Service Learning
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Many people learn best by practicing new skills. Most of us, I believe, also perform at our best when we are doing work for others. Service-learning offers students and faculty members the opportunity to deeply engage with questions and knowledge production through conducting a meaningful project for a community partner. I teach several SL classes at the undergraduate and graduate level that employ the "research consultant model."
Several of the service learning courses and their "products" are listed below. Scrappy the Food Waste Mascot in the image to the right was developed as part of a Food Waste public education campaign package the graduate FS 350 Food Systems Immersion graduate students made in Spring 2016. |
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Fall 2022
Qualitative Research Methods GEOG 186 SL Partner: City of Burlington Reparations Task Force Project: Racially-Based Housing Covenants in Burlington: Assessing the Evidence. Spring 2020
Qualitative Research Methods for Sustainability Studies HCOL 86 SU SL Partners: Grand Isle-Franklin County Community Action and Northwest Regional Planning Commission Project: Food Access in Franklin County (contact C. Morse for other reports on food provisioning services in Franklin County) Fall 2018
Place, Landscape and Environment in Vermont/Earth and Environment Scholars Program GEOG 61 SL Partner: Chittenden Solid Waste District Project: "Drop-Off Center Improvement Plans" Spring 2017
Geography of Vermont/Integrated Studies of Earth and Environment GEOG 61 Partner: Greensboro Planning Commission Project: "Working in Greensboro: An Assessment of Housing, Quality of Life, and Transportation" Fall 2016
Vermont Field Studies GEOG 192 Partners: Burlington Geographic / Brian Reed, UVM Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning Project 1: "Evaluation of Burlington Geographic's Public Lecture Series" Project 2: "Student Experiences of Classroom Spaces Across the University of Vermont Campus" Spring 2016 Food Systems Immersion Seminar FS 350 SL Partner: Vermont Land Trust Project: "Conserving Community Working Landscapes: History, Identity, and Access to Land" Preparation of three conservation case studies, a professional development training for VLT staff, and a presentation to a national group of land trust leaders Spring 2015 Food Systems Immersion Seminar FS 350 SL Partner: Food Waste Leaders in Vermont Project: "Communicating Universal Recycling to Vermonters" Spring 2014 Food Systems Immersion Seminar FS 350 SL Partner: UVM's Bailey-Howe Library On-Line Exhibit: "Working the Landscape: Vermont's Fields, Forests and Trails" Fall 2013 Vermont Field Studies GEOG 192 SL Partner: UVM's Jericho Research Forest Project: "A Living Museum: A Geographic Analysis of the Values, Uses, and Meanings of UVM's Jericho Research Forest" |
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