Affiliated Courses
EKIN 1160 — Health and Education in Urban Communities (1 credit)
This introductory course to Husky Sport began in the Fall of 2011 as a response to student requests to become involved beyond simply volunteering. The course also serves as the beginning of the Husky Sport pipeline and is intended to involve underclass students in multiple disciplines in direct-action service and organizing activities in low-income communities. It involves off-campus travel to Hartford where class members will be working, participating with community activists and neighborhood residents, and be supported by the collaborative energies of several community partners. Students attend class once per week and are expected to complete 15 hours of service in Hartford at any of the six sites.
In the spring of 2012, EKIN 1160 will also be taught at Capital Prep High School in Hartford. Students enrolled in this course will receive one UConn credit for their involvement. They will use the same syllabus and have the same expectations for attendance, readings, discussions, written reflections and service as the UConn students. This course serves to fill a missing link between the younger Hartford students, who the Capital Prep students will engage with during their service hours with Husky Sport, and the UConn students. The pipeline from grade school to high school to college is visible through everyone who will now be engaged in Husky Sport.
EKIN 1160 Syllabus (Fall 2011)
EKIN 3547 — Introduction to Sport Based Youth Development (3 credits)
The original Husky Sport course, first taught in the Spring of 2006, builds on the exposure to issues of racial and economic inequalities in health and education students receive in EKIN 1160. Students are expected to complete 40 hours of service in Hartford for this course. In addition, one of the foundational goals of the course is to channel the knowledge and resources that the class members create into projects that will improve the community and help residents. Students are encouraged to use creativity, initiative, and leadership skills.
EKIN 3547 Syllabus (Fall 2011)
EKIN 3547W — Introduction to Sport Based Youth Development (Writing Intensive, 3 credits)
EKIN 3547W is a required course for sport management majors in the spring of their junior year. The course is restricted for only these students and requires them to complete a minimum of 15 pages of writing which is reviewed by the instructor and peers and revised for final submission. The remainder of the course requirements are identical to EKIN 3547.
EKIN 3547W Syllabus (Fall 2011)
EKIN 4300 — Advanced Sport Based Youth Development (EKIN 3547/W prerequisite, 3 credits)
Formerly taught as an independent study course for students who had taken EKIN 3547 or EKIN 3547W and desired to continue to stay involved in Husky Sport and benefit from an additional academic workload related to their service, EKIN 4300 is being offered for the first time in the Spring 2012. Students will have already completed EKIN 3547 or EKIN 3547W. In EKIN 4300, the students will continue to read, discuss, and write written reflections on issues of racial and economic inequities as well as complete another 40 hours of service in Hartford. The preference is that students spend that 40 hours at one site and begin to become a more regular presence at that site.
EKIN 4300 Syllabus (Fall 2011)
EKIN 5518 — Introduction to Sport Based Youth Development (Graduate)
EKIN 5518 is the graduate version of EKIN 3547 and meets concurrently with that course. Graduate students are expected to take a leadership role in the course by planning a class discussion around a book of their choosing from the syllabus as well as in the one of the class event planning projects. Graduate students are asked to provide guidance to their project group and serve as a liaison between the site and the students in the class in the planning of these projects.
EKIN 5518 Syllabus (Fall 2011)