Winter Term
Spring Semester
Winter Term
Global Village
The creation of a temporary global village is proposed as an
innovative, creative, and experiential way to tie the campus
together around the theme of "Globalization and
Culture." This course will offer overnight simulations,
cultural performances, and cultural sharing.
Toddie Peters - Leader GST 416 (Honors): Wealth and
Poverty
Matt Clark GST 376: Global Health Disparities
Jane Wellford GST 320: Sacred Dances of the World
Russell Gill ENG 499: Research in English
Jazz Ensemble Tour
This course will provide students interested in music a
vivid look at the many responsibilities of touring as a
member of a performing music ensemble. The students will
travel abroad to Spain and Portugal to experience what being
a musician in foreign countries is like. They will be
responsible for the history of music, focusing on influential
musicians, and also developing their own musical style.
Jon Metzger MUS 491: Music Ensemble Tour
Jazz Ensemble Tour Assessment
Aboriginal Australia
This study abroad course will focus on building a playground
in Gnangara, Australia. The students will work side by side
with the aboriginal people, in order to break down cultural
barriers. The playground will symbolize the relationship
between Elon and the Gnangara community.
Anne Bolin SOC 253: Aboriginal Australia Kathy
Lyday-Lee
Spring Semester
Sharing
Perspectives
This project is focused on linking students from around the
world (like Ghana and Elon). Students will travel abroad
during Winter Term and will be able communicate with the
students from Ghana via internet. Elon students will be part
of an extensive research project spanning three campuses
around the world. Technology will play an intricate role for
this course.
Brian Digre - Leader HST 279: History in Ghana
Ken Hassell ART 405: Photography III
Heidi Glaesel GEO 131: The World's Regions
James Brown GST 110: The Global Experience
Douglas Redington ECO 432: Public Finance
Conference on Religious Pluralism
This course offers Elon students an opportunity to explore
the many religions which have developed. They will be able to
visit many different places of worship such as synagogues,
Mormon temples, and Pentecostal meetings.
Anthony Hatcher JCM 375- Religion and Media
Grant Writing
Workshop
Teams composed of Elon students and managers of nonprofit
agencies will submit grant applications addressing current
social problems to foundations, granting agencies, and
government funding sources. Students will learn about the
history and nature of philanthropic activity in the US.
Brian Lewis POL 385: Grant Writing Workshop
The Empire Writes Back and Talks Back This
study abroad course in London will focus on the areas of the
world once colonized by Great Britain, learning the history
from the view point of the colonized people.
Kevin Boyle GST 356: The Empire Writes Back
Service Learning in the Middle Grades
This course will allow Elon students to interact directly
with middle school children. They will serve as aids in the
class, helping to teach reading and English mainly to the
foreign children.
Glenda Crawford EDU 471: Effective Middle School
Teaching
Writing and Information Gathering
This Journalism course will help students interested in
Journalism better understand the diverse communities in
society and develop their ability to report on those
communities in a more complete and accurate way.
George Padgett JCM 218: Writing and information
gathering
Postural
Restoration Clinic
Faculty members: Kyndall Boyle, Cynthia Lewis, Susan
Chinworth and George Sleek will be planning a service
learning opportunity where MPT students, area clinicians and
faculty will be paired together to provide a pro bono
postural examination screen for individuals in the community
with musculoskeletal complaints. To prepare for the
experience, students will participate in a 16
contact-hour-program of instruction in Postural Restoration
in April 2003. The presenter, Ron Hruska, is a nationally
known physical therapist. The service learning experience
will be assessed in a variety of ways including a written
survey and a case problem-solving example.
Kyndy Bole- Leader
George Sleek
Cynthia Lewis
Susan Chinworth
Parallel and Parabolic Justice
This project will allow students in their study of judicial
policy to observe and reflect upon the challenges confronting
a polity in developing a justice system. Students and faculty
will visit and interact with civic and judicial officials of
the Eastern Band of the Cherokee in the Qualla Boundary, the
Cherokee? self-governing jurisdiction in western North
Carolina, where the Cherokee have recently radically
reorganized their justice system.
Betty Morgan- Leader
Larry Vellani
Internation HIV/AIDS
Seminar
This project will use the human resources of our various
classes, as well as campus organizations, to design and host
an Elon mini-conference on HIV AIDS in Africa. Students will
hear from a number of speakers and will be able to fully
comprehend it more fully and realize the urgency of finding a
cure.
Jim Brown - Leader
Carol Magee
Paula Rosinski
Jane Stephens
Civic
Journalism
This offering will draw upon cross-curricular interest in
mass communication, sociology, political science and other
social sciences within the liberal arts curriculum. Students
will attend many different forums and hear from a variety of
speakers discussing news broadcasting, the communities in
Alamance County as well as learning the importance of civic
engagement and social responsibitlity.
David Loomis
American Environmental Writers
This course will attempt to enhance student's earth
awareness and hteir sense of the human/earth relationship by
providing them with the opportunity to take part in a
specially crafted earth awareness education program. The
class will consist of a workshop composed of 5 sessions,
which will recreate the sensory experiences described in the
works of the great American nature writers.
Andrew J. Angyal ENG 339: American Environmental
Writers
Writing about
Poverty
This course will explore the lower income families and ways
to help them. As part of this course, students will be asked
to volunteer on a weekly basis at a community organization
that helps people on low incomes. They will also have to
write a proposal arguing for the use of funds to a certain
organization of their choice.
Anne Cassebaum ENG 110: Writing about Poverty
College Writing 110
This course will offer a linkage between agencies in the
community that are willing to form collaborative partnerships
in experiential writing situations. First-year students will
be offered the opportunity to learn and shadow professionals,
in order to develop better writing skills.
Iris Chapman ENG 110: College Writing 110
Introduction to Education
This course will expose students to some of the issues and
controversies in public education, with the goal of
encouraging them to generate potential solutions to
complicated societal problems that affect our schools.
Melinda Rice EDU 211: Introduction to Education
(Honors)
Adopt-a-School
This project will focus on preparing Teacher Candidates to
enter the work force, by allowing them the opportunity of
writing grants, including budgets, so that they can become
leaders in initiating innovative ideas and obtaining funding
for those ideas when they accept a teaching position.
Deborah Long - Leader
Mark Rumley
Bird Stasz
Advanced
Projects in Ceramics
This art class will be in collaboration with Crossroads
Sexual Assault Response Center. Students will mold and paint
bowls which will then go to a silent auctions. All proceeds
will go to Crossroads.
Mike Sanford ART 400- Ceramics
