HIST173 - Faculty-Student Collaborative Action Seminar in Urban Univ-Comm Relations

Status
O
Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
HIST173 - Faculty-Student Collaborative Action Seminar in Urban Univ-Comm Relations
Term
2015A
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
401
Section ID
HIST173401
Registration notes

CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN US; BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SEMINARS; AN ACADEMICALLY BASED COMMUNITY SERV COURSE; PERMISSION NEEDED FROM INSTRUCTOR

Meeting times
W 0200PM-0500PM
Meeting location
133 S. 36th ST. (formerly MEL 514
Instructors
HARKAVY, IRA
Description
One of the seminar's aims is to help students develop their capacity to solve strategic, real-world problems by working collaboratively in the classroom, on campus, and in the West Philadelphia community. Research teams help contribute to the improvement of education on campus and in the community, as well as the improvement of university-community relations. Among other responsibilities, students focus their community service on college and career readiness at two West Philadelphia High Schools: Sayre High School and West Philadelphia High School. Students are typically engaged in academically-based community service learning at the schools on Monday and Tuesday afternoons. A primary goal of the seminar is to help students develop proposals as to how a Penn undergraduate education might better empower students to produce, not simply "consume," societally-useful knowledge, as well as function as caring, contributing citizens of a democratic society.
Course number only
173
Cross listings
AFRC078401 URBS178401
Use local description
No
Section Type
CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE US; BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SEMINAR
LPS Course
false
Major Concentrations
Major/Minor Requirements Fulfilled