HSSJ 3100W Program Planning & Evaluation

tiffanygarcia3September 20, 2022July 9, 2024

In HSSJ 3100W: Program Planning and Evaluation, students partner with organizations like YWCA, Rock Creek Conservancy, and Horton's Kids to conduct real-world program evaluations. While providing data and analysis to help organizations improve programs, students gain practical skills in data collection (surveys, interviews, etc.), data analysis, meaning-making and reporting.

Community-serving organizations who partner with this course identify the program they would like students to evaluate, for example, do volunteers of this organization feel prepared by the orientation and training they receive, or is their parent involvement program achieving its goals? Students and community organization staff work together to clarify the research question and identify sources of data. With final approval from community partners, students develop data collection tools (surveys, interview or focus group protocols, etc.) and ultimately produce a written report which includes a relevant review of research literature, study findings, and recommendations.

This course challenges students, and they love realizing what they are capable of. Dr. Walls and Dr. Kelso prepare students for each step: creating the agenda for their first community partner site visit, practicing interviewing and focus group skills in class, and doing in-class peer review of multiple drafts of the final reports and presentations shared with their community partners. Students also learn project management techniques.

For information about Community Engaged Scholarship at GW: https://go.gwu.edu/cesc

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UW 1020: Writing Lives, Composing Consciousness and Service Learning

ritah.mageraMarch 18, 2022July 9, 2024

All entering students take UW 1020, a four-credit course to enable students to write effectively in various contexts, within the university and beyond. In Professor Pamela Presser's sections of this course, students seek to deepen their understanding of identity and composition of consciousness through service with organizations within the DC community. Students explore how service shapes their own identities. Students serve with many organizations including: Brotherhood Synagogue; City Gate, Inc.; Bread for the City; Francis on the Hill; Little Friends for Peace; Peace 4 Kids; Reading Partners; and the Smithsonian Transcription Center, etc.

For information about Community Engaged Scholarship at GW: https://go.gwu.edu/cesc

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GTCH 1002 Inquiry Based Lesson Design

wagnerwMay 27, 2021July 9, 2024Leave a comment

The GWTeach program by Prof. SuJin Choi prepares STEM majors for teaching licensure in Washington, DC. This course builds on the basics of teaching learned in GTCH 1001, with a focus on inquiry-based lesson design, teaching with technology, classroom management, and analyzing student performance data. Students partnered with teachers in local middle schools, designing and teaching a STEM lesson in a middle school classroom.

For information about Community Engaged Scholarship at GW:https://go.gwu.edu/cesc

TRDA 3131W

AlberoApril 22, 2021November 8, 2024Leave a comment

Professor Kanter's Community Engaged Scholarship course (CES), Theater for Social Change (TRDA 3131W), focuses on the efficacy of using the arts to address issues within our society. Through their theater knowledge and service to local organizations, students examine produced works of representative 20th and 21st century playwrights, which address violence against women, gender inequality, homophobia, racism, trauma of war, Nativism, religious discrimination, and other injustices that continue to impact our society.

Students, through their service with GW's Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Law School, and School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS), were able to enhance the techniques used by the playwrights by performing mock depositions, medical screenings, patient-provider therapy scenarios, and so forth.

For information about Community Engaged Scholarship at GW: https://go.gwu.edu/ces

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COMM 1041: Interpersonal Communication

KatzOctober 25, 2020July 9, 2024Leave a comment

Abbie Weiner’s "Interpersonal Communication" class gives undergraduates in the Columbian School of Arts and Science an opportunity to get a taste of Community Engaged Scholarship through connecting the principles of interpersonal communication and service. At the beginning of the semester, the students were given an option of three different organizations: Free Minds, the YWCA, and the Latino Student Fund. Virtually, each student will volunteer 10 total hours at their specific site of choice.