Category: Courses & Independent Study

For the second year in a row, a team of Carleton College students has moved to the final round in the national Debating for Democracy competition.

We are currently looking for applicants for a unique and exciting position for August 2011 – August 2012 supported by the Minnesota Literacy Council and AmeriCorps! Carleton Science and Higher…

Perhaps we could put a link to that in to our website to demonstrate the work that ACE folks are doing in their courses

Summer is getting closer, but it’s not too late to start figuring out your plans. Here are some ways to get involved with the local community over break: Camp Sol…

Kate Adkins’s work on public health projects started in an unexpected way: tutoring. “I really wanted to be in the community,” the senior Biology major recalls…

Monday, February 14^th

5:30-7:30pm

Leighton 305

Liz Kuoppala and Mike Thorsteinson, two leaders on housing issues in Minnesota, will be featured in the 2011 Civic Engagement Series through an event entitled “Housing and Inequality: Issues and Next Steps from Leaders in the Field.”

“At first, I was skeptical of how tutoring would work,” says Ned Heckman ’13, remembering when he started his Educational Psychology course last fall. “But I realized that a lot of what we talk about our classes can be futile if we don’t try to experience it.” As part of the course’s academic civic engagement component…

Thursday, January 27th, 7:30-9:00pm, Alumni Guest House Meeting Room

Professor Abdi Kusow, a noted sociologist who has written extensively about African immigrants to North America, will be giving a talk entitled “Somali Immigrants in the United States: Conceptualizing Transnational Migration in a Stateless Global Context.”

Northfield High School is looking for students to help mentor its robotics team. The school’s Industrial Technology department recently received a $6500 grant to build a robot and compete at…

Northfield News currently has an opening for a reporter intern as well as a multi-media intern–someone who is well-versed in photography, video and the Internet.

Carleton students are also invited to…