Course Catalog

CDIS: Introduction to Clinical Practice

The course content provides students with a foundation of academic and clinical skills necessary to become a competent service provider for their community in the future. By design, this course requires students to interact and collaborate with community partners and current service providers in the field of communication disorders. As students learn key concepts, they are provided opportunities to apply knowledge through clinical documentation based on observations and interactions with the community or weekly case scenario assignments. They learn the value and standards required for quality clinical service provision, regardless of the type of clinical setting they may eventually choose to work in professionally.

CDIS: Introduction to Aural Rehabilitation

Students will study the technique used in the rehabilitation of speech and language problems of the hearing impaired including the role of amplification, auditory training, and speech reading in rehabilitation. 

CDIS: Introduction to Audiology

This course is an introduction to the basic concepts for administering and interpreting hearing tests, including the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system, disorders of the ear, and techniques for administering and interpreting basic pure tone threshold tests. 

CDIS: Language, Learning and Literacy

This course provides the students opportunities to interact and collaborate with community partners and current service providers in the field of communication disorders. They are required to screen children who attend local Head Start programs utilizing a norm-referenced screener and access local children who are at risk for language and literacy delays. In this way, they will be trained to administer norm-referenced assessments and the opportunity to practice their communitcation skills with Head Start.

CHLP: Health Coaches II

This course is the field-based second course in the three-course Health Coaches sequence. Health Coaches will become engaged in the processes of educating and motivating identified at risk patients to take an active and meaningful role in their health and well-being. Students are required to make scheduled visits to their assigned patients' homes, potentially attend doctor appointments with the patient, engage in phone interactions with patients and the healthcare team as needed, and meet face-to-face weekly with the care coordination healthcare team to discuss patient experiences and strategies for optimizing healthcare outcomes for individual patients.

CHLP: Health Coaches III

This course is the field-based third course in the three-course Health Coaches sequence. Health Coaches will to continue to be engaged in the processes of educating and motivating identified at risk patients to take an active and meaningful role in their health and well-being through scheduled visits to their assigned patients' homes or by phone, potentially attending doctor appointments with the patient, and participating in face-to-face weekly with the care coordination healthcare team to discuss patient experiences and strategies for optimizing healthcare outcomes for individual patients. In addition, students at this level will provide leadership within student care teams and provide community outreach under the direction of the professional healthcare team. 

CIED: Integrated Social Studies for the K-6 Classroom

This course focuses on the methodology of facilitating elementary students' development in language arts and social studies. Integrates the curriculum and teaching strategies in language arts and social studies. 

CIED: Student Teaching

Full-time student teaching in grades K-6 to be repeated both fall and spring semesters. Students will practice and master instructional strategies under the supervision of qualified mentor teachers and university faculty members.

NURS: Nursing Concepts: Community

This course focuses on theories and concepts in community health nursing. Health resources are explored in a variety of settings. This is a Level II course. 

NURS: Nursing Concepts: Older Adult

This course focuses on gerontologic theories, concepts, and principles as they relate to nursing care of older adults. Students explore socio-cultural context of gerontologic nursing, professional standards of practice, common health concerns, and future considerations. This is a Level I course. 

NURS: Professional Role Implementation VII: Role Synthesis

Students apply community health concepts and the nursing process to promote community health and restore health in a variety of community settings. The students will learn about healthcare in a global setting by working together with nurses and doctors in a hospital and clinics. This course allows students to connect with local people and experience their cultures and traditions while providing teaching projects that will improve the participants self-care knowledge and skill. 

NURS: Rural Primary Care in Arkansas

This is a rural health course elective for graduate nursing students. The purpose of this course is to prepare them for the role of nurse practitioner educator in the academic setting by providing additional knowledge and exposure to topics and diseases seen in rural primary care in Arkansas. 

NURS: Special Topics in Nursing: Palliative and End of Life Care

This course focuses on holistic treatment of individuals in need of comfort, palliation, and quality end-of-life care. Students will, specifically, assist in implementing a new program at Circle of Life called Care Navigation. After accompanying the nurse to a referral in the hospital or client’s home, the student will help the client identify goals of care, provide guidance with advance care planning, direct clients to available resources, make follow-up visits to determine changes in client needs, make supportive phone calls and act as liaison between the client the care team which is directed by a Circle of Life social worker. 

NURS: Opioid Use in Rural Arkansas

This course prepares graduate nursing students for the nurse practitioner role in rural settings by providing knowledge, exposure to risk factors, treatment strategies for opioid abuse and misuse, policies and regulations related to prescribing opioids, and gaps in community responses addressing this epidemic in rural primary care in Arkansas.

OCTH: Community Wellness

This project-based course challenges student groups to construct a realistic, evidence-driven, occupation-centered, community-based wellness proposal. Students will practice working effectively as a team, improving communication skills, maximizing strengths, and seeking assistance where needed while further developing and evaluating professional behaviors.

OCTH: Exploring Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

This course introduces students to the origin and evolution of Occupational Science, the study of humans as occupational beings, and its dynamic relationship to occupational therapy. Students will examine specific occupations and the dynamics of occupation across the lifespan as they explore how occupational scientists have brought their critical perspectives to bear on topics/issues essential to competent OT practice. Students will learn about the occupational perspective as it applies to occupational engagement across the lifespan, context, co-occupations, and occupational justice. 

