Lower-Division

JRLC 1 Academic Literacy and Ethos: Social Justice and Community

Teaches foundational concepts for intellectual exploration and personal development within an academic community: analysis, critical thinking, metacognition, engagement with others across difference, and self-efficacy. Reflects our college theme of Social Justice and Community, addressing topics such as identity formation, inequality, and environmental injustice.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to first-year college members.

Quarter offered

Fall

JRLC 1A Introduction to University Life and Learning

Orientation to and exploration of the nature of the liberal arts, and of learning at research universities. Topics include: academic planning for upper-division coursework; enrollment processes; and understanding pathways to degree completion; UCSC resources that support health and well-being strategies for academic success; the cultivation of just communities; the prevention of sexual harassment and violence; campus conduct policies; awareness of risks associated with drug and/or alcohol use; and an introduction to traditions of community-engaged learning, ground-breaking research, and interdisciplinary thinking that define a UC Santa Cruz degree. This course can be taken for Pass/No Pass grading only.

Credits

1

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to entering first-year John R. Lewis College students.

Quarter offered

Summer

JRLC 30 (H)ACER Undergraduate Community Internship

Student Internship through the Apprenticeship in Community Engaged Research (H)ACER Program at College Nine and John R. Lewis College. The (H)ACER Program joins community engagement with critical reflexive components of qualitative research to support transformative learning and strengthen community-university partnerships. Students will be placed at a variety of internships and work with our community partners such as Calabasas Elementary School classroom teachers, Calabasas Elementary School After School Program, Calabasas Community Garden, and Watsonville High School classroom teachers. Students also may propose internships if they already have strong ties with a community partner and receive approval from the (H)ACER Director. Requires students to read selected readings on critical service learning, community learning, qualitative research methods and a variety of texts relevant to the history, context and activities at the sites where they will intern. Internships will take place primarily in Watsonville. Enrollment by permission of the instructor.

Credits

2

Cross Listed Courses

CLNI 30

Instructor

Linnea Beckett

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall

JRLC 35 Knowledge For Justice

Introduction to the (H)ACER program at John R. Lewis College. (H)ACER trains students in participatory research methodologies and creates opportunities for students to work in real world contexts addressing issues such as social, economic, educational, and environmental injustice. Students gain a foundation in understanding the context of the research university and developing critical research methods for working with communities. Students grapple with questions of how to conduct research in an ethical way and to build relationships that both recognize and are not foreclosed by histories of violence, with particular attention to race, class, gender, and nationality.

Credits

5

Instructor

Linnea Beckett

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Winter

JRLC 60 Understanding Sustainability: Researching Environmental Justice at UCSC

Through readings, discussions, and primary research on campus, course explores the following questions: What is sustainability at UCSC and what assumptions about the relationships between humans and nature are privileged in these definitions? (Formerly, I Couldn't Imagine Myself Anywhere Else: Understanding UCSC Undergraduate Narratives.)

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to College Scholars students.

General Education Code

PE-E

JRLC 85 Social Justice Issues Workshop

Series of presentations, films, and workshops that address personal and cultural identity and examine social, cultural, political, environmental, and other justice concerns.

Credits

2

Instructor

Mark Gardner

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to John R. Lewis College members during priority enrollment only.

JRLC 86 College Leadership Development

Students newly appointed into leadership positions at John R. Lewis College explore the concept of leadership relating to the college's theme of Social Justice and Community. Prerequisite(s): current John R. Lewis College student leader; permission of instructor.

Credits

2

General Education Code

PR-E

JRLC 92 Social Justice Issues Colloquium

Weekly colloquium on social justice issues with a different topical focus each quarter. Presentations by UCSC faculty and invited speakers. Students must attend class, read an assigned article or book chapter(s) on the week's topic, and write a one-page synopsis.

Credits

1

Instructor

Linnea Beckett

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Winter, Spring

JRLC 95 Social Justice and Nonviolent Communication (Rumi's Field)

Nonviolent Communication provides tools for the work needed to bring our reality closer to the ideal of a world with dignity and equity for all its members. Explores righteous anger, grief, empathy, diplomacy, and making requests others want to say "yes" to. The course nickname is "Rumi's Field," which comes from a Rumi poem: "out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing/there is a field/I'll meet you there." Formerly Social Justice and Nonviolent Communication (Rumi's Field Living-Learning Community).

Credits

2

Instructor

Caren Camblin

Repeatable for credit

Yes

General Education Code

PR-E

Quarter offered

Fall

JRLC 98 Alternative Spring Break

Provides students with the opportunity to conduct service-learning work in a local Santa Cruz community over spring break. There are four preliminary class meetings in the winter quarter. Winter meeting attendance is required. Enrollment is by interview only. Enrollment is restricted to College Nine and John R. Lewis College members.

Credits

2

Instructor

Linnea Beckett

General Education Code

PR-S

Quarter offered

Spring