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Quest III

In Quest III courses students extend their classroom into a community setting, working with a local non-profit, community group, or campus partner. This experience allows the student to apply their classroom learning to a real world, practical experience, and then return to the classroom with a higher proficiency.

Signature Questions (SQ)

Civic Learning (CL): How do people understand and engage in community life?
Intercultural Knowledge (ICK): How do people understand and bridge cultural differences?
Sustainability (SUS): How do people understand and create a more sustainable world?

Quest III Catalog of Courses

(last updated 9/19/23)

Please see TitanWeb @ https://uwosh.edu/registrar/titanweb/  for most up-to-date course information.

Course Number & DescriptionSignature
Question
Anthropology 220Q3: Culture and Health (XS)
This course is focused on anthropological approaches used to explore the dynamic relationship between culture and health. Throughout the semester, students will also assess how certain cultural practices, economic systems, and forms of political organization either prevent or contribute to the creation of a more sustainable world. In this class, students will learn some of the methods anthropologists use to monitor the interaction between cultural variables and human physiological wellbeing, including auxological techniques as well as how medical anthropologists apply ethnographic methods and anthropological theory to address many pressing issues in global health.

Community Partner:
Oshkosh Community Pantry

Community Experience:
In this course you will work with a Community Partner that works with people living in poverty. You will reflect on these experiences as it relates to course content.
SUS
Anthropology 221Q3: Global landscapes of Aging (XS) (ES)
This course takes an anthropological approach to study experiences of aging across cultures around the world. Focusing on ethnographic case studies, the course examines the intersection of local socio-cultural beliefs and practices surrounding again with wider policies and global dynamics. This cross-cultural analysis destabilizes and challenges stereotypes of again, fosters empathy, and builds critical thinking skills by turning the lens on the beliefs and practices that concern again in American society.

Community Partner:
Local Senior Living Facilities

Community Experience:
You will have the opportunity to talk and interact with elders through activities, visiting one-on-one.
CL
Anthropology 225Q3: Celebrating Culture Through the Arts (XC) (ES)
This course will focus on community engagement with people of diverse ethnic groups utilizing anthropological approaches to visual art, music, and dance. In the course, students will examine how people of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds communicate through visual art, music, and dance about issues such as gender, family, identity, tradition, historical consciousness, ideology, experience, and more. At the same time, students will learn about anthropological approaches to art and performance, how art illuminates diverse cultures, and how knowledge of culture facilitates deeper understanding of the arts. In addition, the class will explore art and performance as experiential modes of learning that go beyond verbal and written means. As part of this process, students will learn about how anthropologists work with people, especially through ethnographic methods. These purposes converge in the students' engagement in diverse peoples and arts in the local community. Special fees may apply.

Community Partner:
Lighted School House After School Program

Community Experience: You will work with local schools to teach children about cultural arts projects.
ICK
Art 220Q3: Arts and Sustainability (XS)
This course emphasizes the concept and application of sustainability in and through the arts. Students will explore conceptual and technical methods artists and arts educators use to sustain cultures, quality of life, social justice, traditions, beliefs locally and globally. Students will expand their understandings between arts and sustainability and apply these interdisciplinary awareness and strategies to transform growth personally and professionally in campus life and future career.

Community Partner:
The Paine Art Center and Gardens

Community Experience:
Students will participate in a community project at The Paine Art Center and Gardens in Oshkosh to engage in activities to learn the impact of The Paine in the community. Students will explore, respond, and connect with various art forms, such as visual arts, architecture, and horticulture, through engagement in educational events, exhibitions, garden designs, and dialogues with featured artists. Each student will develop surveys and conduct interviews with museum visitors/local citizens to examine their ideas and perceptions regarding The Paine's impact and role to sustain the art, culture, and history of the community.
SUS
Art 224Q3: Conflict and Memorial (XC)
Students will examine art/memorials and reference that knowledge in Community Engagement projects as they expand their knowledge and understanding of the ways monuments and memorials function for individuals, groups, and communities. 

