Elon University - Community to Community

Sociology and Anthropology Service-Learning Courses:
SOC ANT 215 SL; ANT 381; GST 243 IS SL

These courses involve service to the local and global communities while teaching students how to conduct participant observation and to write field notes (SOC/ANT 215 SL: Qualitative Research Methods; ANT 381: Applied Anthropology); and service and study abroad (GST 243 IS SL: Social Development in Brazil). Service projects in these courses have included.

running activities and acting as companions in an assisted-living facility in Elon
tutoring and playing with elementary- and middle-school children in an afterschool program in East Burlington (East Brooke Community Center)
organizing town meetings and activities for children at a community center in a low-income housing complex (Beaumont Community Center)
working on an "Anthropology of Food" project (which involves creating culture, family and food posters featuring the family recipes of students) at a high school serving immigrant children during their first year of schooling in the United States (Newcomers School in Guilford County)
facilitating an ESL afterschool tutoring program for Latina mothers and painting the back half of the Centro La Comunidad in East Burlington
refurbishing a play area attached to a pediatrics ward at a public hospital in Brazil with youth from an art and development project and hospital workers (LABOREARTE and Clemete de Feira University Hospital in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil)
engaging in political activism surrounding the issue of public transit in Burlington.

Contact Information:
Kim Jones
CB 2035, Elon, NC 27244
Lindner 209C
(336) 278-6403
kjones14@elon.edu


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