PBHL: Internship in Public Health

This course is designed to provide students with an extended work experience in a selected community/public health program. Students work under college supervision with a professional in the health care delivery field. 

PBHL: Global Health: Issues, Concepts and Perspectives

This course emphasizes needs assessment, development, implementation, evaluation, and sustainability of public health initiatives designed to improve the health and well-being of community members at all levels of the health continuum; topics of focus will include determinants of health, mental health, environmental health, nutrition, maternal and child health, sexual health, injuries and chronic and infectious diseases. 

RESM: Recreation and Sports Promotion

Customer care will hold top priority throughout this course as the primary way for students to find success in ticket sales. Activities such as phone calls to season ticket holders and greeting fans at a football game in the Fall are just two of the ways that students will be able to attain the course objectives and build skills that will benefit them as they begin their careers. Getting people to attend various athletic events is actually really difficult. This will provide students with first hand experience of how to work with customers, sell tickets, and better understand creating an amazing experience at athletic events.

ACOM: Communicating Agriculture to the Public

Students get an overview of public communications theory and practices in the agricultural, food, and life sciences with a particular focus on technical writing, public relations and media relations writing, campaign planning, public speaking, and various mass media communication techniques, including print, broadcast, electronic, and social media. 

ACOM: Communications Campaigns in Agriculture

Students will develop understanding of the principles, practices and applications of social marketing, integrated marketing communications, advertising and public relations as they pertain to developing communication campaign strategies for the agricultural industry. Students will develop a communication campaign for an agricultural company and/or entity focused on a specific product or service.

AGED: Curriculum Development and Assessment Techniques in Career and Technical Education Laboratory

This course supplies students with opportunities to apply skills in creating curricula, lesson plans, and assessment strategies for courses in career and technical education. Materials created as a result of this course will apply principles learned in AGED 3162, and will align with anticipated courses to be taught by the student during his/her teaching internship. 

AGED: Undergraduate Researchers Improving Student Experiences 

This course engages students in the social sciences in action research that serves to solve a problem or answer a question within the student's academic field through scientific inquiry. All students will work with professionals, commonly outside of the university, within their discipline to conduct their action research in order to solve a problem experienced by that professional. Students may work in teams or individually to complete the overall purpose of the course.

AGED: Internship in Agricultural Education

Students are placed in schools and are "working alongside" communities that benefit from agricultural education. Students develop ways to understand and impact the needs of a community- which are unique to the internship placement.

AGED: Lifelong Agricultural Advocacy

Students will partner with a local agricultural or youth organization and create a formal, informal, or non-formal educative piece that advocates for a specific agricultural aspect within that organization.

AGLE: Leadership Development in Agriculture

A study of the identifications of styles and roles of leadership; development of leadership techniques and skills required in working with community organizations; dynamics of group action; methods of resolving conflict; ethical considerations for leaders; and personal skill development.

ANSC: Equine Assisted Therapy

This overview course will allow students to gain an understanding of what makes EAAT effective by studying the different client bases served, what makes animals good. (Instructor: Kathi Jogan)

ENSC: Plants and Environmental Restoration

This course explores selection, establishment, and use of plants to promote soil stabilization, water quality, and wildlife habitat. Students will learn principles and practices of managing plants for soil remediation, nutrient and sediment trapping, and restoration of plant communities. 

HDFS: Honors Families in Crisis

Students gain an interdisciplinary perspective on internal and external crises faced by contemporary families, including substance abuse, natural disasters and other crisis events. Students will explore the family processes during such experiences and develop strategies for stress management, coping, and recovery.

HDFS: Honors Family Relations

This course focuses on courtship, marriage, and parenthood in the United States, with attention to cultural and psychological factors which affect relations among family members. Lecture 3 hours per week.

HDFS: Parenting and Family Dynamics

This course focuses on the influence of parenting and family dynamics on individual development, especially factors in family life which contribute to normal psychological development. Topics include family values, the psychology of sex and pregnancy, the transition to parenthood, childbearing techniques, family influences on cognitive and social development, and changes in family relationships during the life cycle. 

HDFS: Language and Literacy Pedagogy for Birth through Kindergarten Educators

This course combines theory on emergent language and literacy development with research-based pedagogy for birth through kindergarten classrooms. Topics include: language and literacy development and exceptionalities, English Language Learners, environmental influences, best practice pedagogy, identifying language and literacy delays, and intervention strategies. This course includes a service learning component. 

HDFS: Introduction to Cultural Competence

Students learn a basic introduction to definitions of intercultural competence, diversity, cultural values and beliefs, attitudes and verbal and non-verbal behavior, are examined to identify basic differences among individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds and across populations. 

HDFS: Multicultural Families

The course provides students with opportunities to gain awareness of their own cultures and families, reflect on families from a diverse array of cultures, and develop critical thinking skills needed to effectively engage with people and families from cultures different than their own.

HESC: Festival Management

Before War Eagle Fair, the fair’s Board of Directors will attend the class and inform students the hosting experiences and history of this festival. Students will understand how a festival like War Eagle Fair could contribute to positive social and cultural influences to our local community. During War Eagle Fair, student teams will work on their assigned functions, such as social media marketing, human resources, and public relations. After War Eagle Fair, students will present a final group presentation based on experiences gained through this fair. The fair’s Board of Directors will attend the class as judges for students’ presentations.