Community Partner:
Veteran's Resource Center

Community Experience:
In this course you will work with culturally diverse military groups and individuals, learn their stories, and create mini monuments for those individuals.
SUS
Art 236Q3: Experience Mapping (XC)
Using a variety of media, we will make maps and information graphics that address the concept of Sustainability by illustrating connections between people and place, nature and the built environment, meaning and experience. Rooted in studio art and design practice, this introductory-level course will explore the many ways creative spatial and visualization techniques can address the concept of Place. Developing a Sense of Place is a way of understanding and valuing the unique properties of your surroundings as well as your place in them. We will approach our Signature Question, How do people understand and create a more sustainable world? through artmaking, reading, and discussion fortified with a significant amount of local exploration.
SUS
Biology 104Q3: Ecosphere in Crisis (XL)
Treats humans as biological organisms that interact with the living and nonliving world.  Emphasis is given to how humans affect, and are affected by, their environment.  Topics covered include basic ecology, global change, renewable and nonrenewable energy sources, air and water quality, and biological diversity.  Special course fees will be charged to cover the cost of transportation during local field trips. Special fees may apply. 

Community Partner:
Local Elementary

Community Experience:
In this course students will work with elementary students at local schools to share lessons with them related to the topics covered in the course.
SUS
Biology 119Q3: Introduction to Freshwater (XL)
Water is essential for all life and humans rely on freshwater for food production, industry, and multiple forms of recreation. The course provides an introduction to freshwater and the critical role it plays in supporting people and ecosystems. The class will be rooted in the signature question: How do people understand and create a more sustainable world? The fundamental learning outcome is to summarize and evaluate the ways freshwater is important to society and natural ecosystems. Students will achieve learning outcomes from multimedia presentations, lectures, class discussions, and laboratory and field exercises.

Community Partner:
Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance

Community Experience:
Students will participate in water quality monitoring.
SUS
Business 275Q3: Sustainability: The 21st Century Business Strategy (XS)
This course addresses the concept of sustainability with a focus on strategy for organizations. Emphasis is on the triple bottom line of economic, social and environmental perspectives and how the strategy of an organization impacts each of these areas on a micro and macro level, both short and long-term. A substantial portion of the course surrounds a Community Experience with a Community Partner. This experience will involve application of course materials to a major issue our partner is facing. Special fees may apply.

Community Partner:
Habitat for Humanity of Oshkosh, ReStore

Community Experience:
In this course, you will take lessons learned in the course related to supply chain, marketing, and social entrepreneurship and apply them to projects at the Habitat ReStore. You will work with the organization throughout the semester, where you will learn about their operations and then apply your course knowledge to an issue they are facing.
SUS
Computer Science 125Q3: Website Development (XS)
This is an introductory course on website design and online branding. It covers elementary aspects of popular web development software packages. You will learn to create complete websites using responsive design and web services. The expectations for prerequisite knowledge are only basic computer skills.

Community Partner:
Local Non-profit agencies

Community Experience:
In this course you will work with local non-profits to build and create websites and social media pages.
CL
Ed Leadership 201Q3: Schools vs. Communities: Who is in Charge (XS) (ES)
This course is designed to be an exploration of the social and political communities which make up the public school institution and the relationships fostered in the struggle for power and control. Society often views schools as institutions in themselves, but do not recognize all of the communities involved in education our students. These communities include the peer communities and the political communities. All of the communities may impact on students and their academic achievement and success, or lack of success. The role individuals and institutions play in creating and perpetuating these communities will be explored in this course by engaging in activities and reading grounded in civic knowledge. Through readings, classroom discussions and debates, students in this course will engage in learning how both micro and macro communities affect student success and how engaging in social change can enhance opportunities for student self-efficacy and academic achievement. Through a photo-journal project grounded in civic engagement, students will participate in on-site research to assess the power structure of schools to ascertain who really is in charge.

