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Past CBL Courses

Spring Term 2021-2022

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT-290	34500	Writers Room Experience	Kirsten Kaschock	Wednesday 11:00am-12:20am	Community-Based Learning
Course Description The Writers Room Experience builds community writing skills, with a particular emphasis on active listening, multi-modal storytelling, collaborative text production, and the processing of heterogeneous group experiences through field note-taking and reflective and recursive writing practices. This course is meant to be repeatable, and taken for variable credit (0-3) depending on the time commitment the student contracts for and their available credits.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS/Westphal	GST T380/URBS T580	34916/34865	Sanctuary Cities	Steve Dolph	Monday 6:00pm-8:50pm	Community-Based Learning
Course Description Historically associated with privately held enclosures within urban space (churches, homes, gardens), "sanctuary" is increasingly understood as a public practice that shapes public policy. This course explores the role of so-called "sanctuary cities" municipalities that limit their collaboration with (and sometimes openly defy) state and federal agencies within the bitter struggle to reform the US immigration system. We examine the historical records, interviews, legal statutes, executive orders, artistic projects, and literature that have shaped this contested issue, with particular focus on how cities at once activate and restrict the revolutionary potential of sanctuary.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS 261	31368	Prison, Society, & You	Cyndi Rickards	Thursday 1:00-3:50pm	Side-By-Side Course
Course Description This course utilizes the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program to explore the relationship between individuals and the prison system. The Inside-Out Exchange Program is an evolving set of projects that creates opportunities for dialogue between those on the outside and those on the inside of the nation’s correctional facilities. The program demonstrates the potential for dynamic collaborations between institutions of higher education and correctional institutions. Most importantly, through this unique exchange, Inside-Out, this course seeks to deepen the conversation and transform ways of thinking about crime and justice (Crabbe, Pompa, 2004)./

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Westphal	DSRE T580	35112	Aging and Design	June He	Tuesday 12:30pm-3:20pm	Community-Based Learning
Course Description This course invites you to engage in the co-design dialogue with older adults by collaborating in an interdisciplinary environment. Here we will explore how product design can positively impact the daily experience of older adults. We will compare different cultural contexts of aging in the world, study design thinking and process, practice empathic co-design methods, hone cross-generational communication skills, and investigate speculative design technologies in the future.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	ENG 395	33188	Creative Communities: Original Research on Writing at Drexel	Elizabeth Kimball	Wednesday 11:00am- 12:20 pm	Community Based Learning
Course Description This special topics course offers several compelling opportunities: 1) to experience the fun of archival research, locating and analyzing original historic documents and artifacts 2) research and write an academic article for possible publication in the undergraduate journal Young Scholars in Writing, and 3) grow in appreciation of our department¿s many connections with creative community writing in the present by connecting it to those who have come before us. While Drexel has been known as a science and engineering school, creative and diverse community work has also always been present, and can be located in archival sources from literary magazines to WKDU to the college catalog. In this class, we will work with Drexel archivists to learn about the theory and practice of archival research, and then develop our own research and writing projects about what we find. Our goal is explore how creative community writing has shaped our local context and created a legacy for our work today. This is a writing intensive course.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Pennoni	HNRS T380	35117	Community Development and Resilience	Ahaji Schreffler and Adam Zahn	Tuesday 6:30pm-9:20pm	Community Based Learning
Course Description Little Haiti: Community Development and Resilience is a hybrid course that introduces students to the issues and ethics of development, service, and civic engagement both domestically and abroad. Through a holistic lens, students will learn the impacts (both successes and failures) that development efforts can have on the communities they aim to serve. We will explore case studies from both Haiti (often referred to as the "Republic of NGOs") and Little Haiti, Miami, to learn about the importance of a community-driven approach as a model for sustainable development. Students will complete both online and synchronous class sessions, culminating in 4 days of experiential learning in Little Haiti, Miami, home of the largest Haitian Diaspora in the world during Week 9 of Spring Quarter. Students will interview Haitian leaders of best practice non-profit development organizations to learn through real life examples about the methods, challenges, and impact of a community based approach to development in our local communities and internationally. Due to the travel component, students must apply for the course here: https://studyabroad.drexel.edu/?go=HaitiCommunityDevelopment.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS 403-130	34690	Policing: Theory and Practice	Cyndi Rickards	Monday & Wednesday 2:00-3:50pm	Community-Based Learning
Course Description This is course examines contemporary issues in policing, representing a unique collaboration between the Department of Criminology and Justice Studies and the Drexel University Police Department. The course offers both a classroom component that grounds students in the academics of policing, as well as a Citizen Police Academy experience to teach certain aspects of policing through practice. Each week, students will study a policing topic in class and then participate in a simulated police activity hosted by Drexel police officers. These simulated activities include car stops, shoot-don't-shoot scenarios, responding to mass shooting events, and drug seizures. Ultimately, this course hopes to integrate two aspects of American policing that are typically separated: How we teach policing, and how we do policing.

Winter Term 2021-2022

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Lindy Center/Global Engagement	CIVC-T380	26429	Approaches to Social Change: Learn. Engage. Reflect.	Adam Zahn	M, W, F, 12-12:50pm	Community-Based Learning
Course Description This course expands on CIVC101 for students interested in further engaging with concepts such as positionality and proximity to communities, both local and global, as well as frameworks for understanding how to make social change. The course will utilize the Lindy Center's "learn, engage, and reflect" model to consider successes, challenges, and obstacles to engaging civically in an ever-changing, interconnected global context. Students will have the opportunity to engage in discussions and experiential activities around civic engagement and social issues with peers at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Students plan and develop a term project alongside their peers that integrates the academic and community-based knowledge acquired in their curriculum.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS-260	25150	Justice in Our Community	Cyndi Rickards	Monday 10:00am-11:50am (Recitation: Tuesday-Thursday at designated times)	Community-Based Learning
Course Description This course is a seminar style community-based learning course that will begin with an introduction to justice in urban communities and examine problems unique to cities. The will include class lectures and on-site work with our community partners at UConnect. The synthesis of scholarship and community classroom experience will provide a holistic lens in which to explore issues in our urban community. Topics include urban economies, access to education and health care, digital divides and crime. Students who take this course will also register for one recitation section of CJS 260 (Register with CRN: 13454).

