Faculty-Student Collaborative Action Seminar in Urban University-Community Rltn

1 Course Unit

This seminar helps students develop their capacity to solve strategic, real-world problems by working collaboratively in the classroom, on campus, and in the West Philadelphia community. Students develop proposals that demonstrate how a Penn undergraduate education might better empower students to produce, not simply "consume," societally-useful knowledge, as well as to function as caring, contributing citizens of a democratic society. Their proposals help contribute to the improvement of education on campus and in the community, as well as to the improvement of university-community relations. Additionally, students provide college access support at Paul Robeson High School for one hour each week. This is an Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) course. Fall or Spring Also Offered As: HIST 0811, URBS 1780 1 Course Unit