Community Partner:
May include teachers, principals, students, Boys and Girls Club administrators, staff and participants, community support groups, After School programs, and the YMCA

Community Experience:
In this course you will explore the power structure present in the community and its implication.
CL
Elementary Ed/Secondary Ed 202Q3: Culture and Community Change in Costa Rica - Study Abroad (XS)
Costa Rica is a small democracy in Central America with a wealth of biodiversity and cultural traditions. In this study abroad you will have the opportunity to work alongside the people of Costa Rica in community projects involving education, immigrant rights, working with children with disabilities, and environmental awareness. In addition, we will visit the rainforest, beaches on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and spend time in Afro-Caribbean and indigenous communities. This course provides an opportunity to address real-world challenges through active engagement in communities in San Jose, Costa Rica. 

Community Partner:
A San Jose-based partner organization
ICK
Elementary Ed/Secondary Ed 210Q3: Pursuing the Dream (XS)
Public schools in the United States are no longer majority white students (IES/NCES, 2021). Nevertheless, students of Latinx, Black and other backgrounds continue to be underrepresented in college preparation classes and at universities. Locally, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, students from non-white and lower economic households continue to struggle with literacy skills, so important for academic work in K-16 settings. In this course, we address how underlying issues of race, class, language and culture influence the outcomes for students in public schools, especially where the vast majority of teachers and administrators are white and middle class. In this Quest III course, UW Oshkosh students will be engaged one-on-one with young people in the Oshkosh Area School District to support the district’s Growing Readers program of literacy development, especially by writing and sharing about one another’s lives. An additional goal is to open up the horizons of the students in Oshkosh schools to possibilities in higher education. This course will also meet requirements as an elective in the ESL certificate program within the Department of Teaching and Learning. In Quest II, you had the opportunity to explore careers and research opportunities. In this Quest III course, you will apply principles of action research to your work in the area of education, specifically with the diverse young people in Oshkosh schools.

Community Partner:
Local Elementary and Middle Schools

Community Experience:
In this course you will with children in Oshkosh through the Growing Readers program.
ICK
English 285Q3: Language Matters and Linguistic Puzzles (XS)
Language Matters and Linguistic Puzzles is a Quest III course designed to introduce students to the basics of how language works and why it matters. The course will focus on three main areas of language study: how we acquire language, how we use language, and how cultural and individual identities are shaped and contested through language.

Community Partner:
Local High Schools

Community Experience:
You will organize and run a Linguistic Olympiad tournament.
CL
English 294Q3: Literary Landscapes Study Abroad (XC)
Literary Landscapes is a Quest III course designed to introduce students to the connections between literature, the environment, cultural inheritance, and civic action while completing a community experience related to the Signature Question: How do people understand and create a more sustainable world? As a QIII course, EN 294 requires 14 to 20 hours of experiential learning in addition to academic requirements. Prerequisite: WBIS 188, English 101, or English 110

Community Partner:
Burrenbeo Trust, Historic Graves

Community Experience:
In this course you will partner with organizations that are working to preserve the historic region, the Burren. Projects will vary based on the Burrenbeo Trust’s need at the time of travel. You will also work with Historic Graves where you will work as an Archeologist for the day. You will work on cataloging headstones in historic graveyards.
SUS
Environmental Studies 201Q3: Conservation in Action (XS)
By examining the interconnections between humans and the environment, this Quest 3 course will address the signature question, "How do people understand and create a more sustainable world?" Moving from big picture concepts to specific examples, this course will cover basic ecology, values of and threats to biodiversity, and an orientation to environmental activism and stewardship practices. Hands-on activities may include habitat restoration, water quality sampling and management, growing food, teaching conservation, and other citizen-based science. As part of Quest 3, your community-based learning experiences will empower you to advocate for a healthy environment. Students cannot get credit for both Biology 104/104Q3: Ecosphere in Crisis and Env Stds 201 Q3: Conservation in Action

Community Partner:
Local schools, Wisconsin Conservation Voters, and the UWO - Oshkosh campus Grounds Department

Community Experience:
In this course your work will be related to sustainability and environmental activism.
SUS
Geography 105Q3: Geographies of Coffee (XS) Study Abroad in Guatemala.
Coffee is not simply an enjoyable beverage - it dominates the economy, politics, and social structures of entire countries, as well as threads together diverse communities operating at local, regional, national, and global scales. This course examines coffee in detail, as a way of introducing geography as a discipline for understanding both the physical world and human societies. This course explores the physical factors that influence coffee production, the political and economic factors that influence coffee trade, and the cultural factors that influence coffee consumption.
CL
History 210Q3: Topics in the Modern History of the United States (XS)
It may be offered with different content.