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS 261	25150	Places of Justice	Cyndi Rickards	Tuesday 2:00pm-4:50pm	Community-Based Learning
Course Description We often debate the theory and praxis of justice and do not analyze the very places and spaces that encourage (or discourage) justice. Throughout this course students will practice justice by engaging with faculty, students, and community. This course will begin by analyzing classic and contemporary theories of justice. Upon the development of a theoretical foundation, students will explore and engage with the built environment and other social structures which support justice or create unjust places and practices. Topics include the built environment and infrastructure, climate, housing, education, and correctional facilities.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Westphal	URBS 601	23033	Civic Engagement and Participatory Methods	Andrew Zitcer and Susanna Gilbertson	Tuesday 6:30-9:20pm	Side-By-Side Course
Course Description In this Side-by-Side course, West Philadelphia residents learn alongside Drexel students in a mutually respectful environment. The purpose is to equip the participants with tools to live, thrive, and advocate for greater socioeconomic, and racial inclusion within a changing community. Over the course of ten sessions, students will gain awareness of themselves as leaders, learn how to work effectively in groups, and create shared community engagement projects. They will explores and examine how communities accomplish planned change through a number of models including community development, social planning, social action and public advocacy. /

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Pennoni Honors	HON-301	25657	Your Place in the World	Cyndi Rickards	Tuesday 5:00pm-7:50pm	Community-Based Learning
Course Description The health of our communities depends on democratic engagement and public participation. Individually, and as a society, we arguably have an obligation to engage in shaping our future and recognize a larger public purpose. Through this course, students will explore their discipline’s public purpose, reflect on their lived experience and future social impact. Throughout this course, students will reflect upon experiences that led them to their major by mapping their civic pathway, curricular experiences, and co-curricular engagement. We will explore concepts of being a citizen in society, and critically analyze the following questions: What does citizenship mean? What are your civic experiences and who are your role models? How can you make an impact on your community, discipline, workforce, or world?

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT 290	24841	Writers Room Experience	Kirsten Kaschock	Wednesday 11:00am- 12:20 pm	Community Based Learning
Course Description The Writers Room Experience builds community writing skills, with a particular emphasis on active listening, multi-modal storytelling, collaborative text production, and the processing of heterogeneous group experiences through field note-taking and reflective and recursive writing practices. This course is meant to be repeatable, and taken for variable credit (0-3) depending on the time commitment the student contracts for and their available credits.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT 315	23498	Writing for Social Change	Liz Kimball	Monday and Wednesday 12:30pm-1:50pm	Community Based Learning
Course Description Focusing on current social issues, students will explore the history and legacy of a particular social issue and learn from those working to change it. Students will write to reflect on the dimensions of change, practice with professional genres, and gather support to address the issue. This is a side-by-side, community- based learning course. Drexel students will work alongside staff from UESF, a Philadelphia organization committed to a holistic, preventive, and cost-efficient approach to assisting vulnerable families impacted by housing crises. Class meetings will be held in the UESF conference room at 1608 Walnut Street one day per week and on campus one day per week.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	PSCI T180-130	24695	Community Read	Amelia Hoover Green	Thursday 6:00-6:50pm	Community-Based Learning
Course Description Students, faculty, staff, and local community members will deeply read, and collectively discuss, a discuss a single important book about a social justice topic. Each week features a guest speaker about a topic related to the Community Read. REGISTRATION NOTE: Students may earn only 0 or 1 credit for this class. Any registrations for 1+ credits will be manually changed to 1.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CNHP	HSAD T480	25330	Philadelphia’s Black Doctors	Sharrona Pearl	Tuesday 3:00pm-5:50pm	Community Based Learning
Course Description This course is an amazing opportunity to work directly in the Mutter Museum¿s archives to curate a video or online exhibit of Philadelphia¿s Black Doctors in History. Students will gain hands-on experience working with primary sources in the museum¿s holdings to produce a final product that the museum will display online in their upcoming exhibit. The course will explore the history of Black doctors right here in Philadelphia while learning basic principles of museum display and curation. We will consider the structural inequalities these doctors faced and how that impacted the practice of medicine and the care of the city¿s Black community from the nineteenth century through the present.

Fall Term 2021-2022

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS-260	13453	Justice in Our Community	Cyndi Rickards	Tuesday 9:00am-10:50pm; Recitation Monday 10am-11:50am	Remote Synchronous
Course Description This course is a seminar style community-based learning course that will begin with an introduction to justice in urban communities and examine problems unique to cities. The will include class lectures and on-site work with our community partners at UConnect. The synthesis of scholarship and community classroom experience will provide a holistic lens in which to explore issues in our urban community. Topics include urban economies, access to education and health care, digital divides and crime. Students who take this course will also register for one recitation section of CJS 260 (Register with CRN: 13454).

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS 261	15540	Prison, Society and You	Cyndi Rickards	TBD	Online
Course Description This course utilizes the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program to explore the relationship between individuals and the prison system. The Inside-Out Exchange Program is an evolving set of projects that creates opportunities for dialogue between those on the outside and those on the inside of the nation’s correctional facilities. The program demonstrates the potential for dynamic collaborations between institutions of higher education and correctional institutions. Most importantly, through this unique exchange, Inside-Out, this course seeks to deepen the conversation and transform ways of thinking about crime and justice (Crabbe, Pompa, 2004).

