As Columbia University’s largest service organization, Community Impact strives to further the ways in which service permeates student life. Thus we work both to encourage teachers to teach service learning classes and strive to assist them in any way possible.
Spring 2012 Classes
Disability Studies, Professor Rachel Adams
This course will discuss what historical, political, and social factors have given rise to the way we understand disability in contemporary American culture. Students will learn how philosophers, policy makers, authors and artists framed the political and ethical debates surrounding the status of disability and how imaginative representations in literature, film, and the visual arts contributed to and/or challenged those understandings. As a service learning course, students will volunteer in different non-profits in the city for a total of 30 hours of community service.
Spring 2011 Classes
Immigrant New York, Professor Rebecca Kobrin
This course will compare immigrants’ encounters with New York at the dawn of the 20th Century with contemporary issues, organizations, and debates shaping immigrant life in New York City. As a service learning course, students will work 2–4 hours/week in the Riverside Language Center or programs for immigrants run by Community Impact.