Oral History of WI Farming: "Where does our food come from? Students will answer this question by studying the history of farming and rural life and by interviewing actual Wisconsin farmers."

Community Partner:
Farmers

Community Experience:
In this course you become an Oral Historian. You will work with area farmers to collect and record oral histories. Traveling away from the university may be required.
SUS
History 215Q3: Topics in History Optional Content (XS)
Selected topics in History. It may be offered with different content.

Charity & Memory from Medievel England to New Deal U.S.: "How do societies respond to poverty? This course will focus on how different governments and civic organizations have answered that question from medieval England to the early USA to present-day Oshkosh."

Community Partner:
Oshkosh Area Community Pantry, St Vincent de Paul, Winnebago/Oshkosh Housing Authority

Community Experience:
In this course you will work with a Community Partner that works with people living in poverty. You will reflect on these experiences as it relates to course content.
CL
Honors 275Q: Culture Connection (XC)
This course is intended to assist students with 1) cultivating strategies for engaging deeply with cultural experiences and events, and 2) furthering their development as writers. To that end, students will read a selection of essays on cultural criticism as well as cultural critiques of theatrical performances, music recitals and concerts, art exhibits, etc. In addition, students will be expected to attend cultural events on campus or in the community and to write their own critiques of those events. Prerequisites: Enrolled in good standing with The Honors College; prior or concurrent enrollment in HNRS 175.
CL, ICK, SUS
Info Sys 151Q3: Creating the Digital Future (XS)
This course explores the impact of emerging interactive technologies on business and society from social, economic, technical, legal, creative, and entrepreneurial perspectives. It provides an overview of the myriad of issues surrounding the introduction of new mobile, collaborative, social networking technologies, and their assimilation into society and commerce. The course will involve significant hands-on work. Specific topics to be covered in the course include: information security and privacy, new ways of organizing work and supporting collaboration, use of interactive technologies to support marketing and advertising, creation of new high-tech businesses, and the impact of emerging technologies on users.

Community Partner:
Local non-profit organization

Community Experience:
You will work closely with organization to fully understand their mission statement and to help get that message across in their website.
CL
Interdisciplinary Studies 270Q3: Telling Stories for Fun, Profit and World Peace (XC) (ES)
True stories have great power. They have the power to inform/ they have power to effect change. Study how humans told personal stories through the ages, and how those stories shape our world. Hear stories firsthand, build awareness of your own civic identity and learn the components of good storytelling. Use your storytelling voice to help others tell their own stories with accuracy and compassion on multiple platforms (print and online).

001C – TuTh 3:00-4:30PM

Community Partner:
Humans of Oshkosh

Community Experience:
In this course you become one of the story tellers behind Humans of Oshkosh. You will be required to venture into the local Oshkosh community, find interesting people, and tell their story.
CL
Interdisciplinary Studies 284Q3: Collaboration and Community (XC)
This course considers how groups of people can work to best understand one another as partners of a complex web of cultures and subcultures in the 21st century. To begin this consideration, course participants will study writing centers as a model of collaborative discourse and apply this knowledge to groups and communities more broadly. How can different people in a community collaboratively work together to construct meaning.

Community Partner:
People of the Oshkosh community

Community Experience: Apply theories of collaborative learning to a project assisting people previously from cultures outside Oshkosh.
ICK
Journalism: 141Q3: Introduction to Media: News, Public Relations and Advertising (XC)
This course is designed to provide you with the essential knowledge about the media and the professions in the media. It will enable you to understand the complex relationship between the media and society, which promotes critical thinking about the ways in which the media inform our everyday lives. You also will study the theories, regulations and effects of mass communication and how they relate to cultures. In this course, we will study the complex relationship between the media and society, through a project with a community partner that helps us see how people understand and engage in community life in Winnebago County.

