Creators: Angelina King, Ananya Jain, Valerie Tran, Irini Alexandrou Barcelo Course: HONR3310 Contemporary Issues in Healthcare For their final project, students described and addressed real community-based healthcare concerns that relate to their Service-Learning experiences. Through a needs assessment, students identify the issues that impact a specific community based on the broad themes covered in class,…
Creators: All students in CHNS3101! Course: CHNS3101 Advanced Chinese 1 With our partnership this semester, the students have submitted an artifact that details their overall reflection and thoughts about their service-learning. What makes this even more special is that the students were able to talk to the older adults they met about their life stories…
Creator: Annica Kim Course: GRMN2101 Intermediate German I, GRMN2102 Intermediate German 2 Our students had the opportunity to meet with elders living in Germany twice this semester and hold conversations with them to practice their conversational German and to learn more about their partner’s lives. These intercultural meetings aimed to alleviate isolation that many elders…
Creators: Bella Lee, Azalea Murray, Nia Simmons Course: ENGW1114 First-Year Writing with Service-Learning The students in first year writing focused on how to utilize writing to speak about and challenge complex problems. In this assignment, students were asked to look at how each of the community partners they’ve been working with this semester fit into…
Creators: Nikita Zurna Course: RSSN 2101 Russian Intermediate In this podcast, Mikhail’s stories of his early childhood in Moldova, his life in the Soviet Union, and his transition to American life are recounted….
Creators: Anton Vitek and Casey Waskiewicz Course: RSSN Directed Study, RSSN 2101 Russian Intermediate This podcast is a culmination of our weekly conversations with two russian-speaking adults named Vasily and Tatiana. In the podcast we discuss their immigration stories, childhoods, and lives in the United States….
Creators: Anton Vitek, Casey Waskiewicz Course: RSSN Directed Study, RSSN 2101 Russian Intermediate This artifact is a transcript of a podcast describing students’ interviews with elderly Russian speakers at Little Brothers, Friends of the Elderly, an organization supporting elderly communities’ social enrichment. In Russian, they describe what they learned from the adults they interviewed –…
Creators: Students of the Cell and Molecular Biology of Aging Class Course: BIOL 5593 Cell and Molecular Biology of Aging Over the past semester, the student’s in Dr. Apfeld’s class on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Aging have collaborated with the Boston-local organization Little Brother’s – Friends of the Elderly (LBFE). LBFE is a…
Creators: The students of CHNS 3101 Advanced Chinese 1 Course: Advanced Chinese 1 This artifact consists of student reflections about on their time in service for CHNS 3101, which partnered with LBFE for Spring 2022. Students were tasked to help teach English to mandarin-speaking elderly over zoom, where they were able to practice mandarin as…
Creator: Ruo-Jie Lin Course: GBST 1030 Community Learning 2 (Lucy Bunning) This artifact demonstrates my personal professional development based on my service-learning work with LBFE. During the service-learning work, we accompanied older adults to learn to use technologies and relieve loneliness. From the experience, I learned that communication played an important role while building relationships…