HORT: Practical Landscape Planning

Students interact with clients or other site representatives using specific and identified spaces through interviews or questionnaires with that knowledge being incorporated into an actual planting document (design plans). 

HOSP: Special Events Management

The service learning projects provide the students the opportunity to plan and manage community events, while gaining relevant skills needed in the industry.

HOSP: Menu, Layout, and Food Preparation Lab

 The University benefits from the course by receiving high-quality food prepared by the students.  In return, the students learn how to plan, manage, and complete meals for members of the University community, who pay $7 for the meal.  Students also receive experience managing a food service business.

HOSP: Culture and Cuisines of the World Practicum

Students will develop service management skills for the hospitality industry through preparation and service of food, staffing, professionalism, recipe standardization, menu planning, cost control, sanitation, safety, and overall quality assurance. They will also learn instruction for planning food flow from receiving to service of meals, including choosing proper equipment for the flow plan and service items. Students must have a current Food Managers Certificate which is achieved upon successful completion of HOSP 2611. 

NUTR: Culinary Nutrition

This course is grounded in a food first approach to health and wellness with an emphasis on disease prevention. Students will study the physical and chemical characteristics of foods that increase nutritional value and will include exploration of the culinary nutrition modification process and application of these concepts to planning nutritionally balanced meals. 

NUTR: Nutrition Education and Counseling

This course is an introduction to development of communication skills related to educational theory and techniques, development of educational materials, interpersonal communication skills, group dynamics, public speaking, and interviewing techniques. The course includes discussion of counseling theory and methods, and how education and counseling are intertwined for nutrition professionals. It also includes development of skills in nutrition counseling. 

BMEG: Clinical Observations and Needs Finding

This course involves the introduction of clinical procedures and biomedical devices and technology to biomedical engineering students. Students will tour medical facilities, clinics and hospitals and will participate in medical seminars, workshops and medical rounds. The course prepares students to successfully select and complete a project in the senior capstone course.

BMEG: Biomedical Engineering Design I & II

In this course, groups are organized into teams of 4-5 members. The students put together a development plan and complete an initial prototype. Students will design what is to be fabricated and tested as a medical device or software following design process and product design specification guidelines.

ELEG: Electrical Engineering Design I & II

This course is a capstone design and application in electrical engineering.

OMGT: Strategic Management

This course examines strategic management, which is defined as the art and science of formulating, implementing, and evaluating cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its long-term objectives. Principles of strategic management will be covered in conjunction with case studies to provide opportunity for analysis and experience in applying these principles in an operations management environment. 

ARCH: Option Studio II

Students engage in project resolution including demonstrated skill in generating design ideas supported by clear understanding of issues resulting in comprehensive development and presentation of architectural issues at multiple scales. 

ARTS: Interactive Language

ARTS: Human Centered Design

ARTS: Special Topics: Social Justice and the Arts

GDES: Interactive Language

GDES: User Experience

GDES: Design for Complexity

IDES: Interior Design Studio VIII

This course is a comprehensive design studio synthesizing design skills, knowledge, and critical thinking skills developed in previous design studios, including ideation, programming, construction, and human factors. 

LARC: Advocacy and Theory Module: Collaborating with Communities

Students explore theories and history and their implementation to increase understanding of concurrent design studio topics. Students develop advocacy capacities through communication, collaboration and skills through workshops, readings, stakeholder engagement and discussions. Students form rationales for design and personal disposition, while gaining knowledge to advocate for the profession and discipline. 

ANTH: Honors Colloquium: Violence and Social Suffering

This course aims to develop students’ ability to critically analyze the phenomenon of violence. In this course, we will study how humans have arrived at injuring and dehumanizing. Students in this course will have the opportunity to visit Central High School, the Rohwer Japanese American internment center, and workers in chicken factories here in Northwest Arkansas. 

ARED: Special Topics in Art Education: Teaching Art to Special Needs Adults

Life Styles, Inc. is an organization that educates adults with disabilities.  There is a need in the community for these services.  Students offer an inclusive classroom experience for the special needs adults.

ARED: Inclusive Art Pedagogy

This course provides future art educators with the current issues and practices necessary for teaching disabled students in an inclusive art class through inverse inclusion (rotating roles as teacher, assistant, student, and observer). It will involve readings, observations, reflections, discussion, and extensive experience applying curriculum and contemporary pedagogy to inclusive art education practice in a community-based setting. 

ARED: Community Art

This course covers community-based art theories, classroom learning theories, and instructional strategies. It is also a teaching practicum course for community outreach; thus, students will design curriculum, implement lesson plans, and organize a final exhibition. Includes at least 24 hours of community teaching experience.

BIOL: Field Studies: Tropical Ecology in Northern Thailand

Students will collect ecological data on the biodiversity of the Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve. Data collection and reporting represent service learning because these data are direly needed for the Sakaerat Biosphere Reserve. Students will conduct outreach to local public schools.

COMM: Community Resilience

This course explores communication systems, community relationships, and strategic communication processes that constitute community resilience. Introduces various methodological approaches to assessing community resilience in order to develop communication-based interventions that promote belonging, transformative potential, and social capital.

COMM: Health Communications

Students will focus on a particular public health issue. In the past, students in the class have partnered with Pat Walker Health Center and the FRESH organization on campus by developing communication campaigns promoting safer sex communication and the University's anti-tobacco policy.

