2010 TAA Conference on Text and Academic Authoring
Ramada Mall of America Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 24-26, 2010
Friday, June 26, 2008
12:00 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Trinidad
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Service Learning Through Applied Projects
Moderator:
Nancy Volkman, Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station
This roundtable will discuss how to involve groups, particularly students, in active, realistic learning experiences through the use of service learning projects. These projects are typically done for not-for-profit groups, small communities, minority groups, and others who could benefit from professional quality research or applied projects but cannot afford them. Volkman will discuss and illustrate some of the types of projects that her undergraduate and graduate students have worked on over the years in the field of landscape architecture. She will also draw from the experiences of colleagues in the natural sciences, social sciences and planning to cover the variety of service learning that can be done. Strategies for success, challenges, and potential outcomes will also be discussed.
Nancy J. Volkman is a graduate of Beloit College, Beloit, WI and University of Illinois, Urbana, IL. She currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. She There her principal areas of teaching have focused upon landscape history, cultural landscape studies, design and planning for historical landscapes, and community design. She is widely published, particularly in the area of landscape history, including the leading text and reference in that field, Landscapes in History, co-authored with Phil Pregill, now going into its 3rd edition. Professor Volkman is a member of several honor societies, including Phi Kappa Phi, and a registered landscape architect in the state of Texas. She is also in her third year as co-editor of ARRIS — The Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.
