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Specifications on courses related to Service Learning and Practicum at University of Massachusetts Lowell

Partial List

Faculty

Department

Course

Type of Students

Specifications

Nicole Champagne

Craig Slatin

 

Mansoureh Tajik

 

Joel Tickner

 

 Beverly Volicer

Community Health and

Sustainability

Health Education Practicum

Undergraduate Seniors

Internship is required in a senior’s spring semester. The internship is 32 hours per week. Students are partnered with an agency or organization that is associated with the specific area of health education they are most interested in (i.e. administration, after-school program, community health center, HIV, elder services, etc.) The student is supervised by a professional in the field as well as a faculty member at the University.

Craig Slatin

Community Health and Sustainability

Politics of Health

(Spring Semester)

Undergraduate

 Class Projects

Nicole Champagne

Craig Slatin

 

Mansoureh Tajik

 

Joel Tickner

 

 Beverly Volicer

Community Health and

Sustainability

Health Education Service Learning

Undergraduate Seniors

Students will be expected to participate in a pre-determined community health project happening in Merrimack Valley for a minimum of 40 hours. During the course of this experience, students will provide the community health organization with their time, knowledge, and effort, and will, in return, gain tremendous experience in the organization, development, implementation, and/or evaluation of Community Health Education and Promotion Projects.

Kay Doyle

Brian Keith

 

Community Health and Sustainability

Medical Technology Practicum

Undergraduate

 

Kay Doyle

Brian Keith

Clinical Laboratory and Nutritional Sciences 36.420 Clinical Hematology 

36.430 Clinical Immunohematology

36.450 Clinical Chemistry

36.451 Clinical Urinalysis

36.410 Clinical Microbiology

36.483/4 Senior Research

36.493 Medical Technology/ Clinical Laboratory Sciences Directed Study

36.494 Directed Research in Nutrition

36.493 Senior Research in Nutrition

 

Undergraduate .5 Internships in Clinical Hematology, Clinical Chemistry, Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine (Clinical Immunohematology), Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Urinalysis in various medical labs in Northeastern Massachusetts,  Boston area and  Southern New Hampshire .  Also Directed Study and Senior Research in all undergraduate options

John Duffy

School of Engineering

  Engineering 

All Categories

Service Learning

 

See: http://slice.uml.edu/

 

 

 

Frederick Lewis

Political Science 

Practicum

Undergraduate

75-100 hours of practical experience. 

 

Stephanie Chalupka

Nursing 

Role Transition Practicum (it is one out of 4 practicum courses offered)

Undergraduate

18 hours per week clinical experience

Kay Roberts

Music 

Conducting Practicum

Graduate

Under the supervision of qualified teachers, curriculum directors, and faculty of the Music

Richard Ackerman

Graduate School of Education (Education Administration Online)

Practicum in Leadership

Graduate

Online course

Anita Greenwood

Graduate School of Education

 

Practicum

(7 different types of practicum?)

Graduate

 

John Lebaron

Charles Christensen (Practicum Supervisor)

Year Long Practicum

Nancy Selleck

 

Melissa  Pennell

 

English 

 

 

English 

 

Practicum Theatre

 

 

Practicum – Writing and English Study

Undergraduate

 

 

Undergraduate

 

 

 

Part-time writing internship

James Coates

Art 

Practicum

Undergraduate

The intent of the practicum experience is to provide an occasion for investigation of a community, social, cultural or artistic area and/or for learning of skills through temporary placement in the field. All Practicum Experiences must be approved by the Art Department, and may be repeated to a maximum of nine credit hours.

Jehanne Gavarini

Arno R.

Minkkinen

Karen Roehr

James W. Veatch

Walter Wright

Philip Moss

Regional Economic and Social Development 

Practicum

Graduate

 

Nina Coppens

 

 

 

Psychology Community Service Undergraduate Psychology Major Students take on an applied role in the community where they have the opportunity to provide meaningful service to individuals, groups, or communities.  Number of service hours by student per semester 30 to 90.  Can extend over two semesters.

William Burke

Criminal Justice (Continuing Education and online courses)

The Paralegal Practicum/Internship

Undergraduate

 

 

Meg Bond

 

Nina Coppens

 

Community

Social Psychology

Year-long Practicum

Graduate

This Practicum

allows students to apply, integrate, and evaluate the information and skills they have acquired in their masters-level academic course work; and

To gain new understandings and competencies as community social psychologists while contributing to a field setting

10-12 hours a week from September to May (including Winter break and Spring break)

Supervised field work

 

Nichole Champagne

Community Health and Sustainability

Service Learning

Undergraduate

 

Diana Archibald

English

Service Learning

Undergraduate

This capstone project places student volunteers in local agencies to serve as writers. Students have created handbooks, written grant proposals, developed classroom materials and worked on websites for youth organizations, shelters, museums and other non-profit groups in the city.

Melissa M. Pennell

J. Stephen Collins Accounting Internship 

(Accounting internship 60.479)

Undergraduate Students find their own accounting-related job, usually with assistance from dept. and/or career services. Minimum requirements are 10-15 hours/week for 12-15 weeks. Student completes two reports (interim and final) and I conduct a site visit to the job site. Final grade is satisfactory/unsatisfactory based on the content/timeliness/quality of the two reports (60%) and a supervisor's evaluation (40%).

Brooke Hargreaves Heald

 

 

Yi Yang

Management

Service Learning

- Human Resource Management 66.310  - Labor and Diversity 66.450)

 

Role Play & Class Projects

Strategic Management &

Starting a New Venture

 

 

 

 

 

In-class role play exercise, class project, interview, simulation, case analysis and discussion

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