COMM: Intercultural Communication

This course focuses on the study of intercultural communication skills, intercultural issues and their impact at home and abroad, and cross-cultural comparisons of communication phenomena from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

COMM: Nonprofit Storytelling and Impact Communication

Students will learn framing theory in class that they will then be able to apply in practice for a local nonprofit, thereby incorporating their lessons on strategic storytelling into a direct local context that will help them to create communication solutions that inspire public action and investment. 

COMM: Special Topics: Health Communication

Each semester the course is taught, students will focus on a particular public health issue. In the past, students in the class have partnered with Pat Walker Health Center and the FRESH organization on campus by developing communication campaigns promoting safer sex communication and the University's anti-tobacco policy.

COMM: Special Topics: Comm & Fundraising Non-Profit

This course is designed to introduce students to both the theory and practice of philanthropy and, in particular, the public communication and fundraising practices of nonprofit organizations. After learning development strategies used by nonprofits to mobilize and gain support from their surrounding communities, students will apply these strategies to create a fundraising plan (described above) for the Yvonne Richardson Center itself. 

COMM: Non-Profit Storytelling

Students will learn framing theory in class that they will then be able to apply in practice for a local nonprofit, thereby incorporating their lessons on strategic storytelling into a direct local context that will help them to create communication solutions that inspire public action and investment. 

COMM: Environmental Community Adaptations

This course covers communication topics which are not usually presented in depth in regular courses. Students conduct a project in groups to address a community partner's needs. 

ENGL: Advanced Composition

Students will critically read nonfiction, theory, and poetry to get at the heart of multiple communities in Northwest Arkansas. Students will work with U of A programs, Sin Límites and Students Involved in Sustaining Their Arkansas (SISTA), to assist bilingual high school students in practical vision casting and grant writing for their communities.

ENGL: Document Design for Technical Writers

This course focuses on the role of document design in technical and professional writing. It covers industry standard software and theories of rhetorically-centered document design. Students will create print-ready technical documents such as manuals, catalogs, and infographics. 

ENGL: Technical Editing and User Experience

The course is designed around editing documents and user experiences that fit a wide variety of use cases, and ideally the major projects in the course are client-based projects. The service learning opportunities allow students the chance to not only work with real-world clients, but positively impact the community of NWA. The non-profits in the area are often overworked and understaffed when it comes to dedicated technical writers. Editing students are able to provide copyediting, proofreading, and comprehensive editing services, and UXD students are able to provide evaluations of existing document workflows.

ENGL: Technical and Report Writing

This course gives students opportunity to explore the ways academics solve real problems and to explore their own interpersonal development. They begin with exploratory information gathering such as to identify community leaders, agencies and non-profits with shared similar interests. Then they visit organizations, meetings and interviewing potential partners and change makers, along with traditional secondary library research. Project work has been diverse and effective toward bringing many new ideas and approaches to our community, and the writing is what carries these ideas into reality.

ENGL: Honors Colloquium

Covers a special topic or issue. Offered as part of the honors program.  In the past, this course focused on such topics as the human condition, personal dignity, social responsibility, cultural diversity, and the history of medicine. It required a service-learning component that involved close interaction with a physician at a local clinic and service hours at a local agency in addition to the classroom time commitment.

ENGL: Special Topics: Medical Humanities Colloquium

This course combines literary and critical texts that attend to the social rather than technical aspects of medicine, focusing on such topics as the human condition, personal dignity, social responsibility, cultural diversity, and the history of medicine. This course requires a service-learning component that involves close interaction with a physician at a local clinic and service hours at a local agency in addition to the classroom time commitment.

ENGL:  Advanced Studies in Technical Writing & Public Rhetorics

The course is designed around editing documents and user experiences that fit a wide variety of use cases, and ideally the major projects in the course are client-based projects. The service learning opportunities allow students the chance to not only work with real-world clients, but positively impact the community of NWA.

HIST: Internship in History

Students receive work experience in a historical agency arranged by the student under the guidance of a faculty member. Students are expected to learn and develop the skills of the history profession. These might include archival methodology, cataloging and organizing documents, written reports and analyses, etc.

INST: Global Changemakers: Social Innovation Abroad

Students will explore selected global issues and social innovation techniques through collaborative engagement with domestic and international entities. Students will focus on initiatives addressing global issues at the local or regional level. 

JOUR: Advanced Reporting

This course stresses public affairs coverage, interpretive, investigative, and analytic journalism, involving research, work with documents, public records, and budgets and specialized reporting.

JOUR: Data Journalism

This course is an introduction to basic data reporting skills, including how to use data to guide and inform reporting as well as tell stories to better serve the public. Students will examine ethical issues and best practices in data reporting.

JOUR: Data Journalism

This course provides an in-depth experience of combining street reporting and data analysis to tell a story of significant societal importance. Students are introduced to techniques in data analysis, management, visualization and production of data-driven articles and multimedia presentations. 

JOUR: Photojournalism I

Photojournalism students will be providing a service and a deliverable which would not be affordable by most non-profits or community organizations and in so doing will provide a product as part of their class that the groups can put to use to further their own cause at no cost to themselves with no budget for such.

JOUR: Photojournalism II

Photojournalism students will be providing a service and a deliverable which would not be affordable by most non-profits or community organizations and in so doing will provide a product as part of their class that the groups can put to use to further their own cause at no cost to themselves with no budget for such. 

