Community Based Learning Courses

Community Based Learning (CBL) is applied education that addresses a need in the community. It is a national movement that, though relatively new, many colleges are finding useful and adapted into their curriculum in one way or another. It concerns taking what is learned in the classroom and turning it into something students and faculty can see and touch and experience. Also, it helps meet community needs that would normally not be addressed at Oberlin College. It is divided into two categories: Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) and Community Based Research (CBR).

List of CBL Courses, 2006-2007

College of Arts & Sciences Courses:
AAST 281 Practicum in Tutoring (Mr. Booker Peek)
AAST 385 Black Pedagogy (Mr. Booker Peek)
ARTS 041 Art and the Environment (Ms. Nanette Yannuzzi-Macias)
BIOL 031 Health Careers Practicum (Ms. Yolanda Cruz, Ms. Mary Garvin)
CAST 301 Situated Research Practicum Meredith Raimondo
CAST 220 Native American Identities in Comparative Context (Ms. Annette Portillo)
EDUA 010 Spanish Teaching Practicum (Ms. Kim Faber)
ENVS 491 Practicum in Environmental Education (Ms. Cheryl Wolfe-Craigin)
ENVS 995 Private Reading: Nature, Culture, Pedagogy – Building an Outdoor Classroom (Ms. Beth Blissman)
FYSP 191 Social Justice in the United States (Mr. Pawan Dhingra)
FYSP 116 Field Based Writing: Ecology of the Vermillion River Watershed (Ms. Jan Cooper and Ms. Mary Garvin)
GAWS 301 Practicum in Gender and Women’s Studies (Ms. Diana Grossman Kahn)
GEO 188 Modern Field Techniques (Mr. Steve Wojtal)
HISP 311 Linguistics for Language Students (Ms. Kim Faber)
HIST 268 Oberlin History as American History (Ms. Carol Lasser)
POLT 411 Practicum in Policy Evaluation and Applied Research (Ms. Eve Sandberg)
PSYC 501 Practicum in Autism (Ms. Karen Sutton)
RELG 387 Seminar: Religion and U.S. Social Welfare Policy and Social Work Practice: A Historical Perspective (A.G. Miller)
RHET 481 Teaching and Tutoring Across the Disciplines / Community Academic Partnership Program (Mr. Len Podis and Ms. Laurie McMillin)
SOCI 125 Sociological Analysis of Society (Mr. Clovis White)
SOCI 348 Constructing Immigrant Communities (Mr. Pawan Dhingra)
SOCI 277 Race & Ethnic Relations (Mr. Clovis White)
SOCI 391 Practicum in Sociology (Individual Faculty)

Conservatory Courses:
MUED 101 Introduction to Music Education (Ms. Joanne Erwin)
MUED 102 Practicum in School Music Experiences (Ms. Peggy Bennett and Ms. Jody Kerchner)
MUED 201 Music for Exceptional Learners (Ms. Jody Kerchner)
MUED 206 Choral Methods (Ms. Jody Kerchner)
MUED 300 Teaching Music to Adolescents (Ms. Jody Kerchner)
MUED 301 / 303 Teaching Music to Children (Ms. Peggy Bennett)
MUED 400 Student Teaching and Seminar (Ms. Peggy Bennett)