2018-2019 Faculty Fellows for Community Based Learning

Through experiential learning techniques and engagement with written course materials, students will learn how to use anthropological methodologies to investigate social problems, and to consider how anthropological theories and methods can be applied to positively impact society. Students will learn the tenets of community-based research, develop a set of research questions and methodologies in collaboration with a community partner, and will gain skills in working as a group to apply...

Through experiential learning techniques and engagement with written course materials, students will learn how to use anthropological methodologies to investigate social problems, and to consider how anthropological theories and methods can be applied to positively impact society. Students will learn the tenets of community-based research, develop a set of research questions and methodologies in collaboration with a community partner, and will gain skills in working as a group to apply...

This grant expands, deepens, and institutionalizes the scope and reach of The Literacy Practicum where undergraduate students work with community partners to provide literacy support to elementary school children learning to read as well as language support to people of all ages who are learning English. It expands and institutionalized the Literacy Practicum from one course to three. It deepens the practicum by providing more resources, expands mentorship support and...

This grant expands, deepens, and institutionalizes the scope and reach of The Literacy Practicum where undergraduate students work with community partners to provide literacy support to elementary school children learning to read as well as language support to people of all ages who are learning English. It expands and institutionalized the Literacy Practicum from one course to three. It deepens the practicum by providing more resources, expands mentorship support and...

This grant expands, deepens, and institutionalizes the scope and reach of The Literacy Practicum where undergraduate students work with community partners to provide literacy support to elementary school children learning to read as well as language support to people of all ages who are learning English. It expands and institutionalized the Literacy Practicum from one course to three. It deepens the practicum by providing more resources, expands mentorship support and...

Students in this course work with community partners to design and implement a research project using field-based qualitative methods. Partners include Meals on Wheels, Thistle Communities, Maria Rogers Oral History Project, and the City of Boulder-Housing Division. This co-created qualitative research will assist these community organizations to better understand working on housing affordability and related issues. It will give students an opportunity to develops skills and a nuanced understanding of...

Students in this course work with community partners to design and implement a research project using field-based qualitative methods. Partners include Meals on Wheels, Thistle Communities, Maria Rogers Oral History Project, and the City of Boulder-Housing Division. This qualitative research will assist these community organizations to better understand working on housing affordability and related issues. It will give students an opportunity to develops skills and a nuanced understanding of the...

This project expands the existing Wrongful Convictions (Law 7079-801) by adding a practicum where students, through the Korey Wise Innocence Project (KWIP) and other community partners, work on actual innocence cases. The learning objectives throughout the course will focus on exposing root causes of wrongful convictions. Students will analyze and discuss the substantive law and remedies associated with wrongful convictions, paths to exoneration and compensation. Topics will include mistaken eyewitness...

This project expands the existing Wrongful Convictions (Law 7079-801) by adding a practicum where students, through the Korey Wise Innocence Project (KWIP) and other community partners, work on actual innocence cases. The learning objectives throughout the course will focus on exposing root causes of wrongful convictions. Students will analyze and discuss the substantive law and remedies associated with wrongful convictions, paths to exoneration and compensation. Topics will include mistaken eyewitness...