ProCES courses connect community perspectives, knowledge, and priorities with academic work. Depending on the course, you might:
- Create a documentary film that sheds light on previously neglected historical perspectives;
- Review and summarize the scholarly literature on a key issue for the staff of a busy nonprofit organization;
- Grapple with ethical, critical, or theoretical understandings of and approaches to community and academic collaboration;
- Learn from responses to pressing societal challenges through the lens of a particular academic discipline.
ProCES courses have either a required (R) or opt-in (O) community-engaged or -oriented learning component. Course Offerings indicates these attributes based on the following descriptions:
- Community-Engaged Learning Component Required (R) indicates that all students will engage with community-based knowledge through activities such as in-class discussion, guest speakers, public presentations, site visits, or research.
- Community-Engaged Learning Component Opt-In (O) indicates that students select community-engaged or -oriented course experiences or assignments.
Search ProCES Course Offerings or see below for Spring 2025 ProCES courses.
Note that the description beneath each course indicates the types(s) of community-engaged or oriented offered within the course. Where applicable, distribution area acronym is listed below the instructor name. Please note that this list is dynamic and may change. Check back to confirm offerings prior to the new semester. In some cases, the engagement with community partners is pending or evolving.
AAS 304 Topics in African American Culture & Life (R)
Kelsey Henry
CD or HA
engagement with community-based guest speakers and/or site visits
AAS 404 Reparative Aesthetics: Art, Medicine and the Colonial Plantation (R)
Anna Kesson
CD or LA
engagement with community-based guest speakers
ANT 240 Medical Anthropology (R)
Thalia Gigerenzer and Glenn Shepard
CD or EM
research, application of course themes, and reflection through community partner project collaboration
ARC 317 Queer Spaces in the World (R)
S.E. Eisterer
CD or SA
collaboration with Philadelphia-based community partners on mapping and historical research
ARC 346 Modern Architectures in Context: Cities in Asia (O)
Da Hyung Jeong
HA
ASA 201 Introduction to Asian American Studies (O)
Carolyn Choi
CD or SA
ASL 102 Beginner's American Sign Language II (O)
Stefanie Amiruzzaman and Allison Bloom
visits to Deaf community events
ASL 107 Advanced American Sign Language (R)
Stefanie Amiruzzaman, Allison Bloom and Peter Cook
visits to Deaf community events
CEE 344 Water, Engineering, and Civilization (O)
Amilcare Porporato
option to identify an assignment into which community perspectives or priorities can be incorporated
CHI 107 Intermediate Chinese II (O)
Fang-Yen Hsieh
engagement with local Chinese speakers and culture via cuisine
CHI 452 Fifth-Year Modern Chinese II: Language and Culture in Contemporary China (O)
Staff
engagement with community-based guest speakers
COS 333 Advanced Programming Techniques (O)
Robert Dondero
software development project with a community partner
EGR 200 Creativity, Innovation and Design (O)
Alice Kogan and Christopher MacPherson
development of design project with community partner
EGR 277 Technology and Society (O)
Mihir Kshirsagar
SA
option to incorporate a community-oriented component into the course
EGR 341 TigerChallenge: Human-Centered Design for Social Impact (Year-Long Course) (R)
Jessica Leung
creation of projects for social impact using human-centered design methods
EGR 361 The Reclamation Studio: Applying Humanistic Design to Systemic Bias in Community Development (R)
Majora Carter
SA
learn from and contribute towards efforts of local social entrepreneurs via humanistic design frameworks
EGR 381 eLab: Creating Value in the Real World (Year-Long Course) (O)
Derek Lidow
development of sustainable projects for groups or communities
ENG 342 Indigenous Literature and Culture: Not Your Mascot (O)
Robbie Richardson
CD or LA
engagement with guest speakers
ENV 476 (Out)living Fossil Fuels: Histories and Futures of Energy Transitions (R)
Bethany Wiggin
CD or HA
engagement with community-based or -oriented speakers
FRE 208 Speak up! An Introduction to Topics in the Francophone World (R)
Carole Marithe Trévise
SA
engagement with community-based speakers
FRE 372 Migration, Diversity, Diaspora: Francophone Community-Engagement (R)
Sandie Blaise
CD
collaboration with Francophone immigrant programming
FRS 112 Imprisoned Minds: Religion and Philosophy from Jail (R)
Mark Edwards
EM
engagement with guest speakers and site visit
FRS 152 Translating Mesoamerica (R)
Nadia Cervantes Pérez
CD or LA
guest speakers; community partner-led workshop on language education
FRS 173 Acting against Oppression (R)
Vivia Font
LA
engagement with community-oriented artists
FRS 193 Food for Thought: What We Eat and Why (R)
Raquel Mattson-Prieto
SA
engagement with community-based guest speakers; participation at local food access site
GER/LIN 316 Learning (and Teaching) New Languages (R)
Jamie Rankin
EC
English language instruction in collaboration with local social services and educational outreach agency
HIS 275 The 'Voces de la Diáspora' Oral History Project (R)
Rosina Lozano
CD or HA
participation in oral history project with local partners and participants/narrators
JPN 306 Integrative Advanced Japanese II (O)
Tomoko Shibata
engagement with local Japanese speakers
JPN 402 Readings in Modern Japanese II (O)
Yukari Tokumasu
engagement with local Japanese speakers
JRN 260 The Media in America: What to Read and Believe in the Digital Age (O)
Joe Stephens
SA
option to integrate community orientation into course assignment
LIN 205 A Survey of American Sign Language (O)
Noah Buchholz
CD or EC
visits to Deaf community events
MAE 226 Engineering Methods and Skills (R)
Michael Littman
collaboration on a history of science project with a local historical society
PSY 385 Mind, Body, Culture: Clinical Psychology (R)
Shirley Wang
SA
engagement with community-based guest speakers
SPA 204 Spanish for a Medical Caravan (R)
Paloma Moscardó-Vallés
SA
engagement with guest speakers in preparation for in-country engagement
SPA 205 Medical Spanish (R)
Paloma Moscardó-Vallés
SA
engagement with guest speakers; participation in health screening activities
SPA 211 Varieties of Spanish (R)
Dunia Catalina Méndez Vallejo
SA
engagement with community-based guest speakers; site visit
SPA 304 Spanish in the Community (R)
Alberto Bruzos Moro
CD or SA
English language instruction in a community-based social services and advocacy agency
SPI 356 Asylum: Policy, Politics, and Practice (R)
Amelia Frank-Vitale
CD or EM
collaboration with a New York-based organization to work directly on ongoing asylum claims
SPI 413 The Criminal Legal System: Advocacy and Freedom (R)
Maya Dimant
SA
students will learn about the criminal legal system broadly and in NJ specifically, while working towards the freedom of an incarcerated person
THR 101 Introduction to Theater Making (O)
Shariffa Ali and Aaron Landsman
LA
THR 351 The Craft of Teaching - Community Focused Pedagogy for Artists and Performers (R)
Chesney Snow
LA
engagement with guest speakers and artists; preparation for and execution of arts-based workshop session(s) hosted by local partners
TPP 301 Seminar on Student Learning and Methods for Teaching (O)
Todd Kent and Kathleen Nolan
SA
observation and engagement in a school-based project
URB 384 Affordable Housing in the United States (R)
Aaron Shkuda
HA
guest speakers; research project in collaboration with local nonprofit(s)
WRI 231 Is Talk Cheap? II (Year-Long Course) (O)
Alexander Davis
EC
optional community engagement to inform research project