Spring 2007

Spring 2007:

Undergraduate

Bus 4032 Taxation for Business

Instructor:  Elizabeth Capener

Students will determine Federal individual and corporate tax liabilities.  The tax implications of investment, retirement, and business decisions are covered.  The class will study the impact of tax policies on the economy.  Students may apply their knowledge of taxation in a service-learningopportunity with Tax Aid. Tax Aid provides free income tax
return preparation to low-income taxpayers throughout the Bay Area. 

Students have the opportunity to apply their knowledge of taxation to a variety of client situations.

They also expand and enhance their studies by working side by side with seasoned professionals.

Students have an opportunity to reflect on tax policy and the needs of the low-income taxpayer. 

This program hopes to encourage a lifetime commitment to using professional skills to provide valuable community service.  

CQHO 4030 Religion: Revolution and Cultural and Economic Transformation

Instructor:  Harlan Stelmach

Throughout history religious movements or political movements with religious values have contributed to broad-based social and cultural change that has transformed our human landscape for generations.  This course will focus on a wide range of examples of this type of change as it has occurred in different countries and within different religious traditions.  The premise of this course is that only when religious symbols have changed do we have the most revolutionary change.  Change of power from one elite to another, even if backed by social protest, is not radical change. The pedagogy of the course is to avoid conventional wisdom as the starting point for the course and seek to find new meaning and resources for radical change for our world today.  We will test out the viability of these new meanings in the student’s current work with community organizations focusing on various issues and needs regarding educational equity in this county. 

Students will also: gain experience in community organizing tactics and group dynamics, develop insight into the importance of civic engagement, learn to evaluate the efficacy of organizational practices, and hone leadership skills.
Community Partners include: Canal Alliance, County and Community Probation School, Women Helping All People Academy, Marin Grassroots Leadership Alliance, MarinLink, Davidson Middle School SNAP Afterschool program.

ENGL 1004 Expository Writing

Instructor:  Sister Aaron

English 1004 is a University-level writing course that emphasizes the writing of expository essays, including essay structure, thesis idea, the relation between thesis and  rhetorical modes—e.g., example, comparison and contrast, and argument—as well as organization and correctness in grammar, mechanics, punctuation, and spelling. It also examines many forms of American English. One of the principal methods for achieving the learning outcomes of the course is Service-Learning in partnership with the Canal Alliance and Davidson Middle School in San Rafael. 

NUR 4150 Community Health & Nursing

Instructor: Cris Bolla

This course is an introduction to population-focused nursing practice. The course utilizes our National Health Objectives, public health core functions, and the nursing process as the basis for health promotion, health protection, disease prevention, health maintenance, health restoration, and health surveillance of individuals, families, aggregates, and communities at the local, state, national, and global levels. The course emphasizes the needs of vulnerable populations across the lifespan, and examines socioeconomic, cultural, gendered, racial and political dimensions of vulnerability and risk.

Thursday is our off-site day at the Umbrella Project. The Umbrella Project is a community health, service-learning, outreach program, designed to provide the vulnerable elderly and disabled residents of Marin Housing Authority and Senior Access communities with health promotion services provided by Community Health Nursing and Occupational Therapy students of Dominican University of California (DUC). Home visiting will focus on medication management, safety, falls risk, nutrition, depression risk, and cognitive assessment. Home visits may often be made by an RN student and OT student together or RN students paired depending on the client need.

PHIL 3520 Self, Community, and Service: Ethics of Love and Responsibility

Instructor: Julia van der Ryn

If not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I?
–– Rabbi Hillel

This course presents philosophy as a living, breathing process of meaning-making, of seeking to make sense of who and why we are and what we wish to become, especially in relation to others. TThe class texts will focus on modern interpretations and approaches to foundational themes in moral philosophy. Each probes a different aspect of the specific dilemmas and opportunities that we face in the world today–– as autonomous and unique individuals and as parts of a larger social/cultural/political body.
Our understanding of key themes will be deepened through a 25 hour service component that allows for active cultivation and expression of core values in the local community. Service is an integral part of this course as it allows us to bridge theory to practice within an academic context that supports and deepens our understanding of this experience through relevant texts, discussion, and reflection.

SCS 3034/WGS 3034 Alternative Lifestyles

This course will explore the social and cultural implications of a variety of non-heteronormative lifestyles including: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT), intentional living communities, consciously single adult, and monasticism. Queer Theory will be examined. A Service-learning project with a community non-profit will apply theoretical concepts through work with a community serving non-profit organization. Students will work with Spectrum Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns, of Marin County, on a project related to course content. Students will work with people with whom they may not share common life experiences related to class, race, gender, ethnicity, religion, age, disability or sexual orientation. Through this participation students will have the opportunity to be a teacher and a learner, a server and a served.

, will lead an in-class training for students on techniques for conducting an oral history interview. Students will conduct oral history interviews with Spectrum Community members providing valuable archive information and life stories it can use for development purposes.

BIO 1550 Nutrition

Instructor: Lynne Marie LoPresto, MS, RD

This course covers the fundamental aspects of human nutrition and metabolism including the basic biochemistry and physiological function of dietary protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins and minerals in the human body.  The US Dietary Guidelines, MyPyramid and a dietary analysis program will be used to demonstrate dietary assessment techniques and as tools for nutrition education. Student will have 3 opportunities to adapt these materials to educate children in an elementary school classroom about healthy eating habits.  The course also includes a module on food production, pesticide use, food processing and safe food handling.  We will conclude with overview of food insecurity and world hunger issues which includes introduction to principles of sustainability and the prevention of environmental degradation.