26 courses with the subject CVIN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CVIN 100Introduction to Civic Innovation4.0
Civic Innovation Area Selection 3-4 3.0 Civic Innovation Skills Seminars 8 3.0 Total Credits 15-16 6.0 Civic Innovation Area Selection 3-4 Elective Credits 3-4 36-37 One course from Place, Politics and Policy area OR one course from Diversity Studies area Place, Politics, and Policy Area Item # Title Semester Semester Hours Hours CVIN 312 Politics and Public Policy 3.0 3.0 ECON 262 Environmental and Natural 3.0
The work of community building and citizenship involves the practice and use of many different skills. This course allows students to develop proficiency across a range of areas necessary for the organization and implementation of community projects and initiatives, including, but not limited to, those related to project leadership and management, making public presentations, and conducting community- based conversations and interviews. Semester Hours 3.0
Students make public presentations, engage in public debate on current civic issues and questions, and facilitate collaborative planning process focused on bringing innovative solutions to a local problem. Students develop a personal results eportfolio to be utilized in project based work across the Emory & Henry curriculum. Semester Hours 1.0
The work of community building and citizenship involves the practice and use of many different skills. This course allows students to develop proficiency across a range of areas necessary for leading community groups, organizations, and projects, including those related to staff development and volunteer recruitment, fundraising, grant writing, and program evaluation and assessment, among others. Semester Hours 3.0
Students apply best practices of innovative leadership to nonprofit organizational issues, including governance, board structure and effectiveness, staff development, volunteer recruitment. Students use GIS technology to support prototyping and programming. Semester Hours 1.0
Students understand the difference between conventional funding such as grants from foundations and funders who act as investors in innovative responses to problems, questions, and issues, looking for a return on the investment. Students accommodate and address both opportunities. Semester Hours 1.0 140
Students will learn how to prototype innovative responses to community needs and issues, and acquire skills for assessing those efforts by learning from successes, failures, and mistakes with an emphasis on knowledge creation for further innovation. Semester Hours 1.0
Addressing an identified civic issue or question, students apply a range of both quantitative and qualitative research methods to identify innovative ways to achieve tangible outcomes for a community. Semester Hours 3.0
By examining the interface between politics, public policy, private sector business, citizen activism, and the complex dynamics of place, students articulate an understanding of the history, culture, and status of the people Appalachia. Students apply the understanding to contemporary public issues in Appalachia and develop innovative responses, creative strategies, and outcomes. May have a travel component. Semester Hours 3.0
In the contexts of the five boroughs of New York, students examine and articulate the relationship between urban society and the built environment, with particular focus on the effects of that relationship on civic innovation for social justice. Students apply their understanding to contemporary urban contexts, including New York, and to local rural communities. Has a travel component. Semester Hours 3.0
Based on identified community issues, student teams write a public policy to address the issue. Students articulate the role of citizens in policy formation and the political process. Students equip persons and groups to be active participants in the processes of policy formation and enforcement. Students demonstrate understandings of the ways that public policy is formulated and implemented in the United States; the role of elected officials, bureaucrats, interest groups, and social movements in setting policy priorities and writing law; and the differences between the policy process at the national, state, and local levels of government. Semester Hours 3.0
In the face of increasing polarization around issues of religion in the public sphere, what tensions and possibilities impact American political life and the development of public policy? This course will address the role of religion in public life, exploring the ways religion shapes perspectives about public policy issues related to gender, families, sexuality, science, race immigration, education, and work, among others. Consideration will be given to the impact of religious views on the democratic process and related institutions, including the role of religion in social movements and the implications of the rise of Christian nationalism. Semester Hours 3.0
In the face of increasing polarization around issues of religion in the public sphere, what tensions and possibilities impact American political life and the development of public policy? This course will address the role of religion in public life, exploring the ways religion shapes perspectives about public policy issues related to gender, families, sexuality, science, race immigration, education, and work, among others. Consideration will be given to the impact of religious views on the democratic process and related institutions, including the role of religion in social movements and the implications of the rise of Christian nationalism. Semester Hours 3.0 141
While engaged in a significant leadership on a major collaborative project, drawing on the work already accomplished in the CVIN program, students deploy entrepreneurial leadership skills, developing innovative solutions to identified problems and opportunities, to achieve tangible outcomes on the project. This serves as one part of the two part capstone experience. Semester Hours 6.0 , Prerequisites Senior status and instructor permission.
Civic innovative work focused on achieving identified outcomes for an organization, agency, or community, jointly supervised by department and a proven civic innovator. A Civic Project, depending on scope of work and ambition of outcomes, may carry between two and six hours credit with the permission of the program director. Credit hours will be determined before the launch of the civic project and will reflect the scope of work required to achieve the identified outcomes. Semester Hours 6.0
