Description: Students in the course participated in several projects. One of these was to write a legislative proposal addressing a current problem or issue. Students choose topics such as affirmative action, economic access, and immigration. Students also worked on a community development project in a low income housing community in East Burlington. They ran town meetings and activities aimed at identifying community needs and working to develop strategies to meet those needs. They also helped organize community discussions on race and access in Burlington and public transportation. Students also ran an educational program on Food, Family, and Culture over several weeks at Newcomers School in Guilford County, where they worked closely with two classes of high school age new immigrant students.

Description: Strategic Communications uses public relations, advertising and social media to connect organizations to their publics. The organizations may be a Fortune 500 company or the United Way, an art museum or a university, a political campaign or a government agency.

Strategic Communications occurs in corporate, non-profit, governmental and agency settings. Organizations strategically communicate to audiences through publications and videos, crisis management through the news media, special events planning, building brand identity and product value, and communicating with stockholders, clients or donors.

Students are prepared to launch creative and meaningful careers in roles such as communication directors, writers, editors, videographers, designers, and web editors.

Description:Education majors in the class and Spanish minors in SPN 321 work together on an academic service-learning endeavor, The Amigos Project. Small teams of students mentor students who are English language learners at Broadview Middle and Cummings High Schools and develop relationships with their families. Events throughout the semester include a get-acquainted gathering, social and sporting events, a service project, a visit to campus for a tour and game, and a culminating family celebration dinner. The Elon students conduct ethnographic inquiry and digital storytelling to co-produce each family’s narrative.

Description: Students go to Town of Elon meeting each semester and write about local government; students write about local events for The Pendulum and occasionally for the Burlington Times-News, covering such news as environmental forums, nationally known speakers and local and national elections; content depends upon opportunities available for reporting and writing about the community during each particular semester.

Description: Restorative Justice class teams undertake initiatives of their choice which recognize a particular violence and brokenness in their community. They then work with stakeholders, both victims and offenders, to devise a restorative rather than a retributive response to that violence. Together, they find a way to achieve restitution or reconciliation. This is not simply a research paper or service learning.  Restorative justice activists take grass root responsibility with others to boldly, creatively, and compassionately make justice, whether in community agencies, religious community, sports, employee /management relations, judicial affairs, or environmental disputes to achieve fairness which is accountable but also healing.