Building Communities

INTG-401 Citizenship: Building Communities
Instructor: Steven Buban

This course investigates the concepts of community, civic engagement, social capital, and the like, through study of classic statements (deToqueville, Democracy in America) as well as contemporary studies (Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community). As students engage in academic study of these concepts, they will simultaneously involve themselves in the local community through community-based research.

Some of the projects that students in the course undertook in the spring of 2007 included:
-getting Monmouth College students to donate or sell items to the Warren Achievement Center's e-business
-creating a needs assessment questionaire for the Jamieson Community Center
-creating an instrument to evaluate the YMCA's "Y Loser" program
-helping the Strom Center with tax preparation training and collecting the center's grant information
-researching pastoral counseling programs for Starting Point
-aiding Prarie State Legal Services' outreach to Warren County residents, especially senior citizens
-researching food-borne illnesses and lead contamination for Warren County Public Health
-aiding Red Cross outreach to Warren County and creating a Red Cross flier
-helping the Buchanan Center for the Arts with outreach, especially to the Latino community

Please contact Steve Buban at steve@monm.edu or at 457-2185 with any questions regarding the course.

In the spring of 2009, this course will meet on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 2 p.m.

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