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Westphal	FMST T30-001	15449	Climate Films and Advocacy	Benjamin Kalina and Elizabeth Watson	Friday 1:00pm-3:50pm	Special Topics Lecture
Course Description Students will examine global climate change and actions to address climate change through film, viewing films designed to entertain, inform, and advocate for taking action to address the climate crisis. Students will preview films, participate in, and help moderate panel discussions, and design and implement survey instruments to assess film impact. The course capstone project will be organizing a one-day film festival for the public focused on climate change to be held in November at the Academy of Natural Sciences. The course is being co-taught by a film professor whose work has focused on the environment and the climate crisis, and an environmental scientist whose research focuses on climate change impacts, and thus will include discussion of scientific content as well as film impact campaigns.td>

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Pennoni Honors	HON-315-001	15944	Just Cities	Cyndi Rickards	Monday 1:00pm-1:50pm and Tuesday 9:00am-10:50am	Hybrid
Course Description Americans, now more than ever, have been forced to reckon with a history of injustice which has manifest in broad structural inequality. Within this course we will explore the social structures, or agents of justice, (e.g.: employment, immigration, race, education, health care, housing) which support healthy communities or perpetuate injustice. Students will discern their position and place in our community ecosystem while engaging with course themes. Each week students will apply course material and connect with our global partners in Amsterdam to educate one another about our city’s state of justice. Students will compare the policies, applications of social justice in their communities and ultimately craft a social policy recommendation. This course offers students an opportunity to learn about our city, analyze issues of justice, and explore the lived experiences of those in our city. The relationship with our global partners provides not only an inter-cultural experience but, also an opportunity to gain the critical skill of developing different communication styles to work together effectively and respectfully in a diverse team.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	SPAN 340	15519	After Maria	Steve Dolph	Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00pm- 3:50 pm	Face to Face
Course Description The idea that modern environmental disasters are caused not by "natural" forces but rather by human actions took root after Hurricane Katrina, which permanently displaced tens of thousands of people--mostly poor people of color--from the lower Mississippi delta. After Katrina, public institutions like schools, hospitals, and utilities were haphazardly privatized in a process known as "disaster capitalism." This process was repeated when Hurricane María struck Puerto Rico in 2017, only now the effects were aggravated by the colonial status of an archipelago burdened by massive debt, predatory economic policies, and cynical austerity measures. This course will examine the aftermath of María in Puerto Rico--on the one hand as a byproduct of grotesque climate barbarism, and on the other as a transformative catalyst that has inspired a wave of grassroots political, environmental, and social justice movements, both on the island and in the global diaspora.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Pennoni Honors	HON 301-002	15958	Prison Reading Project	Casey Hirsch	Monday 2:00pm-4:50pm	Remote Synchronous
Course Description Throughout the term, we will explore the root and ongoing causes and harsh realities of mass incarceration in the U.S. Each week in our online class, we will reflect on various readings. We will also share and discuss relevant media that deepen our understanding of the troubling state of mass incarceration, as well as trends leading toward and away from criminal justice reform. Some weeks we will have speakers visit the classroom to tell us of their involvement in criminal justice. Weekly reflective writing and a final researched reflection on a relevant topic of your choice will make up the written part of the course.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Pennoni Honors	HON T380-130	16105	Little Haiti Community Development and Resilience	Adam Zahn and Ahaji Schreffler	TBD	Hybrid
Course Description Little Haiti: Community Development and Resilience is an Intensive-Course Abroad that introduces students to the issues and ethics of development, service, and civic engagement both domestically and abroad. Through a holistic lens, students will learn the impacts (both successes and failures) that development efforts can have on the communities they aim to serve. We will explore case studies from both Haiti (often referred to as the "Republic of NGOs") and Little Haiti, Miami, to learn about the importance of a community-driven approach as a model for sustainable development. Students will complete pre-travel online modules and class sessions, followed by experiential learning in Little Haiti, Miami, home of the largest Haitian Diaspora in the world. Students will gain an understanding of best practices in community-based development by interviewing Haitian leaders of best practice non-profit development organizations to learn through real life examples about the methods, challenges, and impact of a community based approach to development in our local communities and internationally. This course is an ICA, please visit the program page for further information: https://studyabroad.drexel.edu/index.cfm?.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Pennoni Honors	HON 301 001	15943	Storytelling and Social Impact	Helene Furjan	Mondays 7:00pm-9:50pm	Face to Face
Course Description This course looks at the intersection of digital storytelling and civic innovation, examining and testing the ways in which storytelling, as a “technology of the social,” can both document and catalyze impact. Civic innovation highlights active citizen-participation; it is a collaborative, community-informed approach to addressing hyperlocal challenges that leverages the resources and partnership of the university to empower communities to innovate for, and by, themselves. Student projects explore storytelling as a mechanism to create communication and knowledge-sharing, invite participation, and generate partnerships across constituencies, organizations, fields, and identities.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT 290- 001	14213	Writers Room Experience	Kristen Kaschock	Wednesdays 12:30pm-1:50pm	Face to Face
Course Description This studio course is a blend of seminar and field work. Students select their community writing experience from a number of Writers Room programs. You will build skills beyond the classroom, including active listening, storytelling, collaborative text production, and the processing of group experiences through field note-taking and reflective writing practices.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT 280- 001	16375	Writers Room Lab	Valerie Fox	Thursdays 6:00pm-6:50pm	Face to Face
Course Description This Community-Based Learning course is open to Drexel students and our neighbors. A single-credit laboratory, it attaches to courses with projects engaging in civic action and allows motivated students more time to integrate the knowledge from an academic class with community work. In collaboration with the Pennoni Honors College’s year-long Symposium on Aging, our Fall 2021 Lab will focus on cross-disciplinary artistic work to explore memories and meanings of home and life stages. We will avail ourselves of the collaborative opportunities that come with working with a multigenerational group of writers. You will also have the chance to explore your own genealogies through different genres or medium. Registration by instructor permission only.

