World Awareness Club
This civic engagement project centered on starting a club on campus that would focus on global justice issues. To jump start the club, they organized an art show and auction to raise awareness on global hunger and raise money for Action Against Hunger–an organization that focuses on ending child malnutrition by providing clean water and sustainable food solutions. Continue reading
Art with Kids
Three students worked together to raise money and art supplies for the kids in Banks School. They also taught three classes in the school; after preparing lesson plans that met with the local teacher’s enthusiastic approval, they taught the little kids some drawing, composition, and coloring techniques. Continue reading
Animal Ethics Club
The Animal Ethics Club, now in its 6th year of operation, started as a civic engagement project. Four students created the club, organized work parties at a local farm sanctuary and a clinic for homeless people and their animals, educated students about vegetarian and vegan food, served free vegan food, and raised money for local animal groups. Continue reading
Logical Fallacies
In two separate semesters, philosophy majors at Pacific University taught high school students some critical thinking skills by focusing on logical fallacies. They contacted local teachers at different high schools, did research on philosophy for kids, prepared lesson plans, and taught the classes by themselves, receiving rave reviews from both students and teachers. Continue reading
Biking
Two students started a new club at the university: the Bike Club. They registered the club, organized bike rides, and put on two bike repair workshops. Continue reading
Engaged Philosophy
gives faculty and students tools to implement activist or service projects in philosophy classes—assignment guidelines, sample projects, and testimonials and data supporting civic engagement results. We welcome contributions from other philosophers involved in this work.
Contributors
- Prof. Ramona Ilea, Pacific University Oregon
- Prof. Susan Hawthorne, St. Catherine University
- Prof. Monica “Mo” Janzen, Anoka Ramsey Community College
About CE Projects
Students doing civic engagement projects in their philosophy classes commit to making changes in their communities. The projects help students apply philosophical concepts to real-world issues and real-world experience to philosophical concepts.
Testimonials
“This project served as a way for me to understand the connections between philosophy and the environmental world—something that I had been searching for in many of my other philosophy classes.”