JOUR: Multimedia Journalism

This course provides students with the skills of visual literacy, photo editing, audio processing, video editing and web publishing. Good writing will be emphasized. The course examines basic aesthetic principles in visual composition and techniques applicable to audio, video and web production.

JOUR: Specialized Journalism Seminar

The purpose of this course is to enlarge the journalistic skills of students interested in advanced forms of mass communication. Students undertake projects related to particular aspects or problems of journalism. 

MUED: Classroom Instruments in Music Education

The purpose of this course is provide students opportunities to become familiar instruments utilized in the General Music classroom, including but not limited to the Orff Instrumentarium, pitched and un-pitched hand-held percussion, frame and various ethnic drums, guitar, and recorder.  Elementary and Secondary general music classroom preparation with an emphasis on orchestration, composition, and improvisation with instruments commonly utilized in required music classes in public schools.

PADM: Grant Writing for the Social Sciences

The course will teach students the fundamentals of obtaining grants from local, state, and federal agencies in collaboration with local or regional partner organizations. Students will use this information to apply for a grant of their choosing.  In the past, students have applied on behalf of agencies and received grants for upwards of $200,000.

PADM: Policy Analysis – Theory and Practice

This graduate course is designed to provide advanced students of public policy and management with a firm theoretical foundation in, and an ability to apply, the general instruments necessary for professional practice of policy analysis. Students work closely with the city to analyze the status quo and to identify and weigh policy alternatives.  The students provide the city with three to four final work products addressing the issues faced by each specific group. 

PADM: Professional Development (John Gaber)

Students are placed in organizations where they are given the opportunity to complete hands-on work for the organization.  At the end of the internship, a substantial paper in which the student shows his/her ability to integrate practice and theory is required. Students are placed at different posts, and have worked with many entities.

PLSC: Community Development (Margaret Reid)

Students will understand the community development environment, focusing on political, social, and economic issues.  Students will be able to apply theories and techniques to address community issues, unique to their own community partner.  At the end of the course, each student should have a finished paper addressing specific agency issues they discovered and researched throughout the semester.

PLSC: Nonprofit Management (Margaret Reid)

Students will understand the nonprofit environment, focusing on human resource management, financial management and fundraising, and program evaluation, among other topics.  Students will be able to apply theories and techniques to address specific nonprofit organizational issues.  At the end of the course, each student should have a finished paper addressing their specific nonprofit’s issues they discovered and researched throughout the semester.

PLSC: Grant Writing for the Social Sciences (Margaret Reid)

The course will teach students the fundamentals of obtaining grants from local, state, and federal agencies in collaboration with local or regional partner organizations.  Students will use this information to apply for a grant of their choosing.  In the past, students have applied on behalf of agencies and received grants for upwards of $200,000.

PSYC: Lunch Buddy Mentoring (Tim Cavell)

The course introduces students to the topics of school bullying and youth mentoring via a selected set of readings. It then provides an opportunity to participate in school-based mentoring, specifically lunchtime mentoring with an elementary school age child who has been identified as being bullied at school. Students are trained to be Lunch Buddy mentors and are matched with a child with whom they visit twice/week during the semester.

PSYC: Laboratory Experience

The course introduces students to the topics of school bullying and youth mentoring via a selected set of readings. It then provides an opportunity to participate in school-based mentoring, specifically lunchtime mentoring with an elementary school age child who has been identified as being bullied at school. Students are trained to be Lunch Buddy mentors and are matched with a child with whom they visit twice/week during the semester.

PSYC: Psychology Seminar

The course exposes students to research on youth mentoring and school bullying through the reading of empirical research papers. Students are asked to reflect on their readings and to write a brief reaction paper for each reading. This course also provides students with a service learning opportunity that involves mentoring an elementary school-aged child who is experiencing difficulties getting along with classmates (and is likely bullied at school). The service learning activities offer students a rich learning experience that is directly tied to their course readings. The end-of-term paper assignment helps students consider the links between their readings and their experiences and asks them to articulate lessons learned in a final summary paper.

PSYC: Art Creativity Youth Mentoring

The course introduces students to the topics of school bullying and youth mentoring via a selected set of readings. It then provides an opportunity to participate in school-based mentoring, specifically lunchtime mentoring with an elementary school age child who has been identified as being bullied at school. Students are trained to be Lunch Buddy mentors and are matched with a child with whom they visit twice/week during the semester.

PUBP: Capstone Seminar (Valerie Hunt)

During the first fourth of the course semester, students are exposed to examples of the core of service learning projects, policy analysis, teamwork and time management theories and strategies, and presentations of former capstone projects.

SCWK: Field Internship I & II

The students work in the NWA area to provide social work services to those in need. Engagement: 1) Substantively and affectively prepare for action with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities 2)  Use empathy and other interpersonal skills. (Instructor: Sara Collie)

SCWK: Field Internship III

This course is required of all graduate students entering the MSW program with advanced standing. A minimum of 240 clock hours of agency-based professional social work practicum experience, supervised by a licensed MSW, is required. 