Winter Term 2020-2021

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS-261	21924	Prison, Society, and You	Cyndi Rickards	Thursday 1:00pm-3:50pm	Remote Synchronous
Course Description This course aims to learn, reflect and engage with our history and systems of incarceration. Students will analyze who is imprisoned, the contemporary correctional experience while understanding the human experience and cost of incarceration. Students will engage with formerly incarcerated students, in an engaged learning environment as they learn about the criminal justice system and reflect on perceptions of prisons and of people both inside and outside of them.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS 303	26285	Applications of Justice	Doug Porpora	Tuesday and Thursday 3:30pm-4:50pm	Remote Synchronous
Course Description This course will explore the topic is justice as practiced in a criminal context. When we speak of criminal justice, what do we mean by justice? What are the ways in which our criminal justice system is and is not just and how does justice in a criminal context fit with our broader understandings of justice? Students will engage with formerly incarcerated students, in an engaged learning environment to learn about the criminal justice system as they reflect on perceptions of prisons and people in them.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT 215-001	22187	Story Medicine	Nomi Eve	Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am-12:20pm	Remote Synchronous
Course Description Story Medicine is a Community Engaged Learning Course in Fiction Writing and Imagination Pedagogy. Drexel students explore the question “what are the unique entertainment and enrichment needs of hospitalized children?” In weekly Zoom interviews, kids living with chronic illness help co-teach the class, parents of patients provide first hand-experience, and college-age cancer survivors help us understand their unique needs and perspective. Drexel Story Medicine students create YouTube videos, tik toks, and Instagram posts specifically for kids in hospitals, and write fiction for read-aloud stories in which characters with illness and disability take center stage. Students will also undertake self-reflective writing, and become active participants in building this course and the “Story Medicine Show” for future quarters.td>

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT-315-001	24991	Writing for Social Change	Elizabeth Kimball	Wednesday 6:00pm-8:50pm	Remote Synchronous
Course Description In Writing for Social Change, Drexel students will learn together with the staff of UESF, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families get out of poverty. We will consider the place of writing for social change from both a humanities and professional perspective. Our goal is to create a community composed of UESF staff and Drexel students that o builds empathy and human connection o increases expertise with writing as a tool for professional and public work o deepens understanding of philosophy and strategy of social change aimed at greater inclusion, prosperity, and equality.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Westphal	URBS 610	23660	Civic Engagement and Participatory Methods	Andrew Zitcer and Susanna Gilbertson	Mondays 6 – 8:50 pm	Remote Synchronous
Course Description This course examines the relationship between civic engagement, democratic participation and community change in urban settings. Students will gain awareness of themselves as leaders and members of a group. They will explore styles of facilitation, decision making in groups, and large and small forms of civic engagement. By the end of the course, students will be more competent and effective communicators, overcoming one of the largest shortcomings of contemporary urban practitioners. Students will discuss leadership in the context of consensus building – creating shared goals, negotiating on behalf of lay people and professional entities, facilitating community meetings and other decision-making forums, and the management of stakeholder expectations.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Westphal	DANCE 222-001	22746	Dance Pedagogy	Valerie Ifill	Thursdays 12:00pm-2:50pm	Remote Synchronous
Course Description This course partners with the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships’ dance programming for youth and families to apply methods and concepts learned win the course within the context of community dance classes. Students will explore the social and physical development of children as it relates to the teaching of dance. They will develop and practice a repertoire of techniques for teaching children and adults while contributing to community programming at a local partner organization.

Fall Term 2020-2021

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	COM376-900	12045	Nonprofit Communication	Lawrence Souder	Online	Online
Course Description All nonprofit organizations must develop and maintain effective communication strategies in order to survive in a competitive economy. Nonprofits have unique needs and limitations in their long-term goals and short-term operations that relate to communication. This course introduces students to the ways nonprofits communicate with both their constituents and their benefactors. Students will explore these two perspectives on nonprofit communication through a combination of readings about best practices, dialogues with local representatives in the nonprofit sector, and direct contact and work for a local nonprofit organization.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS 260	15533	Justice in Our Community	Cyndi Rickards	Monday, 10:00am-11:50am plus recitation	Global Classroom
Course Description This course is a seminar style community based learning course that will begin with an introduction to justice in urban communities and examine problems unique to cities. The will include class lectures and a shared classroom with a community partner in Amsterdam. The synthesis of scholarship and community classroom experience will provide a holistic lens in which to explore issues in our urban community. Topics include urban economies, access to education and health care, digital divides and crime. Students who take this course will also register for one recitation section of CJS 260.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT 215	12236	Story Medicine	Nomi Eve	Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am-12:20pm	Remote Learning
Course Description Story Medicine is a Community Engaged Learning Course in Fiction Writing and Imagination Pedagogy. Drexel students explore the question “what are the unique entertainment and enrichment needs of hospitalized children?” In weekly Zoom interviews, kids living with chronic illness help co-teach the class, parents of patients provide first hand-experience, and college-age cancer survivors help us understand their unique needs and perspective. Drexel Story Medicine students create YouTube videos, tik toks, and Instagram posts specifically for kids in hospitals, and write fiction for read-aloud stories in which characters with illness and disability take center stage. Students will also undertake self-reflective writing, and become active participants in building this course and the “Story Medicine Show” for future quarters.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Westphal	DANC 102	12844	Yoga	Jennifer Morley	Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00pm-1:20pm	Remote
Course Description The physical and intellectual study of the ancient practice of yoga. Includes both physical practice and readings related to the discipline, as well as a survey of a variety of forms of the practice. It will engage community participants from a local partner as students in the class to learn alongside Drexel students and consider the value of yoga from multiple perspectives and experiences.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CCI	INFO 546	15526	Data Analytics	Erjia Yan	Fridays, 9:00am-11:50am	Remote
Course Description This course utilizes in-class lectures and partnerships with a community small business or non-profit to assess the data and information needs of, design data-driven methods for, and proposal and/or develop sustainable data infrastructure to those community organizations. Through academic readings, in-class facilitation, and seminars, students will explore civic engagement, democratic participation and community change in urban settings. They will learn community information needs assessment, decision making, and information use, representation, and visualization. At the same time, students will identify a community small business or non-profit organization as their client and meet the client for two hours each week, working with community organizations in need of data analytics support.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Westphal	PRFA 100	12101	Community Arts Performance Practice: Dance at the Dornsife	Ama Gora	M, 4:30-6:30pm; W, 1:30-5:30pm	Remote
Course Description These CBL courses are hosted at the Dornsife Center. Drexel students teach music and dance to the local Philadelphia community, specifically the Mantua and Powelton residents. This course is great for students looking to expand their teaching skills within the art of music and dance. All materials for community participants and student teachers are provided.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Westphal	PRFA 100	12101	Community Arts Performance Practice: Dance at the Dornsife	Ama Gora	T, 4:30-6:30pm; Th, 4:30-6:30pm	Remote
Course Description These CBL courses are hosted at the Dornsife Center. Drexel students teach music and dance to the local Philadelphia community, specifically the Mantua and Powelton residents. This course is great for students looking to expand their teaching skills within the art of music and dance. All materials for community participants and student teachers are provided.

