Portland State University Studies | Capstone Courses: Winter Term 2010

CAP: ANIMAL AID GRANTWRITING
Aiding Unwanted Pets Through Grantwriting
Kimberly Mukobi, mukobi@comcast.net
Every day in this country, 30,000 to 40,000 pets are euthanized. Of those, at least eighty percent are adoptable. This capstone allows students to explore the social/cultural dynamics of pet overpopulation, the ethical dilemmas presented by it and the rise of the no kill revolution in the United States. Participants will work with a no kill nonprofit animal shelter to assist them in acquiring grant monies to address the needs of the shelter and expand the shelter's operations. Students will participate in the various levels of grant writing: locating appropriate grantees, ascertaining the shelter's needs, and learning effective grant writing techniques. The end project will be a portfolio of grant proposals addressing current needs of the shelter.

CAP: EFFECTING CHANGE
Being an Effective Change Agent
Heather Petzold, 2hap@comcast.net
This course is for students interested in being effective change agents for the public good. Each student (individually or with others) will take the initiative before the Capstone begins to arrange a project with a community organization. This project may be an existing relationship or one sought for the purpose of this class. A minimum of three working hours per week with the organization is required. During the course, students will be supported and challenged to develop skills in speaking, listening, building relationships, and coordinating action. Through class discussions, practices, reading, and self-observations, students will recognize and explore the four University Studies' goals and make meaning of how they apply to our everyday lives. Each student is expected to bring to the first day of class a confirmation letter from their community sponsor. This letter should include the student's name, the focus and timeframe of the project, a description of the types of people with whom the student will interact, and the sponsor's signature. Permission of instructor required. Contact instructor by e-mail (2hap@comcast.net) for full details regarding course requirements.

CAP: BUS OUTREACH
Business Outreach
Lara Damon, damonld@pdx.edu
This course is about the role of a small business consultant and how small business really works. It will combine lectures, guest speakers, class discussions, and an in-depth consulting project with a small business in North or Northeast Portland.

CAP: CHANGE FOR COMMON GOOD
Change for the Common Good: Project Grow
Vicki Reitenauer, vicr@pdx.edu
In this highly collaborative Capstone, students will work with Project Grow, a program of Port City Development which seeks to enrich and enliven the worlds of adults with developmental disabilities and mental retardation while promoting independence and integration through involvement in organic farming, yoga, music, and art. Students and representatives of the community partner will collectively determine projects that holistically serve both Project Grow's community and our community of Capstone learners. For more information, feel free to contact the instructor, Vicki Reitenauer, at vicr@pdx.edu or 503-725-5847, and/or visit www.growinginalldirections.org.

CAP: COLLABORATIONS
Collaborations: Boys and Girls
Heather Petzold, petzoldh@pdx.edu
This course focuses on the importance of service learning in our community. As a class, we will have the opportunity to discover, evaluate, and reflect on the needs of our community by creating and facilitating educational workshops, mentoring, and exploring fundraising opportunities for the Boys and Girls Club. Students will learn respect for themselves and others as part of a community and will promote teamwork, leadership and problem solving skills. Community issues to be addressed include: listening, intercultural communication, leadership, mediation, and cooperative learning skills. Each student will have the opportunity to mentor at the club site (Meyers Boys and Girls Club) for a minimum of 20 hours for the term during hours of operation (2:30-7:00 p.m. Monday through Friday). As we are working with youth, students will need to pass a background check in order to fulfill the requirements of the course (to be completed on the first day of class).

CAP: COMM ED NUHS
Communication Education: NUHS
Gloria Totten, (503) 725-5384, totteng@pdx.edu
This Capstone explores developing and teaching lesson plans on basic skills such as liberal arts, math, science, art (topics vary). Students will be required to work as an interdisciplinary team, researching information, practicing and presenting course material in a classroom setting (our community partner is New Urban High School). This course requires an out of class commitment of one full day during the end of the term - during school hours (8 am to 4 pm). Contact instructor with questions. No special instructor approval required. Blackboard used for all course materials: syllabus, handouts, assignment descriptions, reading materials.

