SL-CCC
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Committee Members
David P. Aday, Special Assistant to the Provost, AMST and Sociology
Allison Anoll, Student Representative (Sharpe Ambassador Council)
Rene Cabral-Daniels, Vice President of Grants, Williamsburg Community Health Foundation
Monica Griffin, Director of the Sharpe Program (Acting Chair)
Judd Kennedy, Student Representative
Hilary Marcus, Graduate Assistant (ex-officio)
Lynn Pelco, School of Education
Drew Stelljes, Director of the Office of Volunteer Services
Dennis Taylor, VIMS
Components for the Community Studies Minor (DRAFT)
Credit Hours Required: 18 minimum; 22 credit hours possible
Course Requirements:
One (1) 3-4-credit service-learning course: Options will include:
(a) Sharpe Freshman seminar (b) INTR 250: Intro. to Community Studies course (to be developed), or (c) any approved, fully integrated service-learning course
Two 3-credit Core Minor courses:
(1) Documentation and Action Research (focus on community-based participatory research methods, incl. community organizing and social movements, writing about community and for the public, presenting community information)
(2) Critical Engagement in a Transnational Context (critical consideration of social positioning of Americans as global citizens, incl. cross-cultural review of social justice theory and inequality) ***This course is currently being developed by Hilary Marcus, Graduate Research Assistant for Sharpe and Reves.
Two (2) elective courses: Students will work with Faculty Advisors to identify elective courses from any discipline in the curriculum. Elective courses must account for at least 3 credits each, and students must make a case for their enrollment in the Community Studies Minor by developing Capstone/Thesis Plan for community-based research.
One 1-credit Independent Study/Honors Thesis Colloquia â To complete the Community Studies minor students are required to participate in a 1-credit Community Studies Capstone/Thesis Colloquia â a series of preparatory meetings for writing and/or public presentation; attendance at lectures or events related to their work; and culminating presentation by yearâs end, either of Honors work or Capstone experiences. Students are encouraged to seek academic credit for Honors work in their concentration disciplines, especially if their projects are supervised by advisors in their disciplines. Alternatively, students may elect to engage in a Capstone or Honors thesis in Community Studies (Interdisciplinary Studies), if preferred, in which case they could apply up to 6 credit hours for the additional work they complete.
Public Service Requirement: Students are not awarded academic credit for their community service hours. However, the Community Studies Minor requires one service-learning course for enrolled students in order to ensure that all minors have the experience of fully integrating their community engagement with a courseâs content and academic learning objectives.
The minor also requires that students commit to a total of 60 hours community volunteering, activism, public service interning, or community-based research as connected to the Capstone/Thesis plan, to ensure the integrity of contact and interaction for the purposes of community-based research. (One service-learning course counts for 20 hours.) Exact hours requirements are subject to change with faculty consultation.
