Fall 2025

HST 427/NAT 300/IRP 327: Native America and the World: The Haudenosaunee

Professor: Aaron Luedtke | T/TH 11am-12:20pm

"Native America and the World: The Haudenosaunee" explores the history of Haudenosaunee sovereignty and self-determination in an international context. This course engages directly with Haudenosaunee elders and community members in order to fully connect students with issues faced both historically and in the present by Haudenosaunee communities.

ENG 181/192, WRT 105/114: Traveling Teaching

Professors Sean Conrey & Harvey Teres

In collaboration with Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA) classes in the humanities and extending from Prof. Tere’s “The Holocaust in American Literature” course, Traveling Teaching will work with SU professors and local high school teachers to develop course designs that include shared curricula and lessons, such that their students can interact in person during a chosen class or classes.

Spring 2026

ENG 411: Re/We Do Shakespeare

Professor: Stephanie Shirilan

We Do/Re-Do Shakespeare aims to increase the diversity of voices and bodies participating in the study, adaptation, and performance of Shakespeare and classical theater by fostering opportunities for members of our more diverse local community to obtain earlier, more inclusive access to and transformative use of these works.

GEO 473/673: Geography of Memory: Unsettling Stories

Professor: Timur Hammond

“Unsettling Stories” partners with the Erie Canal Museum to develop a series of events to engage students in challenging and rewriting dominant narratives about conquest and triumph that typically frame the Erie Canal's construction and importance.

HFS 326: Developmental Perspectives in Medical Language

Professor: Colleen Cameron

In this course, students will develop pediatric health literacy programming at the Museum of Science and Technology designed for students K-5. Students will build skills in developmentally supportive approaches to medical education in the form of medical play via "Teddy Bear Clinics". Students will apply principles and practices of medical play as an approach to healthcare communication with pediatric populations.

HUM/ENG 300: Poetry & Environmental Justice

Professor: Lauren Cooper

In partnership with Write Out and Environmental Storytelling CNY, this course explores how poetry and creative forms can advance environmental justice. Students will be introduced to key public humanities methods and will work with local youth on the production of creative projects, learning how to build equitable partnerships that center community voices and ideas.

HUM/NAT 300/400: Stories of Indigenous Dispossession Across the Americas

Professor: Miryam Nacimento

This course partners with the Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center (a Haudenosaunee Cultural Center) to introduce students to storytelling as an action-based research method and to develop storytelling projects that explore different cases of Indigenous dispossession in the Americas (North, Central and South America).

Spring 2025

MAT 100: Social Justice Mathematics

Professor Nicole Fonger | MW 2:15-3:25pm

How can I apply math/stats to make a difference in the broader Syracuse community? This special topics course will engage students in collaborations on community-engaged Data Warriors projects with local high school students to understand,  critique, and address social injustices they care about through math, statistics, and mapping.

ENG 420: Family Photos and Social Justice

Professor Roger Hallas | MW 2:15-3:25pm

This course contributes to the community project Black Family Photography in Syracuse, which aims to build an inclusive, sustainable, and transformative community-based archive for public memory, collective well-being, and social justice through local communities coming together to share their stories through family photographs.

WRT/HUM 422: Community Storytelling Studio

Professor Brice Nordquist | TTh 12:30 - 1:50pm

Community Storytelling Studio invites you to explore the transformative power of storytelling in shaping local communities. We'll collaborate with community partners addressing critical issues like food justice, transportation, housing, public health, environmental justice, and educational inequity. And students will craft meaningful stories through podcasting, still and moving images, and writing. 

SPA 300: Our Community Voices

Professor Emma Tico Quesada | TTh 2 - 3:20pm

Our Community Voices helps Spanish heritage students to reconnect with their heritage language and culture, solidify their identity, and inspire them to contribute and be agents of change in their own linguistic and cultural community and in our local Syracuse community.