Community Partner:
Winnebago County Health Department

Community Experience:
You will explore aspects of media in terms of civic understanding and community life.
CL
Philosophy: 210Q3: Ethics and Community (XC)
Everyone has opinions about right and wrong; good and bad. At the very lease we all want people to be good to us. But what does this mean exactly? This course addresses age-old questions about right and wrong, with an emphasis on community: What is the relationship between individual morality and the ability for a community to thrive? What duties might a community have to its members that are separate from the duties of individuals? Do different cultures have different moral duties or are we all bound by the same moral principles, whatever the local conventions happen to be? What is the origin of morality?
CL
Physical Education 208Q3: Effective Leadership in Adventure, Outdoor, and Recreation Education (XS)
This course presents the concepts of adventure, outdoor, and recreation education including cooperative and leadership activities Each student will take part in a civic engagement experience where they will help teach others how to react and respond to a variety of situations they engage in while being physically active. Some of the activities students could be involved in are: individual and dual sports, team sports and rock climbing, swimming, cycling, running, and ice skating. A focus will be placed on the pedagogical aspects of adventure, outdoor, and recreation education and how these activities build community through physical activity as well as the transferable skills of leadership in adventure, recreation, and in the outdoors.

Community Partner:
Appleton Middle School, Wisconsin Trails Association, Boy Scouts, or Girl Scouts

Community Experience:
For this community experience, you will be leading groups through adventure programming on a low and high ropes course. You will learn how to plan and implement adventure programming through an intensive in class session and get to experience the leadership component with groups of students from the community.
CL
Physics/Astronomy 135Q3: Astronomy for Everyone (XL) (GC)
The role of astronomy in human culture has always been viewed as essential because it is the main tool through which human civilization determines its true place in the surrounding Universe. All global cultures have had their approaches and interpretations of the observed patterns and cycles in the sky. Diversity is inherent in the development of the science of astronomy, and its practical applications have played a crucial role in the organization of community life. This course examines key astronomical phenomena from the point of view of ancient cultures and of modern astronomy, to address how this knowledge has been integrated into communities from historical, scientific, and education perspectives.

Community Partner:
Science classes and STEM programs at local high schools and colleges, Lighted School House, afterschool programs, outreach programs, multicultural groups.

Community Experience:
Students will attend one of the programs listed above and work with the participants to introduce them to one of more astronomy topics.
CL
Political Science 105Q3: American Government (XS)
Organization, principles and actual working of the American National Government in all its branches. Special fees may apply.

Community Partner:
Oshkosh City Council

Community Experience:
In this course you will work the Oshkosh City Council to see firsthand how city government works
CL
Political Science 108Q3: Essentials of Civic Engagement (XS)
Introduces the student to the obligations and benefits of active citizenship and participation in their communities. Theories of citizenship and citizen activity, policy analysis, the state of public policies at the full array of governing levels from local to global, and experiential activities within the community are featured. This is the gateway course to both the Civic Engagement Minor and the Civic Engagement emphasis within the Political Science Major.

Community Partner:
UWO Center for Civic and Community Engagement

Community Experience:
You will see civic & community engagement in action through local projects.
CL
Political Science 212Q3: Study Abroad (optional content) (XS)
Study Abroad is a course offered by our faculty with most of the content delivered off campus, usually but not always outside of the United States. These courses introduce places and subjects through reading and lecture but heavily emphasize experiential learning in the location of study. Courses offered under this title may include such offerings as: British Politics, German Politics, Comparative Genocide, Comparative West European Politics, and US Supreme Court. Courses includes significant community experience while abroad.

