CIVC101 Student Project Showcase

In many CIVC 101 sections, students develop a project around a social issue that they care about, learn and engage with that issue, and reflect on how their understanding of the issue has evolved. In sections utilizing a curriculum co-developed with the Pennoni Honors College, students work together in small groups to create a creative, public resource such as a mural, infographic, or webpage, about the social issue at the center of their project. 

 

 

Featured Projects

This showcase features a sampling of these student projects from CIVC 101 classes over the last several terms. We are so grateful for the students who truly dug into these projects and produced meaningful pieces, as well as all of the instructors and Course Assistants throughout the years that have taught the class and supported the students.

Many of the CIVC 101 murals are also on display at the Lindy Center—come by during our open hours to view them! 

Click on a project to see the full-size image.

Sustainability Mural
These students focused on environmental sustainability and the built environment, looking at ways architecture can both contribute and take away from sustainability.
A Communal Dream - Student Project Design
These students focused on income inequality and poverty. Their project is a Monopoly-style game board game that shows factors that contribute to poverty. 
Civic 101 Mural
This group was concerned with waste and the environment. Their project was a mural that shows contrasting worlds—one with heavy pollution and the other clean and flourishing. 
Civic 101 Mural
These students focused on issues of healthcare equity and were inspired to create this hand-drawn mural from our in-class discussion about the differences between equity, equality, and justice. [No text in field]
These students produced an infographic describing the issue of gender-based inequality.
These students produced an infographic describing the issue of plastic pollution.
The students who created this mural were concerned with access to mental health services and also the proliferation of AI.
This mural is about the dangers of overusing social media for young people. There were four group members and each designed one letter of the word “OKAY” to reflect their own relationship with social media. The background of the mural has several QR codes that lead to information about social media use and young people.
These students focused on global environmental destruction and disasters and wanted to show how environmental degradation impacts communities.
This mural focuses on educational inequality, including school funding, the pressure of grades and getting ahead, and disproportionate numbers of men and women in STEM education.

Student Project Highlight: Tri-fold Brochure

Septa Map Background
Barriers on the Road to Healthcare: Transportation Challenges in South Philadelphia

These students created a brochure about transportation challenges in South Philadelphia.

See Full Project

The inside part of the tri-fold brochure.
The outside part of the tri-fold brochure.

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