In Professor Sean Cleary's course, "The Autism Experience," students gain insights into autism from a public health perspective. Through service-learning and community participatory research methods, they engage with autistic young adults, their parents, researchers, clinicians, and service providers. The course explores the science, various viewpoints, and real-life experiences of autism, with a specific emphasis on the transition to adulthood for young adults. Working alongside community advocates, students delve into research that directly impacts the autistic community.

Professor: Sean Cleary

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Service Learning in Public Health by Prof. Sara Wilensky is a course where students connect significant community service experience to course work on social systems, health outcomes, and vulnerable populations. Examples of service sites include the Latin American Youth Center, Mary's Center, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Horton’s Kids, and Charlie's Place.

Professor: Sara Wilensky

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In this course, taught by Dr Erica Walls, students analyze how nonprofits/groups organize in pursuit of social justice/impact/change, examine strategies and tactics of social movements, identify provisions and gaps in U.S. social policy, and more.  Throughout the semester, the course covers relevant theory, history, and current events, and partnered with DC-area nonprofits to critically evaluate causes, effects, and potential solutions to poverty.

In teams, students serve with a DC-area nonprofit that combats an issue related to poverty.  The project required teams to work with the organization staff to design and implement an action plan to help meet their goals, track their time and progress, and share learning/experiences with others.  This work helped fulfill the course learning objectives and invited reflection on student's beliefs about civic responsibility and their sense of purpose in the world.

Students’ service informs a scholarly paper and presentation on the influences on social change, particularly with respect to addressing poverty. This work invites reflection on students’ beliefs about civic responsibility and sense of purpose in the world.

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This Human Interactions class by Professor Sangeeta Prasad observes human development from young adulthood to old age. Students study the dominant psychosocial, cognitive, and physical competencies; motivational changes; coping styles; and normative and non-normative behaviors of humans from young adulthood to old age. The course includes three hours per week of service learning in an appropriate agency setting. Some common organizations that students collaborate with include; Community of Hope, Horton's Kids and Our Stomping Ground.

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All entering first year and transfer undergraduate students are take UW 1020, which is a four-credit course. UW 1020 is designated as a pre-disciplinary course: the goal is to enable students to write effectively in various contexts, within the university and beyond. Dr. Barlow's course integrates the development of writing competencies in varying contexts with a direct or indirect service learning component centered around community based research and advocacy.

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In this service-learning class by Prof. Karina Lora, students deliver nutrition education using prepared lesson plans based on USDA MyPlate messages, and healthy food tastings to preschool-aged children living in undeserved urban areas in Washington DC. Students will increase their cultural competence with the groups served, advocacy, education and service to the community, reflect on current events related to food and nutrition issues affecting underserved populations in the US, and learn on community/school-based programs.  ...continue reading "EXNS 3120 Advanced Topics in EXNS"

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

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