CAP: COMMUNITY GREENWORKS
Community Greenworks
Cynthia Gomez, gomezc@pdx.edu
This Capstone offers students an analysis of social justice; a framework that promotes successful civic engagement; and an application of these principles in community settings. Students choose from several projects that best fit interests, expertise and schedules, and complete team projects with community partners addressing a pre-determined need and promoting lasting chance in the community. Projects will focus on the three areas of sustainability: social equity, the economy, and the environment.

CAP: COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY
Community Psychology
Keith Kaufman, kaufmank@pdx.edu
This two quarter capstone focuses on applications of basic psychological knowledge and methods to community problems. Students join a work team providing consultation to a community organization or agency. Students have an opportunity to choose from a number of field projects in cooperation with community agencies engaged in social service in the fields of health, education, corrections, welfare, and others. Projects result in products of value to community agencies such as program evaluations, climate studies or volunteer recruitment videos. Students develop consultation and group skills, work collaboratively with community partners, and learn about the field of community psychology.

CAP: CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
Creative Industry: Social Design
Public Pedagogy: The Social Contextualization and Sharing of Learning
Jen Delos Reyes, delosrey@pdx.edu
Following the tradition of free schools, alternative pedagogy and the current proliferation of artist run pedagogical models, students in this course will create free public knowledge sharing platforms based on their own work, research and interests. This class will emphasize the utilization of public space and resources in the Portland area and give free access to education and provide teaching experience. Looking at examples such as Colin Ward and journalist Anthony Fyson's 1973 "Streetwork", which put forward the idea of the use of the urban environment as an educational resource to develop a school department into an integrated community based program of decision making on local urban issues, to more contemporary examples of alternative pedagogical models ranging from Fritz Haeg's Sundown Salon, the Copenhagen Free University, LA's Mountain School, Michael Cataldi and Nil's Norman's The University of Trash, Harrell Fletcher's Come Together talks and Red 76's Laundromat Lectures, students will draw upon their knowledge, skills and interests to create ways to publicly contextualize their knowledge into free shared community learning experiences. These can range from public talks, free schools, workshops, zines and other forms of knowledge distribution. Students will be evaluated primarily on the their thoughtful integration of their project with a community partner of their choosing, or integration into an urban or social context. Students are asked to examine their learning and see the various ways they can connect to their community, contextualize their learning publicly and mobilize themselves and others to share information.

CAP: DOCUMENTING SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
Documenting Sustainability in the Pacific Northwest
James Hillegas, jvhillegas@gmail.com
In 1989, the World Commission on Environment and Development defined sustainable development as "[development that] meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations." As the 21st century progresses, the concepts of sustainable development and sustainability have become increasingly complex. Partnering with Northwest History Network, this class will explore the idea of sustainability by looking at its historical meaning and document sustainable enterprises in the Willamette Valley through the medium of recorded oral history interviews.

CAP: ENDING GLOBAL POVERTY
Ending Global Poverty
Global Partnership for Development: Food Crisis, International DEBT and the MDG's
Pat Rumer, activistap@yahoo.com
The United Nation's Eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG's) seek to halve global poverty by 50% by 2015. 182 nations agreed to these goals in 2000. The first seven goals apply to poor and developing nations such as access to education and health care while Goal 8 is directed to wealthier nations, including the United States and commits these nations to increase their foreign aid and to cancel the debt owed by poor nations.
The current food and oil crisis affects one billion poor people around the world. The UN World Food Program has targeted countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean who are in need of critical assistance. Poverty reduction and sustainable development are clearly linked to trade, debt relief and aid.
At the same time more than half of African nations continue to spend more on debt than ealth care for their citizens. Sub-Saharan Africa pays almost $1.5 billion in debt services to the wealthy nations and international financial institutions. The UN's Millennium development Office prepares annual reports on poor countries' progress towards achieving Goals 1-7 and works with wealthier nations to encourage and persuade them to fulfill their commitments around debt, trade and aid.
This Capstone will focus on three countries, Haiti, Liberia and Vietnam that are struggling to meet their debt service payments while at the same time there is increased hunger and poverty among its citizens. The course will compare alternative strategies for the poor to increase agricultural sustainability and develop economically - private market, direct aid (grants not loans) and the role of the international financial institutions. Students will work with local community partners such as Mercy Corps, Medical Teams International, the UN Association, Jubilee OR (debt cancellation), and socially responsible businesses.