Community Partner:
Patrick Henry Village in Heidelberg
CL
Political Science 214Q3: The Politics of Food (XS)
In this course, we'll learn about how food policy is made at the national, state, and local levels. Then we'll examine how those policies impact the type and quantities of the food we eat, food distribution, food safety, and nutrition. Throughout, we'll have an eye to the future: is our current food system sustainable: That is, will it last beyond our lifetimes? Our class will encounter these issues not only in the classroom, but through our work with partners in the Oshkosh community.

Community Partner:
ReThink & Oshkosh Area Community Pantry

Community Experience:
You will partner with the Oshkosh Area Community Pantry where you will see firsthand how politics affects what people can eat. You will participate in a variety of programs at the pantry and work on one larger project to assist the organization.
SUS
Political Science 231Q3: Sex, Power, Policy (XS)
We will consider how social norms, political institutions, and activism from the public shape discourse and action on issues related to gender and sexuality. Students will be expected to learn about and engage with the concept of gender as an analytical tool to view the political world. This will be achieved through both theory and practice. As is expected for a Quest III Course, students will be engaged in activity outside of the traditional classroom. They will use their knowledge of gender as a key concept in which to engage the social world to facilitate and participate in gender and sexuality-themed institutions and events at UWO Fox Cities and the greater community.

Community Partner:
Planned Parenthood & the (UW Women's Center for Oshkosh campus courses).

Community Experience:
TBD
CL
Radio TV Film 220Q3: Digital Narratives (XC)
The course focuses on how our relationships with our local communities impact our culture, our politics, and our neighbors in the context of digital narratives. To that end, this course will introduce students to community organizations and help them establish reciprocal, working relationships that will produce a digital media object that meets the needs of the community organization. This course will introduce students to a variety of theories and concepts related to digital narratives, including platform affordances, digital media literacy, and digital audiences and publics. The outcome of the collaboration will allow students to craft meaningful narratives about Oshkosh in a way that speaks to the affordances and expectations of the 21st century while remaining grounded in local conditions.

Community Partner:
Local Non-profit agency

Community Experience:
Students will work with the community partner to create a digital media project that connects the community to local art or historical features of Oshkosh.
CL
Social Work 268Q3: Social Welfare Institutions: Supporting Communities in Need (XS)
Students will study the history of the American social welfare system and its current application locally and nationally. The course emphasizes a critical approach toward understanding social welfare institutions, and highlights social work's role in civic engagement in an effort to humanize these institutions and promote social justice.

Community Partner:
Oshkosh Area School Board, Oshkosh City Council, Winnebago County Board, or state level elected official.

Community Experience:
You will work with an elected official to identify a specific project/policy issue with which to assist.
CL
Sociology 209Q3: Special Topics in Sociology: Dynamics of Modern Homelessness (XS)
This course seeks to understand who the homeless person is, the social dynamics that may have led him to that point, the experiences of her reality of homelessness, and the social structures that they are interacting with. The course will explore social perceptions of the homeless, the historical context of homelessness, and the basis for current community, state and national responses to homelessness.

Community Partner:
Homeless shelter providers in the region

Community Experience:
You will assist direct service professionals during their interactions with individuals experiencing homelessness, ranging from registrations, interviews, shelter services, and others.
CL
Sociology & Environmental Studies 261Q3: Environment and Society (XS)
Examines relationship between social structure, culture and natural environments; compares different modes of production and cultural systems. Examines economic, political and ideological structures of industrial and industrializing societies. Analyzes the impact of these structures upon natural environments and analyzes the impact of natural environment upon these structures. Sociology 261/Environmental Studies 261/Political Science 261 Students may receive credit for only one of the three cross-listed courses. Special course fees may apply.

Community Partner:
Oshkosh North High School Communities program students

Community Experience:
The project is designed to get you out into the field, into society, to observe and reflect upon the relationship between people and their environment, and to do what sociologist do, while engage in hands-on work related to sustainability.
SUS
Theatre 275Q3: Interactive Theatre: Performing Difficult Dialogues on Diversity (XC)
Interactive Theatre is a performance mode designed to prompt difficult dialogues and to lead its participants both actors and audiences through a process of creating social changes. This course will provide students with the opportunity to learn and later employ the precepts of Interactive Theatre for the purpose of addressing issues of diversity, including (but not limited to) ethnic and racial diversity. Students will explore Interactive Theatre techniques from the perspective of actors, directors, designers, and playwrights.

