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RELG 10: African American Religions - Swarthmore students learn side-by-side, via Zoom, with formerly incarcerated scholars who have recently returned home and are avid followers of a particular religious denomination (a religion that they picked up while incarcerated).
''Davis Project for Peace''
Projects for Peace is a global program that encourages young adults to develop innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues. Along the way, these student leaders increase their knowledge, improve skills, and establish identities as peace-builders and change-makers. Davis Projects for Peace are grassroots activities that address root causes of conflict and promote peace. A hallmark of the Projects for Peace program is its flexibility: proposals may be submitted by any U.S. or international student enrolled at a partner institution; students may be any age or any major; they may implement the project alone or with others; the project may take place anywhere in the world, including in the U.S.
''Lang Center Grant Program''
The Lang Center student grant program mission is to empower students and their partners as they build, implement, and/or sustain impactful solutions to contemporary challenges. These may include services, products, programs, outreach, or processes that enhance social value alongside key stakeholders. Our student grant programs equip grantees to integrate theory, practice, and research throughout their internships, projects, or fellowships.
Award Winning Students, Project Grantee Pipeline, Social Impact Summer Scholarship Partnerships ('''SISS''' is the Lang Center’s most popular summer program, empowering students to add dimension to their undergraduate coursework while advancing a social impact organization's mission, goals, and objectives. In addition to supporting students who identify their own internship placements, the Lang Center cultivates partnerships with organizations that offer placements to Swarthmore students on a regular basis).
''Chester Community Fellowship (CCF)''
The CCF—a signature Lang Center program funded through the Swarthmore Foundation—enhances the capacity of Chester-based community organizations while providing opportunities for student learning. Students hold internships four days a week; on the fifth day, Fellows work together on a project-in-common relevant to the City of Chester. The summer experience focuses on developing each Chester Fellow as a scholar, civic leader, and public servant.
=Faculty Entrepreneurship on Campus=
This course is intended to help students gain a better understanding of the overall startup and venture capital funding landscape, acquire a better working vocabulary of the terms within the industry, and learn how professionals think about building and scaling their startups. There will be a technical component of this course where students learn how to build a landing page for a startup and learn to break down the different technical considerations when it comes to building a software product. We will then conclude with how students can take the next steps in their entrepreneurship education by working at a startup.
''Global Studies Initiative (GSI)'' GSI—co-led by professors Ayse Kaya (Political Science) and Carina Yervasi (French and Francophone Studies)—works in tandem with the interdisciplinary academic program in Global Studies (which the two professors also founded and direct). GSI supports programming that stresses the interaction of the local and the global—that aims to develop knowledge of global issues, connections, and processes as well as potential solutions to global problems. GSI welcomes queries from across campus for programming opportunities that emphasize interdisciplinary approaches to global issues ''Urban Inequality & Incarceration (UII)'' The UII program at the Lang Center is directed by Professor of Political Science Keith Reeves ‘88. UII seeks to explore intersections of race, inequality, mass imprisonment, and policy and their connections to the carceral disparities present in our local and global communities. Its current work centers on incarceration and includes transformative Inside-Out Prison Exchange courses at the State Correctional Institution in neighboring Chester (SCI-Chester); research on the impact of incarceration on children who have an incarcerated parent; sponsored internships; and other student based learning such as directed reading and thesis opportunities. Through this Engaged Scholarship, UII aims to foster opportunities for deep learning, grounded action, and social change. ''Engaged Humanities Studio'' The Lang Center houses Swarthmore College’s Engaged Humanities Studio. The EHS brings together scholars, students, artists, activists, and community members through collaborative projects to address issues of pressing social concern. EHS focuses on experiential, community-based, and critical-making practices that combine humanistic modes of inquiry and understanding with extra-humanities disciplines, non-student communities, and/or pressing social issues that would benefit from humanistic perspectives. This program’s primary focus is to support projects that combine humanities methodologies with collaborative practices and creative or artistic sensibilities to address social issues. More broadly, the program seeks to cultivate a campus community that better understands and appreciates the civic potential of the Arts & Humanities and the role they can play in helping us to shape a more just and compassionate world. =University Techonology Technology Transfer Function=
''Design Thinking Workshop''