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American Studies AMST 101: United States Redux: Introduction to American Studies (Professor Tahani-Madain) Students will work off campuswith two grassroots racial/social justice organizations on a bi-monthly basis. 

Art/History ARTH 170: Intro. to Early European Art (Professor Frank) Museum visits required. ARTH 287: History of Photography (Professor Siegelbaum) Course work includes community-based research and museum visit. ARTH 389: Modern and Contemporary Art (Professor Siegelbaum) Field trip to a local museum.

Art/Studio ARTS 250: The Art of Resistance! (Professor de la Loza) Students will visit the Southern California Library, an independentarchive of local Los Angeles movement history in South Los Angeles, and a workshop that will share research methodologiesemployed by the Pochx Research Society of Erased and Invisible Histories to contest dominant historical and artistic canons.Through a workshop format, local contemporary artists such as Dewey Tafoya, Shruti Purkayastha, will provide students withtools to develop projects that respond to dominant cultural narratives through graphic, performative, and interventioniststrategies. ARTS 105: Printmaking Fundamentals: Relief and Intaglio (Professor Lyke) Field trips and other activities linking thecoursework to the larger Los Angeles community. ARTS 290: Art Outside the Bounds: Wanlass Artists in Residence (Faculty Unassigned) Students will work with prominentvisiting artists who will be working on campus as Wanlass Artists in Residence.

Biology BIO 105 & BIO 105 1-1: Marine Biology and Marine Biology Laboratory (Professor Zahn) Includes one 3-hour lab period perweek and field trips will be included during the laboratory period. BIO 105 & BIO 105 2-2: Marine Biology and Marine Biology Laboratory (Professor Stubler) Includes one 3-hour lab period perweek and field trips will be included during the laboratory period. BIO260 L1 & L2: Biodiversity and Organization of Marine Ecosystems Laboratory (Professor Williams) Labs may take longerthan the scheduled lab period to accommodate field trips. BIO 370 L1 & L2: Field Ecology and Field Ecology Laboratory (Professor Braker) The course will include field trips, includingseveral extended trips on weekends and outside of class hours.

Critical Theory & Social Justice  CTSJ 340: Critical Ethnography (Professor Cristianakis) Students learn how to do ethnographic research and writing byconducting exercises in participant-observation on or near campus. CTSJ 398: Social Justice Practicum (Professor Christianakis) Working with a CTSJ faculty, students will select an internship sitewhose mission is to address matters of inequality and social justice.

Cultural Studies Program CSP 1: Expulsions: Un/documented Migrants, Refugees, and the Stateless (Professors Chase, Dolores Trevizo, Ear) Field Trip toU.S./Mexico Border. CSP 2: Science an You (Professor Udit) Community Engagement component. CSP 11: Humor, Laughter, and the (Morally) Good Life (Professor Morrissey) Attend comedy shows and have guest speakers. CSP 19: Los Angeles from Local to Global (Professor Matsuoka) Course includes field trips. CSP 98: Experiencing Los Angeles Cultures Johnson (Professor Johnson) Course is designed to expose students to some of themany cultures of Los AngelesMust participate in eight off-campus "field experiences."

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Please find below the list of classes being offered in Fall 2018 with a community based learning and/or researchcomponent (CBL/R). As you can see, the CBL/R components are broadly defined, including field trips, field work,class-based internships and research with community organizations. The CCBL created this list by going throughall class descriptions available as of July 25.

We suggest to check with faculty members to ensure that the CBL, field work and trips, and other componentslisted in the description are still happening if you are interested in taking the course.

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED LEARNING

DWA DWA: 403 The United Nations Experience (Professor Gardner & Fomerand) Course provides students with practical, hands onexperience through an internship with a United Nations Agency or a member state mission.

Education EDUC 140: Community Literacy (Professor Zamorano) Students work in the Academic Commons one-on-one with childrenfrom the community. EDUC 141: Community Literacy and Middle School Students (Professor Zamorano) Students work one-one with middle schoolstudents for extensive explorations in writing. Occidental students will collaborate and coach writing activities which will includenarrative, expository, and analytical prompts.  EDUC 142: Spanish Language Community Literacy and Middle School Students (Professor Alegria) Occidental students who areSpanish speakers will support students and teachers in Dual Language Programs in the local schools. Support will consist ofSpanish language development and language enrichment activities that will create an engaging and critically conceptualenvironment for elementary and middle school students. Occidental students will meet with the professor several timesthroughout the semester and will work with elementary and middle school students in their classroom two hours a week duringthe school day. EDU 300: Community Engagement in Education (Professors Solorzano & Castillo) This seminar will provide students with anopportunity to gain field experiences in an educational setting in urban Los Angeles. Students will select either a public school, acommunity-based organization, or a policy-making group as a site in which to develop a field-based research project. Regularmeetings in seminar will guide students as they spend the semester in a carefully crafted and mutually agreed upon"internship/fieldwork" experience that will culminate in a semester-end project report that addresses an educational issue ofimport to the fieldwork site.

