The descriptions below highlight the academic civic engagement component of each class. Please check the Academic Catalog for complete course descriptions and prerequisites.
On-Campus
Education
EDUC 270 Exploring Teaching
Instructor: Jill Watson
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This course provides full-time placement in a school setting for students wanting to explore a career in teaching or gain greater understanding of teaching as a profession. Directed by host teachers, students may observe, assist within the classroom, tutor, teach, coach, attend faculty meetings and functions, and meet with school personnel. Students attend weekly seminars and complete assigned readings and reflective writings. Offered alternate January Terms, odd years. Counts as the January Term requirement for the TEFL certificate education concentration.
ACE Component: TBD
Kinesiology
KINES 295 Internship and Reflection Seminar
Instructor: Matt Neuger
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This seminar integrates the liberal arts with the experience of work and the search for a vocation or career. Course content will include both an off-campus internship and on-campus class sessions that connect academic theories/analyses of work with their particular internship experience. Students will also consider and articulate the value of the liberal arts for their pursuit of a creative, productive, and satisfying professional life. Offered during Interim.
ACE Component: Students complete internships at various sites in non-profit and for-profit healthcare and wellness settings.
Music
MUSIC 245 Music and Social Justice
Instructor: TBD
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TBD
ACE Component: TBD
Sociology/Anthropology
SOAN 121 Intro to Sociology (Race Matters)
Instructor: David Schalliol
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This course helps students explore the connections between society and their own lives. Students answer challenging questions such as “Do we have a ‘human nature’?,” “Why does social inequality exist?,” “What is race?,” and “How do societies change?” In answering these questions students learn to develop a sociological imagination. In doing so they review the various research methods and theories that form the sociological tradition. This course is open to first-year students or students in certain accredited programs.
ACE Component: TBD
Off-Campus ACE January Terms
*Applications for off-campus January Terms are due by April 13, 2023 through the International and Off-Campus Studies online application system. Additional applications can be made if seats as seats are available in open courses.
Education
EDUC 170 Urban Schools and Communities
Instructor: Courtney Humm
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In this course, students examine how schools and communities in the Twin Cities interact to provide support and developmental opportunities for school-age children. Through lectures, readings, discussions, field trips, and in-school and co-curricular placements, students gain an understanding and awareness of how race, class, ethnicity, national origin, and gender shape the complex character of urban youth and schools. Students spend one week in orientation activities on campus and two weeks in the Twin Cities. The last week of January Term is spent back on campus discussing the experience.
ACE Component: During the time in the Twin Cities, St. Olaf students participate as tutors and classroom assistants during the school day and then assist in various after-school and community programs.