SCWK: Advanced Field Internship I & II

The students work in the NWA area to provide social work services to those in need. Engagement: 1) Substantively and affectively prepare for action with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities 2)  Use empathy and other interpersonal skills 3) Develop a mutually agreed-on focus of work and desired outcomes. (Instructor: Sara Collie)

SCWK: Field Seminar I & II

An integrative seminar to assist students in comparing their practice experiences, integrating knowledge acquired in the classroom, and expanding knowledge beyond the scope of the practicum setting.

SCWK: Advanced Field Seminar I & II

The purpose of the seminar is to allow students to integrate classroom content with experiences in the field, to practice peer supervision and consultation, and to learn from the experiences of other students in the field. 

SCWK: Field Seminar III

This seminar is required of all graduate students entering the MSW program with advanced standing. Students integrate classroom content with experiences in the field, learn peer supervision and consultation, and learn from the experience of other students in the field.

SCWK: Social Work Practice II

This is the second course in the social work practice sequence, emphasizing theories, models, and techniques related to generalist practice with families and groups. The course elaborates on system theory as it impacts groups and families, and use of experiential teaching methods.

SCWK: Social Work Practice III

Students acquire and practice the skills, knowledge, and values necessary for culturally competent generalist social work practice with organizations and communities. Special attention is given to the implications of discrimination and oppression for attaining social and economic justice.

SCWK: Foundation Field Internship

This course is required of all graduate students entering the MSW program without an accredited undergraduate degree in social work. Minimum of 330 clock hours of agency-based professional social work practicum experience, supervised by a licensed MSW, is required.

SCWK: Foundation Field Seminar

This is a required course for MSW students without an accredited undergraduate degree in social work. The purpose of the seminar is to allow students to integrate classroom content with experiences in the field, to learn peer supervision and consultation, and to learn from the experiences of other students in the field. 

SCWK: Special Topics in Social Work

Comprehensive study of various topics of importance in contemporary social welfare and social work practice. 

SOCI: Special Topics in Sociology – Homelessness

The course will: focuses on national and regional patterns of homelessness, reviews the history of homelessness through media, discusses the causes and consequences of homelessness at individual and structural levels.  The students will work with agencies that serve the homeless community to address current needs.  This may include conducting survey data. (Instructor: Kevin Fitzpatrick)

SOCI: Social Research

Students study and experience implementing a methodological "toolbox," including theorizing, designing, measuring, sampling, collecting, interpreting, and reporting empirical results for real-world social research applications. 

SOCI: Social Data and Analysis

Students will analyze data collected through community-based research (CBR) methods to study “real world” outcomes in collaboration with local campus and community partners. As a companion course to SOCI 3313 (Social Research), the data analyzed by service learning students will be collected in conjunction with community and campus partners who have been invited to contribute short-term projects that can be completed within 1-2 semesters and which have already begun in the Social Research course.  In working with faculty on completing these projects, students will be able to learn how to apply social research skills to serve research needs.

SOCI: Latinos, Migration, and the U.S. South

Northwest Arkansas offers a window of opportunity to examine, first, how social institutions have adapted to this demographic transformation of the last 20 years. Second, it prompts scholars to explore the social, economic, and political context of the specific actions that institutions and policy makers have taken to adapt and serve these newcomers and, specifically, to understand how these approaches affect social actors’ decision-making, adaptation, and identity processes.  The first builds on collaborations with local community organizations to establish community-based research partnerships.

SOCI: Conducting Research in a Multicultural Community

Students will use survey research methods and conduct fieldwork administering surveys of immigrants in the community. Without this project, the gap on current data on immigrants in Northwest Arkansas will not be filled as no other organizations are attempting a project of this kind. The University will benefit as interested researchers will have a local data set with which to publish, potentially putting the U of A on the map for immigrant studies.

SPAN: Advanced Spanish for Health Professions 

This is an upper level service learning course for students in Spanish and Latin American and Latino Studies. Development of Spanish language for healthcare providers. Readings on the state of Latino health care in Arkansas and in the United States. Students will work 30 hours during the semester on health related projects with the Spanish speaking community of NWA. 

SPAN: Business Spanish I

By giving students the opportunity to interact directly with native Spanish-speakers in a business context (serving as interpreters, translators, and support staff), they will build foreign language proficiency and gain cultural competency, which are two of the main learning objectives of the course. Rather than being cultural tourists in a classroom, they will become cultural explorers in the real world. (Instructor: Janice North)

SPAN: Latino Biliteracy Project 

The class’ focus is on Latino education. As part of the class, students will examine the role of the University in social change. We will reflect on academic privilege and responsibility and read about how to produce socially conscious academic knowledge and make an impact in local communities. (Instructor: Luis Restrepo)

SPAN: Translation and Interpretation

The course incorporates a variety of activities from several fields of specialization (medical, business and economy, legal, general, etc) to develop translation and interpretation skills, abilities and knowledge at an introductory level. There is a Service Learning component in the semester that will help to prepare students to assist with language needs, via translation and/or interpretation, a variety of people in the community. Among these, there are non-English speakers, Limited English Proficiency speakers (LEP), professionals and corresponding staff in medical, judicial-legal, business and educational interactions, among other areas. This SL component is 5 hours per credit hour for a total of 15 hours in the semester, which include both preparation and undertaking the SL component.

Corporate Counsel Externship

Students are exposed to the practice of corporate counsel and legal issues faced by corporate counsel on a daily basis in a traditional legal department or in business, compliance, or capacity. Students provide quality work products to organization. Individual projects may span weeks or months, and include legal research and presentations, excel documents, memorandums and filing suit, etc.