CAP: EVAL CRIM JUSTICE
Evaluating Criminal Justice Interventions
Don Trapp, don.trapp@co.multnomah.or.us
Project 57 is multi-agency, multi-faceted program to manage what have been identified as chronic offenders in Multnomah County, Oregon. The purpose of this Capstone is to develop and undertake an evaluation of this program from both a process and outcome perspective. Students will work with all stakeholders in this program at various sites in the community. The final product will be a summary, presented orally and in writing, of the research findings.

CAP: GIRLPOWER
Girl Power
Sally Eck, ecks@pdx.edu
In this course, we will be working with our community partner, the local non-profit feminist bookstore IN OTHER WORDS and their sister organization, The Women's Community Education Project. Our project is to coordinate a series of *rap sessions* with local teen girls about current issues in their lives. We will use these group conversations to encourage the girls to become a part of our ZINE project -- where they will write, edit, and publish a grassroots, mini-magazine with our class. Please take a look at the enclosed outreach plan for more detailed objectives. In preparation for this project, we will read feminist scholarship about teenage girls as well as focus groups and zine publishing methodologies.

CAP: GLOBAL PDX-AFRICAN CHILDREN
Global Portland - African Children
Sam Gioia, gioia@pdx.edu
In this capstone PSU student will support Somali Bantu refugee children with their efforts to learn English and master basic course content in schools. Our class sessions at PSU will help students to understand immigration, refugees, cultural issues, and the challenges that immigrant youth face in schools. Each student will assist about 4 hours per week in one of the following options:
1)   In-class tutoring support at Hosford Middle School (SE 28th & Division) on Tuesdays    and/or Thursdays during regular school hours
2)   Leadership of an afterschool homework club (SE 28th and Powell) from 3 to 5:15    Mondays and Wednesdays
3)   Leadership of an afterschool homework club (SE 28th and Powell) from 3 to 5:15    Tuesdays and Thursdays.

This course provides valuable experience for students who are in Pre-education, Social work, Child and Family Studies, International Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and Applied Linguistics. Attendance at the first day of class is required to be part of this capstone.

CAP: GRANTWRITING ENV AD
Grantwriting for Environmental Advocacy
Celine Fitzmaurice, celine@pdx.edu
Grant writing skills are critical to the survival of many non-profit environmental organizations. In this course you will learn grant writing skills by developing real proposals for a local environmental non-profit. The rich history of citizen-based environmental advocacy in the US will play a central role in class discussions and reflective writing assignments throughout the term.

CAP: GRANT WRTG NAT AM PRES
Grantwriting for Native American Preservation
Beth Aileen Lameman (Dillon), beth@bethaileen.com
Grants support Native American cultural preservation by funding educational and archival programs. In this course you will learn grant writing skills by developing real proposals for a Native American related non-profit. Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. is a not for profit corporation committed to Native American cultural preservation, education, and race reconciliation. Working in collaboration with diverse cultural organizations and educational institutions, WOTE records and preserves oral tradition and cultural arts of exemplary indigenous elders, historians, storytellers and song carriers. WOTE shares these teachings with younger generations of Native Americans as well as public audiences of all cultures via the Wisdom of the Elders Radio series, the Turtle Island Storytellers Network online speaker's bureau for Native American oral cultural artists, and the Northwest Indian Storytellers Association.

CAP: IMMIGRATION & WORKFORCE
Immigration & Workforce
Andrew Reed, areed@seworks.org
Classroom topics will include immigration, sociocultural behavior and issues, and workforce development. Students will assist a non-profit workforce development agency called SE Works Inc. Outside of class, students will help to build and/or teach curriculum to help immigrants transition to life in the U.S.

CAP: JPN LANG PROG
Japanese and Chinese Language Program for Elementary Students
Suwako Watanabe, watanabes@pdx.edu
In this Capstone course, students will work with elementary school programs that offer Japanese or Chinese in the Portland area, by assisting a classroom teacher and developing teaching materials.
Students will also work on promotion of foreign language education at the elementary level. The class will address various issues pertaining to foreign language learning and teaching, including US language policy, multiple intelligences, Japanese/Chinese language/culture, and diversity. At least Second Year level of language proficiency is recommended, but not a requirement.