Spring Term 2019-2020

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	ENG 103	30850	Once upon a Lifetime (So Far...)	Cassandra Hirsch	Wednesday 1:20pm-3:50pm and online work as needed	Kirkbride Rehabilitation Center
Course Description Each of us has a story to tell. Yet, people don’t often go out of their way to exchange ideas with strangers, or to sit next to one another in a room for the express purpose of that exchange – particularly when each group occupies a vastly different space in their everyday lives. In this Side-By-Side course, we will strive to put aside our preconceptions of each other as we read selected works of memoir, engage in analysis of these works, and together learn the craft of writing memoir in order that we might learn about ourselves and our peers. The focus of this course will be to stimulate conversation, writing, and the cultivation and exchange of both. All readings will inspire and instruct as we engage in the writing process. Drexel students will write in class with Kirkbride residents, and independently between class meetings at Kirkbride, contributing both informal writing on the Discussion Board and crafting three writing projects. The course will culminate in a collection authored by all participants, each writing about themselves. Where anonymity is required, it will be respected. *Students will meet on Wednesdays at Drexel and travel together to Kirkbride. Travel time to and from Kirkbride is included in class time as noted above.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	ENG 323-001	35033	Storytelling Through Mural Arts	Gabriella Ibieta	Mondays 2:00pm-4:30pm	Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships
Course Description This course focuses on Mural Arts Philadelphia (MAP), a world-renown cultural resource of our city. Approximately 3,000 murals across our different neighborhoods tell the stories of our communities in exciting and engaging ways. Murals also tell stories about individuals and their families and about significant events in their histories, creating public art sites of intersection between the personal and the political. In this course we will research the context of a series of murals in Powelton Village, Mantua, and West Philadelphia; explore the process of community and artistic collaboration that produced them; and participate in several activities, such as a Paint Day and a Mural Unveiling Ceremony. Students will learn about MAP through assigned readings, their own exploration of murals around the city, and individual and group research projects and presentations. Another component of the course will be our own storytelling: students will be asked to interpret the stories the murals tell, to make connections to their personal histories and to tell and write their own stories. Format: Drexel and community students will work in pairs and also in groups of 4-5; PowerPoint lectures; films; group discussions; in-class writing.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS-T380-002	25607	The Practice of Justice	Gregory Albright	Thursdays 1:00pm-4:00pm	Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility
Course Description This is an Inside-Out course, conducted at the State Detention Center where Drexel students will co-learn with detention residents. The topic is justice as practiced in a criminal context. When we speak of criminal justice, what do we mean by justice? What are the ways in which our criminal justice system is and is not just and how does justice in a criminal context fit with our broader understandings of justice? Discussing these questions in a detention center with residents there, the perspectives of both insiders and outsiders will be altered.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS 260A	22355 + Recitation (22356-60)	Justice in Our Community	Cyndi Rickards	Mondays 10:00am-12:00pm + Recitation T,W or TH	Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships
Course Description This course is a community-based learning course that will begin with an introduction to our local community and examine problems unique to cities. The majority of our instructional time will take place with our community partner. The synthesis of scholarship and community classroom experience will provide a holistic leans in which to explore issues in our urban community. Topics include: urban economies, access to education and health care, information justice, race and crime. Students meet for two hours in the classroom and work as Navigators at the Dornsife Center T, W or TH from 1-3 or 3-5. You will need to choose one shift to work each week, which will appear as a recitation on your schedule.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS 261-001	12700	Prison, Society and You	Cyndi Rickards	Thursday 1:00pm-4:00pm	Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility
Course Description This course utilizes the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program to explore the relationship between individuals and the prison system. The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program is an evolving set of projects that creates opportunities for dialogue between those on the outside and those on the inside of the nation’s correctional facilities. The program demonstrates the potential for dynamic collaborations between institutions of higher education and correctional institutions. Most importantly, through this unique exchange, Inside-Out and this course seek to deepen the conversation- and transform ways of thinking about crime and justice (Crabbe, Pompa, 2004). At the most basic level, this course and program allows students to go behind the walls to reconsider what they have learned about crime and justice, while those on the inside are encouraged to place their life experiences in a larger framework. Students will exchange ideas and perceptions about crime and justice, the criminal justice system, corrections and imprisonment. It is a chance for all participants to gain a deeper understanding of the criminal justice system through the marriage of theoretical knowledge and practical experience achieved by weekly meetings and extended throughout the semester (Crabbe, Pompa, 2004).