Criminal Defense Externship

Students are exposed to the practice of criminal law from the perspective of criminal defense counsel and provide quality work products to the defense attorney- which may include research on cases, preparation of pleas, motions, memoranda or other writing assignments, interviews of defendants and witnesses, and observation and discussion of courtroom proceedings.

Criminal Prosecution Externship

Students are exposed to the practice of criminal law from the perspective of the prosecuting attorney and provide quality work products to the prosecuting attorney-  which may include research on cases, preparation of charges, motions, memoranda or other writing assignments, interviews of defendants and witnesses, and discussion of courtroom proceedings.

Government Externship

Students are exposed to the practice of attorneys in government agencies and offices, as well as in working committees appointed by a state supreme court.  Students provide quality work products to government agency- which may include research, drafting regulations, ordinances, and rules, preparation of opinions and other reports, observation of public meetings.

International Externship

Provides students with exposure to the practice of international law and transnational legal transactions.  Students provide quality work products to organization- which may include research, preparation of memoranda or other writing assignments, observation and discussion of legal proceedings.

Judicial Externship

Available to students having completed 30 hours toward the JD degree. Students work part-time - 12 hours/week over 14 weeks (variable in summer) - in judicial chambers, exposing students to the court system and the adjudication of cases from the judge's perspective. By observing proceedings/engaging in research/judicial writing, students develop legal and professional skills appropriate to litigation. There is a Field and an Academic Component to this course.

Legislative Externship

Students learn about the structure and procedures in the legislative process by attending hearings, legislator meetings, constituent meetings, and floor observation (when legislature is in session).  Students assist with day-to-day operations of the office, special projects, communicating with constituents, research and preparation of proposals and recommendations to the legislator on funding or other matters, preparation of memoranda, and attending conferences

Public Interest Externship

Students are exposed to a wide range of public interest and service practice environments.  Students provide quality work products to legal service organizations who represent low-income clients.  Work product may include research, preparation of legal memoranda, attending client meetings and court proceedings, and collecting information from clients.

Capstone Externship

Students are exposed to a wide range of practice environments.  Students provide quality work products for their placement, working (for free) 40 hours a week for a full semester.

Clinic: Criminal Defense

Student attorneys represent clients from the arraignment hearing through the conclusion of their case. Clients are individuals facing misdemeanor and felony criminal charges in the state court system- providing much needed free legal representation to those who may not be able to afford a private attorney.

Clinic: Criminal Practice

Students represent clients charged with misdemeanor and simple felony charges primarily in Washington County. Under close faculty supervision, students develop their ability to effectively and ethically practice law while providing much-needed legal assistance. In addition to client representation, and court appearances, students participate in a weekly seminar. 

Clinic: Advanced Criminal Practice

Student attorneys represent clients from the arraignment hearing through the conclusion of their case. Clients are individuals facing misdemeanor and felony criminal charges in the state court system- providing much needed free legal representation to those who may not be able to afford a private attorney.

Clinic: Transactional

Students assist area non-profits by preparing documents for 301c (3) registration and renewal, as well as other documents needed for non-profits, for free- without student assistance, documentation would require specific knowledge and a substantial amount of time. 

Clinic: Advanced Transactional

Students assist area non-profits by preparing documents for 301c(3) registration and renewal, as well as other documents needed for non-profits, for free- without student assistance, documentation would require specific knowledge and a substantial amount of time. 

Clinic: Civil Litigation and Advocacy

Students assist NWA residents in civil suits- without this free legal service, clients may not receive legal assistance in subjects like unpaid wages and denial of unemployment benefits.

Clinic: Advanced Civil Litigation and Advocacy

Students assist NWA residents in civil suits- without this free legal service, clients may not receive legal assistance in subjects like unpaid wages and denial of unemployment benefits.

Clinic: Human Trafficking

Students assist the Arkansas Attorney General's Task Force for the Prevention of Human Trafficking- without the help of clinic students, the Task Force's recommendations could not be completed due to a lack of funding. 

Clinic: Immigration

Students assist NWA residents in applying for necessary immigration documents- without this free legal service, proper documentation may not be attained or may take longer if done by another organization offering free services.

Clinic: Advanced Immigration

Students assist NWA residents in applying for necessary immigration documents- without this free legal service, proper documentation may not be attained or may take longer if done by another organization offering free services.

Clinic: Nonprofit

Students receive clinical legal experience counseling and representing non-profit organizations serving Northwest Arkansas in a wide range of non-litigation business law matters. Services include startup, incorporation, obtaining federal and state tax exemptions, change of business form, purchase and lease of real and personal property, employment and labor law issues, and general contract negotiation, drafting and execution. In addition, students prepare and participate as presenters in a workshop on matters of general interest to non-profit organizations. Legal Clinic Faculty supervise and review the student attorney's work, and provide personal feedback to the individual student attorneys.

Clinic: Advanced Nonprofit

 Students will be assigned a normal client load during both semesters. In the summer students may enroll in Transactional Clinic and Advanced Transactional Clinic during the same term. Students will be assigned to provide legal representation to qualified nonprofit organizations under the supervision of a faculty member. Students will have the opportunity to interview and counsel nonprofit entities and perform a number of transactional legal services for corporate clients including: drafting bylaws, preparing and filing articles of incorporation, completing and submitting applications for tax exempt status with state and federal tax agencies; and preparing and filing articles of dissolution. 