CAP: JUVENILE JUSTICE
Juvenile Justice
Deb Arthur, debs@pdx.edu
This Capstone partners with the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice, Juvenile Services Division. Through their work in the community, as well as through supportive academic activities, students in this Capstone will have the opportunity to deeply explore current issues in juvenile justice. Successful background checks will be required for students to be able to work directly with youth, although are not required for participation in this Capstone.

CAP: LEARNING GARDENS
Learning Gardens and Civic Affairs
Judy BlueHorse-Skelton, judyblue@pdx.edu
Students in this Capstone will do community outreach work for the Learning Gardens Laboratory that serves the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood in SE Portland. Students will be working to enhance community participation in the gardens, and their work may include developing materials to assist in the promotion, understanding and management of the garden, conducting research to support outreach efforts, and/or directly working with kids, their parents, and community members, to include them in the work of the garden. Students will also gain experience tending the garden. Class time will focus on issues of our food system and civic involvement. Some scheduled class meetings will take place off campus at the Learning Gardens, so please schedule accordingly. Some physical outdoor work and additional service time outside of class (about three hours per week) will be required.

CAP: LGBTQ HISTORY
LGBTQ History
Pat Young, younghst@spiritone.com, pjyoung@pdx.edu
Learn about local queer history from the folks who paved the way and help preserve their stories. This course introduces methods of collecting and preserving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer history. Our community partner is the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN). Students will do an oral history and help process an archival collection. Students will also learn about local queer history including the anti-gay ballot initiatives, early gay-rights groups and social groups.

CAP: LINKING GENERATIONS
Linking the Generations, Communication, Aging and Society
Cindy Koonz, teachcin16@hotmail.com
Students will engage with older adults to complete a variety of life history projects. Students will address their assumptions and stereotypes toward the aging population and will reflect upon personal barriers and successes in the intergenerational communication process. Communication issues will be addressed in the areas of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intercultural communication. In addition to the community work, the course will focus on interdisciplinary discussions, lectures, and activities to increase awareness of the older population. This is an evening course with travel to off campus site and a background check required. Fingerprinting also may be required. Contact instructor upon registration to complete paperwork prior to start date. Processing can delay work in the community.

CAP: LIVING BEYOND WAR
Living Beyond War: Challenge to Change Our Thinking About War
Debbie Kaufman, kaufmand@pdx.edu
Students will be challenged to examine their assumptions about war and to become part of an alternative solution to conflict--personally, in our community, and in the world. In this course, we will examine the guiding principles and core practices of Beyond War, and integrate them with other texts and our own experiences. The class is discussion-based and relies on significant reading and participation. Topics will include: the interdependent nature of our living system; the effects of using war as a method for resolving problems; alternatives to war, including nonviolent conflict resolution processes; and, cooperation and collaboration among peoples and nations. Projects will include various roles in researching, developing and editing materials for the organization.

CAP: MARKETING-MICRO EN
Marketing - Micro Enterprise
JoAnn Siebe, siebeconsulting1@mac.com
During this Capstone, PSU students will work with the Community Partner as a marketing resource team. During class sessions students will examine literature, film and other resources that speak to different aspects of marketing for micro businesses. They will discuss the marketing challenges facing these businesses. Students will work collaboratively on mutually agreed upon projects that are beneficial and satisfying to both PSU and the Community Partner.

CAP: MEDIA LITERACY
Media Literacy
Mark Oldani, moldani@riverdale.k12.or.us
Media literacy is the study of the effect that various mediums have on the information that is being transmitted. The investigation of issues related to media crosses disciplinary boundaries and is a focus of some of the current K-12 curriculum. Class participants will learn about the impact of commercial/popular media on themselves and their community and develop various approaches to address the impact of media on their community. Class members will work directly with teachers and students by planning and presenting lessons in a middle or high school classroom. The community based learning will, in all likely hood, occur outside of class time.

CAP: MED GLBL HEALING
Meditation for Global Healing
Julie Porter, jporter@pdx.edu
Qigong is an ancient Chinese meditative healing practice that encompasses a philosophy of living with a quiet mind, open heart, and in service to others. This capstone provides an opportunity to explore the personal and community implications of this healing practice and explore the concept of personal awareness and social responsibility. Working with a community partner gives you the chance to be of service to others and learn about their needs in the context of the course material.

