{"id":2514,"date":"2013-06-03T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T18:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2022-03-24T14:13:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:13:38","slug":"building-a-community-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/building-a-community-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Building A Community Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2515\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2515\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/06\/ngage-Community-Course.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2515 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/06\/ngage-Community-Course.jpg\" alt=\"     Creators and members of the capstone course &quot;Engaged Community Membership&quot;\" width=\"350\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/06\/ngage-Community-Course.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/06\/ngage-Community-Course-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Creators and members of the capstone course &#8220;Engaged Community Membership&#8221; included (l-r): front row&#8211;Dan Kilburn and Alex Armstrong; back row&#8211;Jensen Sprowl, Marissa Rossman, Kiran Cunningham, Sara Haverkamp, Kami Cross, and Nicole Allman. Not pictured are Chris Cain and Ellen Conner. Cunningham is a member of the Class of 1983. Everyone else is a member of the Class of 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The seniors taking the class, &#8220;Engaged Community Membership&#8221; (see photo), can build more than a good retaining wall in the College\u2019s Grove area. They also can build a valuable course. And they did&#8211;their own capstone course.<\/p>\n<p>In the winter quarter some 50 interested seniors met to begin to plan a &#8220;Senior capstone&#8221; course, one that would reflect the best thinking of seniors about a course that\u00a0 structures reflection on their previous three and two-thirds years of academic and experiential rigor. The result of this winter planning was the spring quarter pass-fail class: &#8220;Engaged Community Membership.&#8221; The notion of community became the theme, according to class member and anthropology-sociology major <strong>Nicole Allman \u201913<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The class eventually attracted nine seniors representing some 10 majors and Professor of Anthropology <strong>Kiran Cunningham \u201983<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We determined the course goals, set projects, and created the syllabus,&#8221; said Allman. &#8220;We focused on skill-based, concrete ideas surrounding the concept of community,&#8221; she added. Two projects in particular became the core of the course&#8211;a senior class recipe and cook book, tapping the experience of the Class of 2013 both on- and off-campus, including extending families throughout the world; and a landscaping and retaining wall project in the College\u2019s Grove area.<\/p>\n<p>Allman loved the class for both its hands-on and reflective qualities. &#8220;It was a valuable capstone experience that drew out and extended what we\u2019d learned in the classroom and out over the past three years,&#8221; she said. &#8220;For me it clarified what it means to build a community and provided a blueprint for doing so that I can use to become a part of new communities.&#8221; The cookbook, she added, will be published (electronically) and shared with classmates and wider audiences.<\/p>\n<p>More information access the project will be shared in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seniors taking the class, &#8220;Engaged Community Membership&#8221; (see photo), can build more than a good retaining wall in the College\u2019s Grove area. 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included (l-r): front row&#8211;Dan Kilburn and Alex Armstrong; back row&#8211;Jensen Sprowl, Marissa Rossman, Kiran Cunningham, Sara Haverkamp, Kami Cross, and Nicole Allman. Not pictured are Chris Cain and Ellen Conner. Cunningham is a member of the Class of 1983. Everyone else is a member of the Class of 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The seniors taking the class, &#8220;Engaged Community Membership&#8221; (see photo), can build more than a good retaining wall in the College\u2019s Grove area. They also can build a valuable course. And they did&#8211;their own capstone course.<\/p>\n<p>In the winter quarter some 50 interested seniors met to begin to plan a &#8220;Senior capstone&#8221; course, one that would reflect the best thinking of seniors about a course that\u00a0 structures reflection on their previous three and two-thirds years of academic and experiential rigor. The result of this winter planning was the spring quarter pass-fail class: &#8220;Engaged Community Membership.&#8221; The notion of community became the theme, according to class member and anthropology-sociology major <strong>Nicole Allman \u201913<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The class eventually attracted nine seniors representing some 10 majors and Professor of Anthropology <strong>Kiran Cunningham \u201983<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We determined the course goals, set projects, and created the syllabus,&#8221; said Allman. &#8220;We focused on skill-based, concrete ideas surrounding the concept of community,&#8221; she added. 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