Sharpe Courses
Sharpe courses are designed by university faculty to equip our students with community-based participatory research skills, while immersing students in real-world considerations of both practical and philosophical dimensions of social justice and community engagement. In addition to supporting opportunities for community-based learning, our courses aim to hone students' knowledge for working ethically to address pressing concerns through scholarship, action, and participation with and by the communities most impacted by those issues.
* All Sharpe COLL150 or COLL100 Courses are restricted to Sharpe Scholars.
Fall 2022 Courses
*All Sharpe Seminars fulfill either the COLL 150 or COLL100 requirement.*
INTR 150 Living with the Environment (Dr. Dennis Taylor)
This seminar builds a broader conceptualization of community interests . Students learn important principles and concepts to help solve the problem of human impacts on natural systems. We explore the ethical and moral underpinnings of the human place in nature. Students learn the practical knowledge and scientific understanding needed for policy-making. They begin to build solutions for strong environmentally grounded communities. The goal is to envision a space where humans can enjoy the natural capital of their surroundings. Student projects are specific and issue driven. They provide direct practical benefits for community partners. The projects give students opportunities for expanded scope and diversification. |
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KINE 150 Community Health & Research (Dr. Iyabo Obasanjo)
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SOCL 100 Economic Insecurity: The Virginia Eviction Crisis (Dr. Caroline Hanley)
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SOCL 150 Spatial Inequalities (Dr. Salvatore Saporito)
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COLL200 Course
INTR295 W&M Sharpe Community Mapping Project (Dr. Monica D. Griffin)
This course is directly affiliated with the W&M Sharpe Community Mapping Project (hereinafter referred to as the Sharpe Mapping project), led by Dr. Monica D. Griffin and Dr. Shannon White. Students will have the opportunity to use GIS mapping tools (such as ArcGIS and StoryMaps) to make sense of qualitative and quantitative data about WJCC and surrounding areas, organizations, and communities. They will identify and document the particular ways that W&M is situated within a broader system of relationships in Williamsburg-James City County; and they will interact with others (e.g. residents, scholars, leaders, etc.) in local settings to imagine and invite new ways of engaging the region’s past, present, and future for addressing social issues.