will have the opportunity to select to commit 20 hours to course-related service work. |
| Grant and Proposal Writing | EN/W 339 | Sobocinski | Students will provide grant writing services for several non-profits in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The whole class will work as an extended creative team, supporting each other and acting as a consulting group to meet needs in our community. |
| Develop Psy/majors | PY 264 | Primavera | Students work with the Adrienne Kirby Family Literacy Project, doing literacy work and mentoring. |
| Neuroanatomy and Behavior Lab & Lecture | PY 271 A/B | Harding | Students work together to "teach" neuroscience / brain awareness to 6th- and 7th-grade student in the Bridgeport area. |
Charles F. Dolan School of Business
| Courses | Number | Professor | Description of Service/Projects |
| Not-for-Profit and Governmental Accounting | AC 380 | Brenner | Students will intern with local not for profit organizations. The focus of student work may include working with the organization's accounting department to help them process accounting transactions, assisting in analyzing and reconciling accounts, or engage in a low level study of the organization's internal control structure and reporting back a fresh perspective on how the organization can strengthen and/or streamline their internal controls. |
| Courses | Number | Professor | Description of Service/Projects |
| Public Health Nursing | NS 330 | Greiner | Students in this course begin by conducting an assessment of the community to which they are assigned. The community may be a geographic area or a population, such as older adults, veterans or disabled persons. In the course of the community assessment, students identify community partners, either organizations or individuals, with whom they work to address a health issue or concern in the community. The health issue is identified either by the community residents or by organizations that work in the community. The students, with their community partners, work to establish sustainable, evidence-based interventions to address the identified health concern. |
| Epidemiology and Health Promotion | NS 501 | Deshefy-Longhi | Students will conduct a health promotion project with a community based non-profit organization. Students will meet with the agency leadership and clients, determine a health problem of mutual interest, plan, and deliver an educational intervention and conduct an intervention evaluation. |
| Nursing of Children and Family | NS 323 | O'Shea | Students will spend 10.5 hours conducting a health education intervention with preschool age children. Programs will center on lead education and healthy nutrition & exercise. |
Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions
| Courses | Number | Professor | Description of Service/Projects |
| Philosophical Foundations of Education, An Introduction | ED 329 | Kohli | Students in this course will work in Bridgeport schools for a minimum of 20 hours per semester to perform an 'educational service,' broadly defined and one that the community partners want to have happen. Activities have included working one-on-one with students in a tutorial or mentoring relationship, or working with afterschool clubs to enrich the learning of the Bridgeport students. In all cases, the personal, caring relationships developed remind the Bridgeport students of their potential to go on to post-secondary education. |
| Explorations in Teaching: Teaching, Learning and Schooling | ED 200 | Storms & Goldberg |
Students will work within an elementary or high school setting in the Bridgeport Public and/or Diocesan schools. The actual tasks will vary, but everyone will have an opportunity to assist a classroom teacher and will work one-to-one or in small groups with students. Participants will contribute to the school community in various ways. |
| Courses | Number | Professor | Description of Service/Projects |
| Web Development | SW304/SW406 | Rusu | Students will engaged in semester-long team projects that provide assistance to local community service organizations. The Web Development techniques and methodologies studied in the course will be applied to designing and developing real-world Web applications, providing valuable learning opportunities. |
| Senior Design Capstone | SW 550/551 | Yoo | Students will work on software related service project for and with the community. The course is designed as 1 year project course and students are organized as a team (3-5 members/team) working on a large scaled software engineering project following the software life cycle. The project can be anything related to software from developing organization management software tools to setting up wireless network to help community. |
| Courses | Number | Professor | Description of Service/Projects |
| Environmental Justice | AE 283A | Torosyan | This course allows students the options to commit approximately 15 hours to a community partner of their choice around environmental justice issues. |
| Mass Media & Society | CO 130 (section C) | Gil-Egui | Students in the course will coordinate bi-weekly workshops on media literacy for participants in an after-school program at the Newfield branch of Bridgeport's Public Library (BPL). The media literacy workshops will enrich the menu of activities for teenagers offered by BPL, build participants' critical skills through hands-on explorations on popular media content, and increase their awareness about the diverse forms of content, beyond books, available in the library's collection. |
| End of Life Communication | CO 341/A CO 497/01 |
