Students worked with juveniles at the Connecticut Juvenile Training School/Walter G. Cady High. Inmates and Wesleyan students together worked on theater exercises, improvisation, and prepared works including Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and The Tempest by William Shakespeare. For an articles featured in the Hartford Courant: “Wesleyan Students, Youthful Offenders Collaborate In Theater Project” … Read more
North Studio is working on a new project at the Bent of the River Audubon Center located in Southbury, CT. Students will be designing and constructing a bird blind shelter for the community of Southbury and surrounding areas. Read more about the project in the Wesleyan Connection: “Budding Architects Design Wildlife … Read more
A Sukkah is a temporary structure erected every fall for Sukkot – the annual feast of tabernacles – the sukkah offers students a place to pray, study, eat, sleep, dwell, and socialize. In the spring of 2009, North Studio worked with Wesleyan’s … Read more
This civic engagement class will explore how students can be active participants in society by defining and practicing the integration of art and social change. Community organizations find creative solutions to political, social and economic issues in urban, rural and global communities. Community artists have been collaborating with and working for community organizations, service providers, … Read more
This course offers a view of Jewish history in Eastern Europe that takes us beyond the (legendary) shtetl and into a complex, more textured world of Jews living among Christians from the beginnings of Jewish settlement in the thirteenth century to the contemporary period and Poland’s small Jewish community, trying to reinvent Jewish life in … Read more
This seminar explores critical traditions in education from both theoretical and practical perspectives. We investigate a number of nontraditional educational projects, with a focus on the Center for Prison Education’s (CPE) college in prison initiative. All students will participate in a CPE practicum that will be central to our work, requiring ethnographic research and reflection … Read more
This course will address the role of power, culture, race/ethnicity, gender, and class on the development of schools as a social institution and within school dynamics and pedagogy. We will cover the following topics: philosophical debates about pedagogy with readings from Dewey, Piaget, Skinner, Bruner, and Friere; the origins of schools as an institution; the … Read more
This course explores major approaches to the study of public culture. We will focus on sociological themes including the analysis of the public sphere, urban culture, cultural institutions and policy, urban history, and cultural tourism. Public culture is studied as a contested site at both the national and local levels, as well as an agent … Read more
This course introduces students to translational research in psychology: research that draws on psychological science to inform practice. The course is built around a central case study, the acquisition of numerical concepts in deaf children. We will cover existing research on cognitive and language development, deaf education, and teaching strategies as a means to learn … Read more
A service-learning course that will focus on pedagogical methods in science education for elementary school-aged children. Students in the course design age-appropriate lessons and activities for children. In the service component, course participants will be leaders of after-school science clubs in the Middletown elementary schools. Each semester, the course hosts Science Saturday, a day of … Read more