Clinic: Bankruptcy

In this experiential course students are closely supervised in the preparation and filing of consumer Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases for individuals and spouses from intake interview through discharge. The skill set taught includes information and fact gathering during a series of taped interviews, ethically handling trust account monies, drafting and filing the bankruptcy petition using document assembly software, appearance before the U.S. Trustee at the First Meeting of Creditors, and negotiating with bankruptcy trustees, creditors and other interested parties. 

Clinic: Advanced Bankruptcy

This course provides opportunities for students preparing for a career in consumer bankruptcy law by developing skills that are critical in legal practice through an experiential learning model. The course will allow for continuity in cases, as well as opportunities to handle more advanced and diverse cases. 

Clinic: Federal Practice

Students assist NWA residents in applying for chapter 7 (no-asset) bankruptcy.  Students work with clients from the initial intake through the discharge process, including handling all filings and appearing in court.

Clinic: Advanced Federal Practice

Students assist NWA residents in applying for chapter 7 (no-asset) bankruptcy.  Students work with clients from the initial intake through the discharge process, including handling all filings and appearing in court.

Community Development in Belize

Although many activities are on going, every year we work with PeaceWork INC and the local partners in Dangriga to ensure we are working on projects needed and wanted in the town. Once a project is established, students are responsible for all aspects of the project, planning, budgeting, execution and evaluation.

Community Development in Mozambique

The goal is for students to learn first-hand of the challenges in creating sustainable business in this inhospitable environment as well as to apply their skills creatively to improve the business.  This will offer tremendous capacity for not only experiential learning, but leadership and creativity.  Finally, the cultural experience is tremendous, as students will be working side by side with local community members in this business.

TEXT Study Abroad in Tibet

Because many of the Tibetans, particularly the elderly Tibetans, are not literate by Western standards, they have no other vehicle, than an oral history, with which to tell their stories and record their history. The Chinese occupation of Tibet has gradually decimated the indigenous Tibetan culture there, so the Tibetans in exile are paradoxically carrying Tibetan culture into the future, and our students are assisting them with project by providing them the platform of this oral history.

Community Development in Vietnam

U of A faculty will co-teach and guide students as they implement service learning projects during the summer in the rural community of Hoa An village in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.  This project requires intensive commitment from students to work diligently and with an open mind toward cultural awareness as they work side by side with community members to implement projects in their discipline. 

“South Africa: The Long, Ongoing Walk to Freedom” or “South Africa, Past and Present”

Students will deepen their understandings of the challenges that nations in the developing world and, in particular, South Africa face and how its recent apartheid past continues to shape contemporary developments.  This endeavor will focus on Maitland Garden Village, a historically marginalized community, to and learn more about the ways that residents address local challenges. Students will work directly with locals during this trip videotaping oral histories.

ECON: Special Topics in Economics

This course covers various special topics in economics not available in other courses.

ISYS: Seminar in Applied Business Analytics

This course is an application of business analytics, business intelligence, data mining, and data visualization to business problem solving. Business Analytics techniques using current and relevant software are applied to current business problems for presentation to management.

MGMT: Social Entrepreneurship

This course examines the unique work different corporations and small entrepreneurs around the world are conducting to run profitable businesses and at the same time improve the social or environmental conditions of our planet. The course explores the notion of social entrepreneurship both, as a social movement and as an economic alternative to engage in the solution of pressing challenges affecting humanity. Students will be acting as business consultants for a specific challenge posted by a specific organization. 

MGMT: Special Topics in Management

This course explores trends, concepts, and important developments in management as they impact on organizational performance. Topics are selected by the Management Department faculty for each semester the course is offered. Previous topics included Global Perspectives of COVID-19 and Social Entrepreneurship. 

Professional Development in the Arkansas Delta

Students travel to the Arkansas Delta to work with high school students.  They work on resume, interviewing, and other practical skills to prepare the Delta students for their next steps, whether it be the workforce, technical trade, or college. (Instructor: Molly Jensen)

MKTG: Nonprofit Marketing

This course is designed to give students a deeper understanding of marketing in the nonprofit sector, how it functions and how nonprofit marketing differs from traditional for profit marketing through leadership opportunities. Students will work with local nonprofits on various marketing projects throughout the semester. The class will use a service learning model of instruction where students take a leadership role in project development and execution. (Instructor: Molly Jensen)

MKTG: Integrated Marketing Communications

Working with small NWA businesses to create integrated marketing campaigns.  Students groups compete for the best marketing ideas- and companies often use the student ideas right away. (Instructor: Molly Jensen)

SEVI: Honors Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Colloquium that covers new developments and topics salient to entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy in businesses and nonprofit organizations. 

WCOB: Global Community Development Service Learning Internship

Students will work with community leaders, educational institutions, local cooperatives and community organizations to provide business leadership.  This might be anything from data analysis for the sugar grower’s cooperative to the development of financial literacy curriculum for its participating farmers. (Instructor: Amy Farmer)

WCOB: Consulting for Social Impact

An inter-disciplinary course exploring events, concepts, and/or new developments in the field of business administration.

WCOB: Walton Honors Thesis

Provides Honors Students with an opportunity to explore a business topic in depth through an independent research project.