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Bridging the Gap in Education: At-Risk Students in Court Community Schools
- Ashley TorresEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
This project aims to demonstrate to educators about students being a product of their own environment by observing the Humboldt Office of Education’s-Court Community Schools’ classroom environments. These observations will be compared to a variety of different learning styles that work best with at-risk youth. These learning styles would be recommended ways for educators to help bridge the gap between at-risk students’ academic and social skills in traditional-learning classroom settings.
Bridging the Gap: Environmentalism & the Military
- Samantha WeeksEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
The United States military has a long and well documented history of environmental degradation, contamination, and environmental injustice. Today, the U.S. military has taken steps to attempt control, regulation, and conservation in a growing environmental sector. Current relations between environmentalists and military personnel are still plagued with contention. This has created a stigma on bases about environmentalists and their contributions to military base lives. By reconciling my knowledge of the military and the environment with the tools of an environmental studies major I hope to show ways in which we can improve the relationship with the military and environment.
Broken Spirits Rising: Grief Support Group for those Who Have Experinced the Murder of a Loved One
- Francine SchulmanSocial workGraduate Student
I am interning at the District Attorney's Victim Witness program located in Eureka California as an advocate. There has been a long standing need for a grief support group for those who have lost a loved one to murder. As a mother of a murdered daughter I understand how important a grief support group becomes for this population. This unique need has become my community project focus and passion for those who've experienced complicated grief related to homicide. Broken Spirits Rising can offer people who are grieving a supportive environment in which to work through their grief when,for many of them there may be few places in their lives in which they can get this support and be themselves
Building Community Through The Sustainable Practitioners Directory
- Elena KennedyEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
Climate change, the most pressing issue of our contemporary world, will not be addressed without coming up with local solutions to this global problem. My project focuses on creating an avenue that would allow the campus community and the local community to work together to tackle local concerns. In tandem with HSU’s sustainability office and Center for Community Based Learning we’ve been able to develop such a resource: The Sustainable Practitioners Directory. This directory will allow faculty to easily find community partners working to resolve critical economic, social and environmental challenges, and who are willing to bring their work to the classroom.
Building Support for Study Abroad at HSU
- Samuel LipiecInternational StudiesUndergraduate Student
- Ileanna SpoelstraPolitical ScienceUndergraduate Student
- Dr. Alison HolmesInternational StudiesFaculty
This project will investigate the current support mechanisms for students intending to study abroad and how HSU could both better prepare students for their experience and help re-acclimatize them on their return. This work would involve interviews with those working with students as faculty and staff as well as student interviews about what they would find valuable in terms of support. The aim for this work would be a set of practical proposals for the marketing and outreach to encourage more students to study abroad as well as more aware pre-departure preparation and return programming.
Cahuilla Tribe and the Agua Clientele Case
- Lita SimsEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
My paper will touch on the Coachella Valley Aquifer and the Cahuilla tribe, which is centered around the Agua Caliente case. Specifically focusing on how the Cahuilla tribe gaining rights over the groundwater, could change future cases on groundwater rights.
California Firefighter Annual Magazine
- Ian R. BabbEnglishUndergraduate Student
This project explores previous English 103 coursework on my discourse community, wildland firefighting, and the atmosphere of the career. It provides a sense of guidance and introduction to the discipline.
Capstone Workbook: Leaders, Leadership and Career Skills
- Dr. Alison HolmesPoliticsFaculty
This project will build on the experience of the International Studies Capstone class by taking material used in previous courses and adding active learning exercises that will help students develop leadership and career skills. Each section within the workbook would be free-standing, enabling both students and faculty to use this as a resource outside the context of this specific course or major. The learning outcome of the workbook will be to encourage students to both reflect on, and create their own leadership approach and apply that to their post-university career plans. The overall goal of this project is the creation of an open source, practical classroom tool.
CCAT: Conjoining Social and Natural Systems
- Kelsey SummersEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
As a senior in Environmental Studies I have chosen to complete my service learning capstone project at the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT) since I am one of the co-directors managing the non-profit organization. CCAT is a student run sustainable living demonstration site that utilizes appropriate technology. While at CCAT I have analyzed and critiqued how social systems and natural systems overlay one another creating a sustainable relationship. Living lighter and in tune with the local environment is not only doable but rewarding and beneficial. My service learning project has helped to fill part of the gap between where I am now and where I aim to be professionally.
Cham, The Sacred Dance of Tibet
- Joan EsquibelReligious StudiesUndergraduate Student
During the summer of 2019, I was given the opportunity to participate in the HSU Tibet program under the direction of Anthony Rossi. The program is set up to allow each student a chance to conduct field observations of various topics. My focus, as a Religious Studies major, was set to learn about the various ritualistic practices unique to Tibet Buddhist. The ritual that I have chosen to focus on is the Tibetan Buddhist Cham, a festival dance that we observed in Drigung on June 30. My goal is that my project gives a comprehensive understanding of the religious goals of this ritual through an analysis of the dance formation, history, and meanings to its community.