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Active Citizenship in an Urban Community: Race, Class, Power, and Politics (AS 131) - Students work 3 hours per week in a Chinatown nonprofit community organization while taking an American studies course focused on race, culture, power, and politics
Anthropology/AMER 183-01: Urban Borderlands - This community-based research seminar integrates academic and experiential learning in an ongoing (since 2001) project documenting the history and development of Cambridge and Somerville’s Latino communities, and their interactions
with other resident and new immigrant groups.
Environmental Law (UEP/CEE 207) - Students are introduced to environmental law and the regulatory process. A significant portion of the course is a community research project focusing on the Mystic Watershed or another Tufts community concern.
Field Projects: Planning and Practice (UEP 255) - Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP) Graduate students integrate theory and practice by working on real-world challenges in their areas of interest.
The Fulcrum Institute- this program aims to prepare a group of Educators in Science who will implement and lead research-centered science learning and teaching in their schools and districts. Participants advance their professional knowledge and status through the Institute’s credit-bearing, three-graduate-course sequence which focus on investigations in physical science and the teaching of science in K-8 classrooms.
Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies (PJS 1) - Students participate in group projects for 10-12 hours over a two week period at organizations while studying the concepts and theory of social activism in semester-long course
Jumpstart -Early childhood program pairs college students with preschool children at risk in Head Start and other low-income preschools to help prepare them to succeed when they enter school.
SEEP: Science Elementary Education Partners - Undergraduates are placed in elementary and middle schools to do hands-on science activities with students in the classroom
Sociology/PJS 111: Social Change & Community Organizing- Students will explore local community organizations and local organizing, and gain hands on experience in a community organizing project
Sociology/PJS 130: Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality -This course studies current census and other data describing inequality today, looks at egalitarian belief systems, and considers ideological justifications for inequality. Optional community placement arranged by professor in Somerville and other local organizations whose work connects to topic of the course.