The Center for Community Partnerships has awarded the following Summer Course Development Grants for 1995. Grants are awarded for proposals demonstrating academic excellence; integration of research, teaching and service; partnership with community groups, schools, service agencies, etc.; and a focus on Philadelphia, especially West Philadelphia. Proposed courses will involve participation or community.
**Dr. Eric Cheyfitz and Farah Griffin, English; Proposal for a
Course in Community Studies Linking Penn Undergraduates and West
Philadelphia High School Students.
**Dr. Peter Conn, English; English 388: American Studies.
**Dr. Alan Filreis, English; Teaching the Holocaust as Model for
High School-University Partnerships.
Dr. Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Sociology; Sexuality, Health, and
Adolescent Development.
Dr. Robert E. Kohler, History and Sociology of Science;
Environmental History and the Urban Scene.
Dr. Julia Paley, Anthropology and Urban Studies; Methods in Urban
Ethnography.
Dr. Peggy Reeves Sanday, Anthropology; Cultural Pluralism:
Ethnography and Community Service.
Dr. Anne Whiston Spirn, Landscape Architecture and Regional
Planning; Landscape and Community in the Mill Creek Watershed.
Dr. Thomas Sugrue, History; Institutions and Neighborhood Change:
West Philadelphia and North Philadelphia, 1940-1990.
--Dr. Francis E. Johnston, Anthropology,
and Dr. Albert Stunkard, Psychiatry,
Co-Chairs, Faculty Advisory Committee,
Center for Community Partnerships