CAP: MONUMENTAL WOMEN
Monumental Women: Portland History on the Web & on the Ground
Jan Dilg, dilgj@pdx.edu
In this course students will explore and document the ways that women are memorialized and remembered for their contributions to the cultural, educational, economic, and civic development of the city of Portland. Encompassing the entire history of Portland, students have the opportunity to research and write about a historical or contemporary woman, women's organization, or develop ways to expand the educational potential of this web site to the broader community. During the term, students are introduced to historical research, writing, and editing strategies that will culminate in students writing a biography on the subject of their choosing. These biographies are posted on the website Women City Builders,http://www.womencitybuilders.org/ www.wcb.ws.pdx.eduThis Capstone is partnered with the Walk of the Heroines, a group dedicated to honoring women in a cultural park on the Portland State University campus. Part of the content of the Women City Builders web site will be integrated into the educational kiosk of the Walk of the Heroines www.woh.pdx.edu.

CAP: MULTIMEDIA
Multimedia Production
Robert Bremmer, bremmer@pdx.edu
The Multimedia capstone develops skills in dynamic group communication at multiple levels through learning to build a promotional and/or educational website and blog for a community partner or community issue. We divide into six functional areas: Client Liaison/Research, Content Development, Creative, Technical, Marketing and Coordination. Students interact with the public or client and each other, gather information and knowledge, develop content and design and build the look and feel as well as navigational structure, and make decisions about how best to present the clients needs in a focused manner, and how best to harness technology to develop the project. The marketing component seeks to increase readership and site use. At the conclusion of the class students will possess a journal which shows how they learned and grew though the development of a final product starting from the conceptual idea stage, and will be able to show at least one working URL with web analytics in use within the intended community. Two examples are: www.womenshealthawareness.blogspot.com which was a one term project and www.ecomerge.blogspot.com which is an ongoing online class project. Both these examples have links to additionally built websites. This class is taught in both an on-campus and fully online version.

CAP: MUSIC IN SCHL
Music in the Schools
Susan Booth Larson, susanblarson@gmail.com
Help with the decline in music education programs in area elementary schools by developing and teaching lessons dealing with music: for example, "The Science of Music", the "History of Music", "Music around the World", or lessons dealing with rhythm, notation, and other musical specifics.

CAP: IMMIGRANT WORKER
Organizing and Defending Immigrant Workers
Michael Chamberlain, mrchambe@pdx.edu
This course will explore the contentious issues surrounding immigration and the growth of an immigrant workforce in the United States. It will also explore the strategies used by immigrant workers and their leaders to defend immigrant rights and to improve the working conditions of immigrants. In particular, the course will explore the following questions:
·   Does U.S. public opinion and public policy contradict our immigrant past?
·   What role have immigrant workers played in forging the U.S. labor movement?
·   How have employers used immigrant workers to further their economic and political interests?
·   How has xenophobia been used to further political agendas?
·   How have immigrant workers organized and fought for their rights?
·   What are the competing strategies for organizing and defending immigrant workers today?

This is a hybrid course with rigorous online interaction and fieldwork taking the place of reduced seat-time in the classroom.

CAP: WAR CRIMES IN CAMBODIA
Peace and Reconciliation in the 21st Century: An onsite examination of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge War Crimes Tribunal
Chris Carey, ccarey@pdx.edu
This course will examine the Cambodian Khmer Rouge War Crimes Tribunal. By working with a local community partner in Cambodia, The Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE). The students will travel to Cambodia for 12 days to observe the war crimes tribunal, interview participants in the tribunals including judges, lawyers, and survivors. The students will work with peers at RULE to collect data and record their observations. Upon returning to Portland State University the students will work to understand, analyze and disseminate their findings to both academic and popular print outlets.

CAP: PORTLAND'S WATER
Portland's Water
Catherine Howells, chowells@pdx.edu
Our community partner for this class is the Portland Water Bureau. This class will focus on the Bull Run watershed, the source of Portland's drinking water, and the workings of the Water Bureau. We will research the history of the water system, current issues, and the citizen activists that have helped to protect the watershed. The class will work with the Water Bureau to develop information products for the public.