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT 215-001	12694	Story Medicine	Nomi Eve	Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am-12:20pm	CHOP
Course Description This is a Community Based Learning Course in Fiction Writing and Collaborative Creative Processes. Students go to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to perform in the Ryan Seacrest T.V. studio. Drexel Students write, perform and produce live shows for patients. Students will always use a teleprompter, so no memorization is necessary. Students regularly interact with patients who come down to participate in the Story Medicine show. All writing exercises are suitable for beginning and intermediate fiction writers. Ultimately, students will undertake self-reflective writing, and become active participants in building this course for future quarters.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT 315	34331	Writing for Social Change	Eizabeth Kimball	Friday 1:00pm-3:50pm	UESF- a housing stabilization organization
Course Description In Writing for Social Change, Drexel students will learn together with the staff of UESF, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families get out of poverty. We will consider the place of writing for social change from both a humanities and professional perspective. Our goal is to create a community composed of UESF staff and Drexel students that o builds empathy and human connection o increases expertise with writing as a tool for professional and public work o deepens understanding of philosophy and strategy of social change aimed at greater inclusion, prosperity, and equality.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Westphal	WEST T380 Undergraduate	35406	Sanctuary Cities: Practice and Policy 1980-2020	Steve Dolph	Monday 6:00pm-8:50pm	TDB
Course Description Historically associated with privately held enclosures within urban space (churches, homes, gardens), “sanctuary” is increasingly understood a public practice that shapes public policy. This course will explore the role of so-called “sanctuary cities”—municipalities that limit their collaboration with (and sometimes openly defy) state and federal agencies—within the bitter struggle to reform the US immigration system. We will examine the historical records, interviews, legal statutes, executive orders, artistic projects, and literature that have shaped this contested issue, with particular focus on how cities at once activate and restrict the revolutionary potential of sanctuary. This course is cross-listed for both GRADUATE and UNDERGRADUATE students. *If you are a Graduate student, the Course # is URBS T580 and CRN is 34201.

Winter Term 2019-2020

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	BIO-305	25922	Mobilizing the Scientific Method	Karen Kabnick and Magdalene Moy	Monday 4:00pm-5:50pm and Friday 1:00pm-2:50pm	PISB 214
Course Description Students in Bio 305, a Community-Based Learning course, will learn cooperatively with local high school students who will come to Drexel campus weekly. Drexel students will work with instructors to develop approaches to ask and answer scientific questions. Drexel students will then guide high school partners using a mentor-teacher model. We will use fast plants as our model organism to ask questions with controlled experiments, collect and interpret data, draw conclusions and redesign experiments based on those results. The goal of this course is to encourage collaborative learning through experimentation and mentoring.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS 260A	22355 + Recitation (22356-60)	Justice in Our Community	Cyndi Rickards	Mondays 10:00am-12:00pm + Recitation T,W or TH	Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships
Course Description This course is a community-based learning course that will begin with an introduction to our local community and examine problems unique to cities. The majority of our instructional time will take place with our community partner. The synthesis of scholarship and community classroom experience will provide a holistic leans in which to explore issues in our urban community. Topics include: urban economies, access to education and health care, information justice, race and crime. Students meet for two hours in the classroom and work as Navigators at the Dornsife Center T, W or TH from 1-3 or 3-5. You will need to choose one shift to work each week, which will appear as a recitation on your schedule.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS 261-001	12700	Prison, Society and You	Cyndi Rickards	Thursday 1:00pm-4:00pm	Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility
Course Description This course utilizes the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program to explore the relationship between individuals and the prison system. The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program is an evolving set of projects that creates opportunities for dialogue between those on the outside and those on the inside of the nation’s correctional facilities. The program demonstrates the potential for dynamic collaborations between institutions of higher education and correctional institutions. Most importantly, through this unique exchange, Inside-Out and this course seek to deepen the conversation- and transform ways of thinking about crime and justice (Crabbe, Pompa, 2004). At the most basic level, this course and program allows students to go behind the walls to reconsider what they have learned about crime and justice, while those on the inside are encouraged to place their life experiences in a larger framework. Students will exchange ideas and perceptions about crime and justice, the criminal justice system, corrections and imprisonment. It is a chance for all participants to gain a deeper understanding of the criminal justice system through the marriage of theoretical knowledge and practical experience achieved by weekly meetings and extended throughout the semester (Crabbe, Pompa, 2004).

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	COM 230-015	26036	Public Speaking for Civic Engagement	Lawrence Souder	Thursdays 2:00pm-5:00pm	Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships
Course Description Civic engagement requires all citizens to share ideas with others by speaking publicly about important issues. This course is designed to help you become a better speaker, and thus a better citizen. In addition to advancing personal communication skills, students will learn and practice some ways to help their fellow citizens and community. By being enrolled in this special, side-by-side section of COM320, students will be part of a collaboration between students and faculty at Drexel and long-time members of the University’s neighboring communities who have made a difference by "speaking out." Students who successfully complete the course will be able to prepare and deliver speeches in a variety of public settings, critique speeches delivered by others, have the confidence and skills necessary for civic engagement, and understand what it means to be a good citizen. .