Geology GEO 106: Earth and the Human Future Laboratory (Professor Sadd) One day trip. GEO 225: Introduction to Field Methods (Professor Rusmore) Seven days devoted to field work. GEO 105 1 & 2: Earth: Our Environment (Professor Blythe & Unassigned Faculty ) A one or two day field trip. GEO 305: Earth Materials (Professor Oze) A field trip to investigate rocks and minerals in some of California's most interestingnatural settings. GEO 342: Geomorphology (Professor Blythe) Includes a weekend field trip.

History HIST 345: The Holocaust: History, Testimony, and Memory (Professor Stone) Using the survivor testimonies archived at theUniversity of Southern California Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and the museum installation at the Museum ofTolerance, we will interrogate the emerging fields of witnessing and testimony in relationship to the memory of the Holocaustand the phenomenon of Holocaust commemoration and memorialization.

Kinesiology KINE 298 & 398: Community Health and Fitness Research (Professor Raney) Students will collaborate with community partnersunder the direct supervision of the instructor to create educational material, plan events, conduct informative workshops, andevaluate intervention strategies. KINE 396: Internship (Professor Bentzen) Supervised participation in the work of a nutrition, exercise, or other health relatedcompany or agency.

Media Arts & Culture MAC 248: Topics in Global Media. African Film and Media (Professor Laskin) This course will involve seminar-style discussions,presentations, extensive screenings (in and outside of class), guest lectures by African filmmakers and scholars, and critical writing.

Music MUSC 103: Music of Asia and the Pacific Islands (Professor Pillich) While knowledge of music theory and performance skills arenot necessary, it is essential that students be prepared for intensive music listening in and out of class. MUSC 104: Music of Africa and the Middle East (Professor Pillich) While knowledge of music theory and performance skills arenot necessary, it is essential that students be prepared for intensive music listening in and out of class. MUSC 130: Symphony Orchestra (Professor Anderson) As the community orchestra for Northeast Los Angeles, the Orchestra isnot only open to all students but also alumni and community members.

Politics POLS 260: Community Law Internship (Professor Gonzalez) All students enrolled in the Community Law Internship work with acommunity-based legal organization engaged in public interest law practice a minimum of 12 hours each week. (Must be taken(simultaneously with Politics 340) POLS 270: Campaign Fieldwork Internship (Professor Dreier & Freer) The internship will involve working full-time (a minimumof 40 hours a week) from the first day of class until Election Day. Enrollment limited to students participating in the CampaignSemester Program. (Co-requisites: Politics 271 and 272) POLS 271: Seminar on Political Campaigns (Professor Dreier & Freer) Enrollment limited to students participating in theCampaign Semester Program. (Co-requisites: Politics 270 and 272)

POLS 272: Independent Study on Political Campaigns (Professor Dreier & Freer) Each student will work with a professor tocraft a high-quality research paper that enters the academic debate on their selected topic, incorporates extensive secondarydata and existing research, and presents original analysis based on the student's campaign fieldwork. Enrollment limited tostudents participating in the Campaign Semester Program. (Co-requisites: Politics 270 and 271) POLS 340: Rebellious Lawyering (Professor Gonzalez) The unique co-requisite course design allows students to engage in aweekly seminar (Politics 340), work as law clerks in community-based public interest legal service organizations (Politics260), and interact with Los Angeles activists and lawyers as part of a speaker series. (Co-requisite: Politics 260)

Theater THEA 190: Theater Now: Los Angeles (Professor Meade) Course takes students off campus and in to local performancevenues to see the work of diverse artists making theater from a broad base of inspirations. THEA 260: Children's Theater, 3rd Grade (Professor Angell) In four intensive sessions, our students learn five workshopsgeared in Theater 260 to third grade, after which, under the instructor's supervision, they guide local elementary schoolclasses through the curriculum.

Urban & Environmental Policy UEP 306: Food and the Environment (Professor Cech & Romero) There will also be a CBL component to the class, based onmajor research projects associated with the ongoing research, policy, educational, organizing, and program work of theCenter for Food & Justice, which is a division of UEPI. UEP 307: Public Health Practicum (Professor Foong) The community health internship course is designed to providestudents with real-world experiences to develop new skills and enhance insights into myriad community health issues,concerns, and solutions. Under supervision of the course instructor in collaboration with a community proctor/partner,students will partner with a health focused non-profit organization, community clinic, or government agency to develop amutually beneficial community-based learning project. UEP 311: Community Internship (Professor Dreier) Each student will work with a community-based organization engagedin influencing public policy for approximately 12-15 hours each week.

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