CAP: INSIDE OUT PRISON EXC
Prison Exchange: Creating Understanding from the Inside-Out
Amy Spring, springa@pdx.edu
This Capstone course provides an opportunity for a small group of students from PSU and a group of residents from Coffee Creek Correctional facility to exchange perceptions about crime, justice, and the ways in which marginalized communities are affected by public policy. It is a chance for participants to gain a deeper understanding of how income, communities of color are affected by incarceration policies in Oregon and the US. This will be accomplished by marrying theoretical knowledge and practical experiences in weekly meetings extended throughout the term. This course will be held at Coffee Creek located 20 minutes from PSU (carpooling available). The class will complete a project with inmates that will help enhance the lives of those who live at Coffee Creek. Participation requires all students to pass a background check.

CAP: STRAT COMM-PR & NON
Public Relations for Non-Profit Organizations
Courtney L Dillard, cldillard@gmail.com
This Capstone offers students the opportunity to learn key aspects of public relations including audience analysis, message development, medium selection, and campaign evaluation. Our focus will be healthcare reform in Oregon. A key take away from the course is a professional campaign plan which can be used as a work sample in the future.

CAP: PUBLIC RELATIONS
Public Relations for Nonprofits or PR for Nonprofits
Walt Amacher, wseditor@aol.com
In recognition of the need for governmental agencies and nonprofits to access their constituency, this Capstone provides communications training for a selected organization including the following: formation of an organizational communications program, creation of informational and promotional materials, and practical experience in working with the media. Students will learn basic communication theory and apply it to an organization. In addition to textbook materials and class presentations, this course may include guest speakers and field trips to media outlets.

CAP: REDUCE AIR TOXICS PDX
Reducing Toxic Air Pollution in Portland
Dean Atkinson, atkinsond@pdx.edu
Oregon DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality) is using an innovative geographic approach to reduce toxic pollutants in the air we breathe. Air toxics are pollutants suspected or known to cause serious health problems including cancer, birth defects, organ damage and respiratory irritation. Young children, older adults, and people with asthma, lung or heart disease may be more sensitive to the effects of air toxics. As part of this geographic approach, DEQ has identified the Portland region as our first location for developing an area-wide air toxics risk reduction plan. In planning air toxics reductions we are looking at risk holistically from all sources in the Portland Region, and developing an area-wide plan to reduce risk from businesses, engines, and residential activities such as wood burning, in proportion to their contribution to the problem. DEQ is naming the project "Portland Air Toxics Solutions" or "PATS." Under PATS, DEQ will work with a broad group of partners and an advisory committee to develop and implement a ten year air toxics emission reduction plan. Student participants will be involved in facilitation of the mission of the PATS team through research and public dissemination.

CAP: RESEARCH EXPER SCI
Research Experiences in Science
Erik Bodegom, Bodegom@pdx.edu
The purpose of this Senior Capstone will be to provide linkages between the student's academic training in the sciences, specifically in physics and the application of this knowledge in the broader community. In particular, students will obtain experience in solving real life problems as future scientists and educated citizens.
Through an initial phase the students will be educated as to the expectations of the proper methods to solve issues presented by our community partners. This initial phase will focus on presentation, documentation, and ethics expected by the community partners and the broader scientific community.

CAP: SEXUAL & GENDER MINR
Sexual & Gender Minority Youth
Molly Gray, mcg@pdx.edu
It is estimated that 1 in 10 individuals identify as a sexual minority. Often an already challenging stage in identity development, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender & questioning (LGBTQ) youth face a set of issues unique to their daily lives. We examine the paths sexual and gender minority youth navigate in American society, exploring such questions as: What challenges do LGBTQ youth encounter? How do they cope, survive, find understanding & celebrate themselves amidst homophobia and intolerance? How do LGBTQ experiences vary across difference such as race, ethnicity, class, religion, gender and expression? Has the growing strength of political mobilization and visibility of LGBTQ issues affected and/or included the needs of youth? How can youth needs be brokered by social services, families, and the community at large? Our community partner will be the Sexual Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC).

CAP: SEXUAL ASSAULT ED
Sexual Assault on the College Campus
Eden Isenstein, edennaomi@gmail.com
Students in this class will work with the Portland State University Women's Resource Center and their community partners to combat sexual assault. The class will work in teams on projects such as, research, awareness raising/prevention, direct action, and fundraising. Lecture and discussion topics are from a multidisciplinary approach including, advocacy, medical system, criminal justice system, offender management, community response, higher education, and more. By the end of the term students will be able to articulate the definitions and dynamics of sexual violence as well as current issues in the field. Students will also have gained experience and understanding in what it takes to respond to and prevent sexual assault.

