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Recap: Celebration of Community Engaged Education 2024
Edit April 18, 2024: This post has been updated to recap our 2024 Celebration of Community Engaged Education event, where we celebrated esteemed community partners and members of our faculty, staff, and student body who have gone above and beyond in their commitment to service within the Upstate. Find original event and program information at…
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Call for Student Nominations: 2024 Community Engagement in Education Awards
Do you know a student who has done outstanding work in their SL/CE courses this semester? Give them a chance to be recognized with an award at our 2024 Celebration of Community Engaged Education! Read on for event details and full nomination instructions for student awards. For faculty/staff and community partner award information, click here.…
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Service Stories Archive: Translating Holocaust Documents (GERM U311)
Introduction to German Translation (GERM U311) was taught for the first time in USC Upstate’s history to eight students in Fall 2019. The focus of the course is on the essential goal of the translator, which is to transmit a living voice from one language, culture and moment to another. By using hands-on teaching techniques, students…
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Service Stories Archive: LGBTQ Oral Histories (SOCY U391 / WGST U398)
This article was originally published in Fall 2019. This spring for the third year running, Dr. Lisa Johnson will teach a special topics course which includes an oral history project offering students an opportunity to connect with the LGBTQ community in the upstate of South Carolina, providing the LGBTQ community a means to share their…
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Service Stories Archive: Marketing Communication Plans (MKTG U352)
This article was originally published in the ’19-’20 academic year. Kim Land’s MKTG U352 – Marketing Communications class services six local small businesses or non-profits in our community every semester through extensive research, evaluation and recommendations that are developed into a full Integrated Marketing Communication plan for their business. Since Fall of 2016, Land and…
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Service Stories Archive: Spread Awareness, Not Disease
This article was originally published in 2020. Spreading Awareness of Various Infectious Diseases and Methods of Disease Control Students in Dr. Ginny Webb’s Microbiology course (BIOL U330) aim to spread awareness of various infectious diseases and methods of disease control. They regularly partner with Oakland Elementary School where microbiology students teach hands-on lessons to kindergarten…