HUM/NAT 300 & 400: Stories of Indigenous Dispossession across the Americas

Professor Miryam Nacimento | TTh 2 - 3:20pm

This course partners with the Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center (a Haudenosaunee Cultural Center) to introduce students to storytelling as an action-based research method and to develop storytelling projects that explore different cases of Indigenous dispossession in the Americas (North, Central and South America).

HUM/ENG 300: Poetry & Environmental Justice

Professor Lauren Cooper | TTh 12:30 - 1:50pm

In partnership with Write Out, this course explores how poetry and creative forms can advance environmental justice. Students will be introduced to key public humanities methods and will work with local youth on the production of a multimedia creative project/installation, learning how to build equitable partnerships that center community voices and ideas.

Fall 2024

NAT/REL 200: Indigenous Food Cosmologies

Professor Mariaelena Huambachano (Quechua, Peru)

Food has culture, history, and stories. This course will take you on a journey exploring Indigenous cosmologies (worldviews/cosmovision) and their philosophy of living well to understand the value of food for Indigenous peoples living in settler-colonial societies.

WRT 413: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Just Futures after Prison

Professor Patrick Berry

Working with Project Mend and the Center for Community Alternatives, the course explores the prison-industrial complex and its relationship to ethics, justice, and rhetoric for justice-impacted people. Students will partner with formerly incarcerated writers and learn how rhetoric and ethics are used to shape policy and perception about prison, crime, and punishment.

CSD/HNR 400/600: Culturally Responsive Healthcare

Professors Jamie Desjardins & Stephanie McMillen

This is a 3-credit hybrid course designed to promote optimal healthcare outcomes for refugees and other at risk and/or vulnerable populations. The course is geared towards students, in any major, who are interested in careers in health care or education. No clinical experience or pre-requisites required

ENG 420: Everyday Media and Social Justice

Professor Roger Hallas

Although family photos and home movies have been significant to the social construction of white, middle-class heteronormativity, they have also been mobilized to transform the private into the public, preserve marginalized community histories excluded from official archives, and bear witness in social movements from Abolition to Black Lives Matter. We will engage with Family Pictures Syracuse, an inclusive, sustainable, and transformative community-based project for public memory, collective well-being, and social justice through communities coming together to share their stories through family photos.

LIN 300: Linguistics at Work

Professor Amanda Brown

In this course, students will partner with the Museum of Science and Technology (MoST) in Syracuse on a project entitled, “The Science of Language,” to develop exhibits that showcase in engaging and interactive audio-visual and kinesthetic ways the scientific phenomena behind language acquisition, processing, and use. Exhibits will be implemented at the MoST in spring 2024.

MAT 1XX: Social Justice Mathematics

Professor Nicole Fonger

This course leverages the historically responsive literacy framework and the model of Syracuse Truth Seekers (an EHN Engaged Communities project) to integrate a community-facing project that puts SU students into contact with Syracuse School District students and teachers through collaborative social justice mathematics and mapping.

CSD 650: Clinical Practicum

Professor: Kristen Kennedy

CSD 650 Clinical Practicum, is a component of the Doctor of Audiology (AuD) program, through which students complete semester long externships in various locations, including educational settings. One aspect of audiological services in educational settings is the fitting of Hearing Assistance Technology (HAT) for students with hearing impairment. Funds from the Engaged Courses Grant will be used to secure 6 new HAT devices for students in the Syracuse City School District, providing access to technology for hearing impaired children with diverse backgrounds while providing a clinical training opportunity for students.

WRT 114: Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction, Writing & Translating Cultures

Professor: Sevinç Türkkan

WRT 114 is an introduction to the art of creative nonfiction across languages and cultures. The course brings together SU students and members of the North Side Learning Center to explore questions about how cross-cultural exchange influences our sense of self. We explore the meaning and value of creative non-fiction, engage in collaborative translations, and write about ourselves in the context of broader cultures, places, and histories of displacement.