CAP: SUS FOOD SYSTEM & ED
Sustainable Food Systems and Educational Farms
Megan Hubbs (Kupko), greenfarmmama@gmail.com
*Due to the nature of this course, it will be held at Learning Gardens Lab (SE 60th Ave & Duke) with the exception of the first class, which will be held at the designated PSU classroom.
The time is ripe to be part of the growing sustainable food movement! This class addresses the current food issues that face urban citizens by holistically engaging students in the many layers of Portland's local food and farm culture. Students will critically analyze the state of our current food systems while being engaged in positive solutions to agricultural-related issues. The community partner and classroom is the Learning Gardens Lab, where students will gain hands-on farming experience, experientially explore their personal connection to food and the land, participate in the Learning Garden programs, and positively contribute to food security in our greater community. Students will also build relationships within the local food network through experiences at Ecotrust, Zenger Farm and the Oregon Food Bank.

CAP: TEACHING ART & SOC CHANGE
Teaching Art and Social Change
Conrad Schumacher, cnarroti@earthlink.net
Some of the essential questions driving the curriculum of this Capstone are: How can Art be a force for social change? What is change and how does it occur? What models of thinking do we use to reflect and structure models of change? What limits, if any, should there be to how we, how Art affects change? What are the differences between change and voice? What are the differences between protest and change? How do Change and Art intertwine and affect our lives? What models of change should we choose and when? And, in the spirit of Paul Loeb and John Steinbeck, When if ever are we NOT responsible for one another? The working Thesis for this class is that for Art, or indeed anything/anyone, to effect change in a society the work/ideas must be palatable to the majority, real and tangible in terms of outcomes and sustainable over time. We never get far when we try to change using hate, anger, force or such "clubs."
This course is open to anyone intrigued with the questions raised by public Art (and possibilities of Art) in our society. This capstone should be of particular value and interest to students who have a desire to teach, create, work collaboratively and inspire. Students will develop Art Literacy lessons to teach/be taught in underprivileged public schools. A web site of these lessons will be created and published as a teacher resource. This course will require some flexibility on the part of the students when/if it comes to the scheduling of the Art Literacy lesson-teaching component.

CAP: HENRY DOSCH COLLECTION
The Henry E. Dosch Family Collection
Jeffer Daykin, jbdaykin@comcast.net
Henry Dosch was a German immigrant who came to Oregon after fighting in the Civil War. After a life in business, he actively helped Oregon forge international relations-especially with Japan-through turn-of-the-century World's Fairs. Trunks containing his family's letters and interesting period ephemera have been transferred to the John Wilson Special Collections (JWSC) of the Multnomah County Library and previous capstones have begun the work of sorting the collection. This capstone will have students work at the JWSC to continue these efforts by further organizing the materials, creating a searchable electronic index, and preparing an exhibit of interesting pieces for exhibition.

The Natural Food Industry and the Cooperative Business Model
Pedro Ferbel-Azcarate pferbel@yahoo.com
This Capstone will provide an orientation to the natural food industry and the cooperative business models. Students will gain hands on experience working with the community partner, People's Food Cooperative, on various business related inquiries including financial analyses, marketing studies, and plans for short and long term growth. We will address different business strategies in the natural food industry and for cooperative businesses, specifically, and make the connection to broader themes including health and nutrition, food security and food politics, environmental sustainability, urban design, and community development. There may also be opportunities for partnering with PSU's Food For Thought Cafe, on similar food industry projects.

CAP: TUTORING ADULT ESL
Tutoring Adult ESL at Community Colleges
Michelle Culley, mculley@pdx.edu
Capstone students will tutor adult English as a Second Language learners for 2 - 3 hours a week in local Community College ESL classes. Capstone students must be proficient speakers of English. Students must contact Michelle Culley prior to registration. Tutoring times vary, please contact Michelle for specifics. In addition, all capstone students will meet from 12:45-15:45 every Wednesday on the PSU campus for coursework on ESL strategies and immigration issues.