Community Partner:
Multicultural Groups

Community Experience:
In this course you will work with multicultural groups from campus and the community. You will join those groups for the semester, learn about their experiences in Oshkosh, and then use that knowledge to create short performances that engage the audience in a dialogue on the topic.
ICK
Urban Planning 250Q3: Urban Sustainability (XS)
The course focuses on issues of environmental sustainability within an urban context. Students will explore the definition of sustainability and examine methods to measure sustainability. The course will examine potentially sustainable solutions, such as urban growth boundaries, public transportation, and green buildings. The course will also consider questions, such as the differential impact of the pollution on disadvantaged population groups and on human health. Each student will complete a substantial community engagement project examining an aspect of urban sustainability in Oshkosh and document this experience in a term paper and group presentation to classmates and community representatives.

Community Partner:
Oshkosh Transit

Community Experience:
You will analyze bus routes and collect data.
SUS
Urban Planning 260Q3: Community Development (XS)
Community development, as its best, focuses on empowering community residents with the (civic) knowledge and skills that enable them to make and implement decisions about their future and the future of their community. It is a set of values and practices encouraging collective and collaborative work, equality and justice, learning and reflecting, participation, political awareness and sustainable change. Additionally, community development acknowledges and focuses on overcoming the divisions, social exclusions and discrimination that deter some people in communities from participating in activities and decision-making. Gaining an understanding how people understand and engage in community life will enable us to straighten our communities and enrich our lives. In this course students will actively engage in community development in Oshkosh. Students will assist neighborhood residents and organizations study their physical and social environment and collect data, generate.

Community Partner:
ReThink, Habitat for Humanity of Oshkosh, City of Oshkosh, Greater Winnebago Mobility Council

Community Experience:
The projects for this course vary based on which community partner you work with. Each project requires you to assess the built environment in your community.
CL
Women's and Gender Studies 204Q3: Global Perspectives on Women and Gender (XS)
Course examines women's status and power around the globe, with a specific focus on the following issues; education, health and reproduction, family, gendered violence, work, the environment, and political representation. Focus on past and present transnational feminist movements to combat oppression and improve the lives of girls and women worldwide.

Community Partner:
UW Oshkosh Women’s & LGBTQ+ Resource Centers

Community Experience:
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to academia and whether and how it serves diverse populations, with particular focus on women, the LGBTQ community, and multicultural groups. The course focuses on the history and mission of these centers and their current role in shaping campus climate and increasing access or historically underrepresented and/or marginalized groups.
ICK
Women's and Gender Studies 226Q3: Saving Seeds, Saving Community (XC)
This course focuses on American ethnic women's relationship to nature, the land and culture. Through collaborating with local women farmers and reading ethnic women's writings, we will explore how people's attitudes toward the land, animals and the earth are influenced by culture, beliefs and values shared by a group of people. Thus, we will begin to understand how people's world view, their cultural perspective, shapes them. We will see how women's choice to work the land is also a choice to create a future for themselves, their families and their communities.

Community Partner:
Hmong Farmers

Community Experience:
In this course you will meet and interview a Hmong woman and her family about their experience coming to, and living in America. You will work with a group to create a short presentation that will be shared at a campus event celebrating these individuals.
ICK
Women's and Gender Studies 232Q3: Inclusivity and Diversity on University Campuses (XC)
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to academia and whether and how it serves diverse populations, with particular focus on women, the LGBTQ community, and multicultural groups. The course focuses on the history and mission of these centers and their current role in shaping campus climate and increasing access for historically underrepresented and/or marginalized groups.

Community Partner:
UW Oshkosh Women's Center, the LGBTQ Resource Center and the Multicultural Education Center

Community Experience:
You will interview the Centers and create a video and reflective piece.
ICK