Examples of Community-Based Learning Projects Done in “Ethics and Society”
- Organized educational workshops on social and economic injustices.
- Tutored students with learning disabilities.
- Worked with younger students in art, exercise, and reading after school programs.
- Advocated on behalf of animals: fundraisers for animal shelters, information tables, movie nights, work parties at farm sanctuary, and volunteering at clinic for homeless people and their companion animals.
- Organized craft making parties to create community and save materials from going to the landfill. Then sold the crafts to raise money for non-profits in the Forest Grove area.
- Organized voter registration drives.
- Worked with two Starbucks stores to increase recycling and begin composting.
- Worked with Facilities to change shower heads in residence halls to energy efficient ones and to install clothes lines for drying clothes in Walter Hall.
- Taught critical thinking skills and informal logic (including fallacies) to younger students.
- Promoted alternatives to bottled water and organized a “ban bottled water on campus” campaign.
- Started a bike sharing program in the residence halls.
- Challenged conceptions of what is normal (e.g., challenging notions of personal space, gender roles, and privacy).
- Created a short documentary of LGBTQ students on campus and their experiences.
- Organized an art exhibit to raise funds for a non-profit and raise awareness of student talent; also worked with the library to place student photographs in the library to beautify the library and promote student artists.
- Assisted non-profit organizations that focus on local and world hunger issues.