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS-T380-002	25607	The Practice of Justice	Douglas V Porpora	Thursdays 1:00pm-4:00pm	Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility
Course Description This is an Inside-Out course, conducted at the State Detention Center where Drexel students will co-learn with detention residents. The topic is justice as practiced in a criminal context. When we speak of criminal justice, what do we mean by justice? What are the ways in which our criminal justice system is and is not just and how does justice in a criminal context fit with our broader understandings of justice? Discussing these questions in a detention center with residents there, the perspectives of both insiders and outsiders will be altered.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Westphal	URBS 610	25463	Civic Engagement and Participatory Methods	Andrew Zitcer and Susanna Gilbertson	Mondays 6 – 8:50 pm	TBD
Course Description This course examines the relationship between civic engagement, democratic participation and community change in urban settings. Students will gain awareness of themselves as leaders and members of a group. They will explore styles of facilitation, decision making in groups, and large and small forms of civic engagement. By the end of the course, students will be more competent and effective communicators, overcoming one of the largest shortcomings of contemporary urban practitioners. Students will discuss leadership in the context of consensus building – creating shared goals, negotiating on behalf of lay people and professional entities, facilitating community meetings and other decision-making forums, and the management of stakeholder expectations.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT 215-001	22693	Story Medicine	Nomi Eve	Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am-12:20pm	CHOP
Course Description This is a Community Based Learning Course in Fiction Writing and Collaborative Creative Processes. Students go to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to perform in the Ryan Seacrest T.V. studio. Drexel Students write, perform and produce live shows for patients. Students will always use a teleprompter, so no memorization is necessary. Students regularly interact with patients who come down to participate in the Story Medicine show. All writing exercises are suitable for beginning and intermediate fiction writers. Ultimately, students will undertake self-reflective writing, and become active participants in building this course for future quarters.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT 305-130	22694	Life Is Beautiful	Ken Bingham	Thursday 3:30pm-4:50pm, additional online hours required	TBD
Course Description This community partnership course links memoir with life, story-telling, and dying. Specifically, the course partners students with local hospice patients to co-create a life-story for the patient and his or her family. Students learn interviewing, listening, and writing techniques as well as skills in analysis and presentation. Additionally, the course facilitates interactions with the community and helps students to see themselves as linked to a community outside of college.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Pennoni Honors College	HNRS 302-001	26141	Oral History and Memory	Jen Ayres	Mondays 2:30pm-4:30pm	TBD
Course Description In this Hybrid CBL course, Drexel students will be learning about community archives and learning about the qualitative research method of Oral History. Why community archives? As Jeannette Allis Bastian urgently reminds us, “A community without its records is a community under siege, defending itself, its identity, and its version of history without a firm foundation on which to stand” (2003). It is of vital importance to get the experiences and lived realities of marginalized members of American society entered into the historical record before these accounts are lost. Community-Based-Learning classes offer students the opportunity to engage with their peers and different members of the community who they might not get to meet and interact with in everyday life. Every other week we will visit the John C. Anderson Apartments senior living facility in downtown Philadelphia, to get to know the residents, discuss issues pertinent to their communities, and conduct a series of interviews. Students will generate collaborative final projects that address themes that emerge out of their interviews and these creative final projects will be shared with the senior residents. Ultimately, students will create public scholarship and community knowledge about lesser known Philadelphia histories and our course will serve as a memorial to the elders’ legacies.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	PSCI T380	26262	Urban Citizenship	Richardson Dilworth	Thursday 6:00pm-8:50pm	TBD
Course Description In this class we will examine the intertwined histories and future trajectories of citizenship and cities, using Philadelphia and its constitution (the home rule charter) as our primary case study. "Citizenship" generically refers to membership in a political community and is most often associated with nations; yet as its etymology suggests the term originally referred more often to membership in city states. Today, a new notion of urban citizenship has emerged as an attempt to explain how many cities struggle with political identities distinct from their host nations (and in the US, their host states), and the roles many cities play as semi-autonomous command centers for the global economy.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	PSCI T380	25467	Disaster and Resilience: Puerto Rico	Steve Dolph	December 14-21	Puerto Rico
Course Description This intensive CBL course and weeklong permaculture workshop examines critical resource infrastructure on the island of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Centered on a weeklong workshop at Plenitud, permaculture demonstration farm in Las Marias, this intensive Community-Based Learning (CBL) course is designed to support an ongoing rainwater harvesting outreach project in the municipality of Añasco. From December 14th-21st, 2019, students work side-by-side with local facilitators and community leaders to develop, implement, and document the installation and maintenance of rainwater collection systems designed by the educators at Plenitud. This hands-on community-based workshop is supplemented by pre-departure training, local site visits, and daily lectures on permaculture design, island ecology, and environmental resilience. PLEASE NOTE: this class is already filled.

Fall Term 2019-2020

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Westphal	DANC 102-004	15661	Yoga Philosophy and Practice	Jennifer Morley	Monday and Wednesday 12:00pm-1:20pm	Kirkbride
Course Description This unique course format brings college students and community residents or organizations together in a yoga class taught by a member of the Drexel dance faculty. The primary objective of this class is to utilize our emerging yoga practice as a tool to come together in a mutually respectful learning environment. Students experience basic mindfulness practices including meditation and breath techniques. Participants will utilize these mindfulness practices as the foundation of our physical yoga practice. Each class will include either deep relaxation or a dialogue to share experiences and perspectives. No prior yoga experience necessary.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAs	BIO T280-001	15960	Connections in Life Sciences	Monica Togna	Monday and Wednesday 3:30pm-4:50pm	Alain Locke Elementary
Course Description Connections in Life Sciences is a new open enrollment course designed and intended to allow students to build connections with fundamental biology and their community which together will develop their future professional and personal pursuits. Each week a new insight into genetics that ranges from plants to the human brain will give students the opportunity to learn and to share that knowledge with the Philadelphia community. The course is designed on the Community Based Learning platform (CBL) and is scheduled to meet twice a week: one meeting will be a formal lecture on campus and one meeting will be at a partnered elementary school with the instructor and Drexel students leading an 8 week after school science club. Course assignments focus on taking a particular concept or skill learned in one of our Drexel courses, connecting it to the lesson demonstrated at the elementary school that week, researching real world applications of that technique, and identifying careers which would utilize that technique or concept. Students will gain an introduction to civic engagement, benefit from community based learning practices and connect their Drexel course material to the bigger picture in their lives.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	CJS 261-001	12700	Prison, Society and You	Cyndi Rickards	Thursday 1:00pm-4:00pm	Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility
Course Description This course utilizes the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program to explore the relationship between individuals and the prison system. The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program is an evolving set of projects that creates opportunities for dialogue between those on the outside and those on the inside of the nation’s correctional facilities. The program demonstrates the potential for dynamic collaborations between institutions of higher education and correctional institutions. Most importantly, through this unique exchange, Inside-Out and this course seek to deepen the conversation- and transform ways of thinking about crime and justice (Crabbe, Pompa, 2004). At the most basic level, this course and program allows students to go behind the walls to reconsider what they have learned about crime and justice, while those on the inside are encouraged to place their life experiences in a larger framework. Students will exchange ideas and perceptions about crime and justice, the criminal justice system, corrections and imprisonment. It is a chance for all participants to gain a deeper understanding of the criminal justice system through the marriage of theoretical knowledge and practical experience achieved by weekly meetings and extended throughout the semester (Crabbe, Pompa, 2004).

