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Service-learning can be part of the First-Year Odyssey Program (fyo.uga.edu) as well. This program gives first-year students meaningful interactions with a faculty member, and introduces students to learning/academics as well as to how teaching and learning inside and outside the classroom relate to UGA’s service, teaching and research missions.

Of the over 300 courses offered during 2011-12, some 24 incorporated service-learning activities. See below for a listing of these courses.

FYO Courses with Service-Learning, Fall 2011-Spring 2012

Instructor	Course Title	SL Component
Azain, M.	"What are Those People Gonna Eat Next Week?"	The seminar will include a service-learning component where students spend time at the Northeast Georgia Food Bank.
Berle, D.	Grow Where You are Planted: Building Community Through Gardening	Through a special service-learning activity, students will experience first-hand the role the University can play, through research, teaching and outreach, in working toward improved access to healthy food.
Bridges, R.	Everything the Law Allows: Pre-Law Learning Community	The seminar structure of the fall semester is replaced in the spring with a student designed and executed service-learning project.
Calabria, A.	Educational Gardens	The Educational Garden is an excellent resource for enhancing real world experiences of k-12 students in discovering the natural processes of environmental science.
Cassity, P.	Global Engagement Learning Community	The seminar structure of the fall semester is replaced with an active service-learning democratic classroom experience during the spring where students design, execute and sustain service projects. The project(s) pursued result in measurable impacts and lasting benefits.
Cooper, D.	The Ropes to Skip and the Ropes to Know	The class will meet in various locations around campus and in the city of Athens, including a service-learning activity to help the students see how the learning environment is not confined to just a classroom.
Crowe, D.	Don't Drink the Water - Water Quality Assessment in the Athens Area	We will examine surface water quality in the Athens area by sampling and analyzing several local streams and rivers.
Fuhrman, N.	Environmental Education 101: Using Nature to Inspire Action	This course is designed to introduce students to teaching methods used by environmental educators. Students will be given opportunities to handle live animals, use animals during informal presentations, interact with zoo professionals, and assist in leading a popular outdoor environmental education activity
Glenn, T.	Bad DNA	We will read popular and scientific literature, listen to each other and public speakers, research popular media, and engage in service by sharing what we learn via speaking, writing, and electronic media.
Huber, M.	Project Leadership and Outcome-Directed Thinking	To introduce students to UGA’s service mission, students will apply what they learn about project management and outcome-directed thinking to complete a service-oriented project.
James, J.	Learning with Young Children	This service-learning seminar involves a semester-long field study at nearby Barrow Elementary School.
Kalivoda, T.	UGA: Outside the Classroom	In this seminar, you will learn how you can connect your academic-learning experiences and your own personal growth to helping/serving people who live in the Athens area, in Georgia, and around the world.
Kaplan, B.	Taking Spanish Outside the Box: Practical Use of Spanish and Cultural Awareness Through Community Involvement	The seminar will use service-learning as a pedagogical tool. Students will help recruit and tutor Latino adults with little or no schooling in their countries of origin.
Kisaalita, W.	Things You Can (or Should Not) Do to End World Poverty	Students will learn what it is to be an engaged scholar in the context of global service-learning and will be exposed to global service-learning opportunities at UGA.
Knauft, D.	Organic Gardening.	For this seminar, students will be growing their own organic produce
Kolomer, S.	Careers in Aging	In addition, students will participate in service-learning activities with older adults in the community.
Markewitz, D.	Science for Sustainability	We will consider ongoing activities on the UGA campus with hopes of developing our own proposals to improve campus sustainability.
Mativo, J.	Alternative Energy and Sustainability: Hype or Real?	For the final project, students will work in teams to tackle and develop solutions for an energy problem for a community of their choice in a given region of the world.
Matthews, P.	Service-Learning Tutoring with Latino Children	In this seminar, students will link learning about multicultural education and tutoring theory with direct experiences with English-learning and Latino children in after-school tutoring settings.
Mueller, M.	Taking the Pulse on Your Local Environment	It will help them develop community mapping skills, environmental monitoring or citizen science skills, and an understanding of the cultural traditions around food livelihood.
Singh, A.	Social Justice and Activism	Experiential activities will be used to explore systemic barriers and challenges to social justice change, self-care commitments, and community-building issues involved in social justice and activism work.
Tingler, S.	Music Learning Community Seminar	Events, issues and movements are in turn discussed within a framework of responsible citizenship and its expression through service-learning.
White, C.	Public Service and Emergency Preparedness	This seminar will discuss the impact of natural and man-made disasters on individuals and communities and explore the various opportunities for students to assist with emergency preparedness planning.
Wilder, S.	Citizen Artists: Community-Based Art and Local Hunger	In this seminar, students will engage with local food issues by participating in an arts-based service-learning project linked to UGA’s Campus-Community Kitchen Project

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