UC Berkeley Students Take on Global Poverty
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Community-based Service Learning Engineering Management General Engineering, Engineering Science |
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| Learning Resource Type: |
Teaching - Lecture/Presentation |
| Media Type: |
WWW |
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Organization:Blum Center, UC Berkeley |
| Description: | Meet the students who have helped make UC Berkeleys "Global Poverty & Practice" program the fastest-growing minor on campus. Chosen by about 300 students from a wide range of disciplines, the program teaches students about the problem of poverty and sends them out into the field to carry out their own projects to alleviate poverty somewhere in the world. Enrollment in the program's introductory course has shot up from 200 students when it was introduced in 2007, to a capacity enrollment of 724 this semester. Offered by the Blum Center for Developing Economies, the Global Poverty and Practice minor now has students doing service projects in more than 30 different countries. (5:48 minute video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian, Media Relations) |
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| Keywords: | Blum Center UC Berkeley poverty service learning |
| Is Component of: |
Blum Center for Developing Economies |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(c) Design a system, component, or process (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
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An excellent cross-disciplinary curriculum with the goal of reducing poverty with a strong service-learning component. |
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Easy |
| Interactivity Level: |
Low |
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| Publication Date: | July 2011 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX8at5wtD6k |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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