Pagano | This course will provide students with an applied approach to the study of end-of-life health communication, as well as an opportunity to provide service to community members who are terminally ill, but still seek human interaction. This course is intended to examine the processes, complexities, and impact of communication between Hospice: staff and patients/families, volunteers and patients/families; patients and families; staff; and staff and the administration. |
| Literacy and Language | EN 172 | Bowen | Students will participate in literacy tutoring pairings with elementary school students at Cesar Batalla School in Bridgeport. Students will have the opportunity to observe young children's literacy development. |
| Proposals and Grant Writing | EN/W 339 | Sobocinski | Students will provide grant writing services for several non-profits in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The whole class will work as an extended creative team, supporting each other and acting as a consulting group to meet needs in our community. |
| International Operations of Non-Profits | IL 150 | Poli | Students will have the option to work on individualized projects with the Montage Initiative, a Bridgeport-based NGO. Students will work directly with the CEO to develop and carry out their projects. |
| Capstone Research Seminar Peace & Justice Studies | PJ 398 | Boryczka | Students will work with the after-school tutoring program at the McGiveny Center in Bridgeport. Students will also participate in a week-long immersion experience working with the Freret Neighborhood Center in New Orleans, Louisiana over Spring Break. |
| Develop Psychology for Majors with Lab | PY 264 | Primavera | Students work with the Adrienne Kirby Family Literacy Project, doing literacy work and mentoring. |
| International Migration | SO 185 | Jones | Students will to work with local organizations that serve the local immigrant population. Students will commit a minimum of 20 hours to service activities. |
Charles F. Dolan School of Business
| Courses | Number | Professor | Description of Service/Projects |
| Special Topics - VITA/Tax Prep | AC 385A | D’Agostin | Students will work as volunteer income tax preparers and prepare income tax returns for taxpayers eligible for free tax return preparation service through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program of the IRS. |
| Technology and Society | IS 220 | Huntley | Students will work with Bassick High School students through Youth Power Partnership on basic computer applications. Specific projects will be developed. |
| International Information Systems | IS 350 | Vinekar | This course, International information Systems, deals with how information systems and information technology have changed the world, and how it can be used, through organizations, to change the world for the better. Through the service-learning project, students will get a first-hand experience of how the course content can be applied to make beneficial changes in the world. |
| Courses | Number | Professor | Description of Service Projects |
| Nursing of Children and Family | NS 323 | O’Shea | Students will spend 10.5 hours conducting a health education intervention with preschool age children. Programs will center on lead education and healthy nutrition and exercise. |
| Public Health Nursing | NS 330 | Greiner | Students in this course begin by conducting an assessment of the community to which they are assigned. The community may be a geographic area or a population, such as older adults, veterans or disabled persons. In the course of the community assessment, students identify community partners, either organizations or individuals, with whom they work to address a health issue or concern in the community. The health issue is identified either by the community residents or by organizations that work in the community. The students, with their community partners, work to establish sustainable, evidence-based interventions to address the identified health concern. |
| Epidemiology and Health Promotion | NS 501 | Deshefy-Longhi | Students will conduct a health promotion project with a community-based non-profit organization. Students will meet with the agency leadership to determine a health problem of mutual interest, plan and deliver an educational intervention, and conduct and intervention analysis. |
Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions
| Courses | Number | Professor | Description of Service Projects |
| Explorations in Teaching: Teaching, Learning and Schooling | ED 200 A ED 200 B |
Calderwood Goldberg |
Students discover how education is accomplished in schools through the social construction of teaching and learning. About 25 hours of service in a high needs school are required. |
| Philosophy of Education, an Introduction | ED 329 | Kohli | Students in this course will work in Bridgeport schools for a minimum of 20 hours per semester to perform an 'educational service,' broadly defined and one that the community partners want to have happen. Activities have included working one-on-one with students in a tutorial or mentoring relationship, or working with afterschool clubs to enrich the learning of the Bridgeport students. In all cases, the personal, caring relationships developed remind the Bridgeport students of their potential to go on to post-secondary education. |
| Courses | Number | Professor | Description of Service/Projects |
| Senior Design Capstone | SW 550/551 | Yoo | Students will work on software related service project for and with the community. The project can be anything related to software from developing organization management software tools to setting up a wireless network to help the community. |