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Pennoni Honors College	HON 302-001	16024	Places of Justice	Cyndi Rickards	Mondays 2pm-4:50pm	Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships
Course Description We often debate the theory and praxis of justice and do not analyze the very places and spaces that encourage (or discourage) justice. Throughout this course students will practice justice by engaging with faculty, students, and community. This course will begin by analyzing classic and contemporary theories of justice. Upon the development of a theoretical foundation, students will explore and engage with the built environment and other social structures which support justice or create unjust places and practices. Topics include the built environment and infrastructure, climate, housing, education, the economy and correctional facilities.This is a Side-by-Side course and will be comprised of half Drexel students and half community students. Collectively the two groups of students will utilize their life experiences to inform and create definitions of justice. The goal of this course is to create its own place of justice in education.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	COM 376-900	12425	Nonprofit Communication	Lawrence Souder	Online	Online
Course Description All nonprofit organizations must develop and maintain effective communication strategies in order to survive in a competitive economy. Nonprofits have unique needs and limitations in their long-term goals and short-term operations that relate to communication. This course introduces students to the ways nonprofits communicate with both their constituents and their benefactors and the ways researchers have examined these practices. Students will explore these two perspectives on nonprofit communication through a combination of scholarly readings, dialogues with local representatives in the nonprofit sector, and direct contact and work for a local nonprofit organization. This course articulates with the content and goals of other courses in the Department of Communication, specifically COM280 (Public Relations), COM220 (Qualitative Research Methods), COM282 (Public Relations Writing), COM286 (Public Relations Strategies and Tactics), COM675 (Grant Writing for the Arts and Humanities), and COM680 (Public Relations Writing and Strategies). Questions of interest are: What is the nature of a nonprofit organization? How are nonprofit organizations governed? Who are the various stakeholders in a nonprofit’s community? What particular and unique kinds of formal communications do nonprofits engage in?

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	PHIL 105-006	11132	Critical Reasoning	Stacey Ake	Thursdays 12:30pm-3:20pm	Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility
Course Description Critical Reasoning introduces and develops the skills involved in reasoning effectively about experience, and being able to distinguish strong arguments from weak ones. This course utilizes the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. Drexel students will travel each week to the jail to meet with the other half of the class, men who are incarcerated. Collectively, Drexel and incarcerated students will learn critical reasoning as colleagues for the ten-week term.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	WRIT 215-001	12694	Story Medicine	Nomi Eve	Tuesday and Thursday 11:00am-12:20pm	CHOP
Course Description This is a Community Based Learning Course in Fiction Writing and Collaborative Creative Processes. Students go to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to perform in the Ryan Seacrest T.V. studio. Drexel Students write, perform and produce live shows for patients. Students will always use a teleprompter, so no memorization is necessary. Students regularly interact with patients who come down to participate in the Story Medicine show. All writing exercises are suitable for beginning and intermediate fiction writers. Ultimately, students will undertake self-reflective writing, and become active participants in building this course for future quarters.

Summer Term 2018-2019

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	BIO T280-001	42164	Science of Science Fiction	Susan Gurney	Thursdays 1pm-3:50pm	Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility
Course Description Do you watch science fiction films or tv shows or read science fiction books and wonder about the science which underpins the plot? Want to reflect on the scientific themes, while also considering social justice and the impact on society? Through class discussions, including incarcerated men at the Curren-Fromhold Correctional Facility, we will review these issues through a scientific lens. Prior knowledge of science fiction is not required, just a curiosity in this genre and a willingness to participate in this unique course. Different forms of science fiction media (film, tv shows, comics and stories) will be analyzed during this course.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
CoAS	PHIL 105-002	41826	Critical Reasoning	Stacey E. Ake	Tuesdays 5:00pm-7:30pm	Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships
Course Description This course will introduce and develop students' thinking skills as well as examine those things that impede our thinking clearly. It will help give students the ability to distinguish strong arguments from weak ones, identify points of vulnerability in reasoning as well as the value and reality assumptions that lie behind our everyday thoughts and actions. Students will learn to recognize logical fallacies and understand the difference between deductive and inductive arguments. Other topics include defense mechanisms and syllogistic arguments. The main theme of the course will be race in America.

College	Course #	CRN	Course Title	Instructor	Date/Time	Location
Pennoni Honors College	HON 302-005	42678	Fashion and Memory	Jennifer Ayres	Wednesdays 2pm-4:50pm	Mantua Presbyterian Apartments
Course Description In this 10-week Summer course, students will investigate their personal and collective relationships to fashion through readings and film screenings, as well as hands-on visits to Drexel's Fox Historic Costume Collection, archive appointments, and museum visits. Students will partner with community members and learn the basics of conducting interviews for oral history research methods and techniques. Following the groundbreaking fashion blog Advanced Style as inspiration, students will generate a collaborative blog, as a class, documenting their findings in the archive and interviews in order to create public scholarship and community knowledge about how fashion has impacted the lives of everyday people in Philadelphia and beyond. The summer course meets Wednesdays 2-4:50pm from Jun 26th- Aug 28th.