TCNJ faculty are at the heart of the Bonner Center’s mission to cultivate the common ground that exists between the College and the needs and interests of the community. And, faculty engagement is on the rise. On a weekly basis a visitor might find professors speaking to first year students before they embark on their CEL (Community Engaged Learning) Day, guiding students as they complete a class-based project to address a local community need, or forming and advising a new student club that will apply professional skills to a developing country.

Twenty-eight faculty members incorporated community-engaged learning into their first year seminar courses (FSPs) during the Fall 2008 Semester.

Fall 2010 FSP CEL (Community Engaged Learning Courses)

Click here for some examples of projects being worked on by students enrolled in these classes.

  • Aging, Death and Dying
  • American Film Renaissance of the 1970s
  • Applied Theater: Letterman Meets American Idol, Transforming Beliefs through Theater and Imagination
  • Being the Change: Analyzing Mentoring Relationships
  • Black, White and Brown
  • Corrupting the Youth: The Power of Philosophy
  • Corrupting the Youth (Section 2)
  • Diversity and Its Responses
  • Drug and Alcohol Abuse in American Society
  • Exploring Amish Culture
  • Ewing’s 20th Century
  • From Lincoln to Obama: Race and Politics in American History
  • From the Ballroom to the Street: Exploring American Dance
  • Human Ability: Unplugged
  • Images of Superheroines
  • In Pursuit Of Innovation
  • Incarceration Nation: Literature of the Prison
  • Kids and Crime
  • Language and Culture
  • Language in Society
  • Leadership for Social Justice
  • Learning How to Learn
  • Marketing and Public Policy: Shaping Behaviors and Thoughts
  • Moral and Social Issues of Modern Catholicism
  • Morality, God, and Free Will
  • Morality, God, and Free Will (Section 2)
  • Mortality, Mind, and the Meaning of Life
  • Mortality, Mind and the Meaning of Life (Section 2)
  • Multicultural New York: The City from its Beginnings to the Present
  • Music and the Holocaust
  • Normal? Issues of Identity and Difference
  • Rock ‘N’ Roll in Post-Mao China
  • Scaling Back: Simplicity, Community, Sustainability
  • Springsteen’s Lyrics as Literature
  • Springsteen’s Lyrics as Literature (Section 2)
  • Teachers in Media: The Examination of the Perfect Teacher
  • The Digital Domain
  • The Evolution of African American Gospel Music
  • The Mathematics of Voting, Apportionment, and Fair Division
  • The Persistence of Memory
  • To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Reading and Writing the Short Story
  • Urban Soundscapes
  • What Makes Great Literature Great?
  • Wit and Humor as Art and Social Tool
  • Women and the Family in Modern China
  • Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Remedies
  • You have the right to remain silent (and other rights too)!

Fall 2009 FSP CEL (Community Engaged Learning Courses)

Click here for some examples of projects completed by students enrolled in these classes.

  • American Transformations: European Refugees of the 1930s and 40s in Music, Theater, and Film 1 and 2
  • Being Me, Knowing You — Foundations for Human Encounter
  • Being the Change: Analyzing Mentoring Relationships
  • Black, White and Brown
  • Deconstructing Autism: A View from the Inside
  • Diversity and Its Responses
  • Evolution of African Amercina Gospel Music
  • Exploring Amish Culture
  • Female Sexuality: A Myth
  • From the Ballroom to the Street: Exploring American Dance
  • Ghosts of Schools Past: A Historian’s View of Urban Schooling
  • Hollywood Before the Code Changed Everything
  • Human Abilities: Unplugged
  • ‘Incarceration Nation’: Literature of the Prison
  • Income Inequaliy (Session 1 and 2)
  • Leadership for Social Justice
  • Lies They Told Me: Finding Truth in a World of Lies
  • Living in a Virtual World
  • Menace to Society: The Condemnation of Philosophical Ideas in the Bertrand Russel Case – Session 1 and 2
  • Mortality, Mind, and the Meaning of Life- Session 1 and 2
  • Multicultural New York: The City from its Beginnings to the Present
  • Protecting New Jersey’s Pine Barrens
  • Race, History and the Fictive Imagination
  • Reading and Writing the Short Story – Sessions 1 and 2
  • Scaling Back: Simplicity, Community, Sustainability
  • The Vanishing Amazon
  • This Is Your Life on Music
  • Vietnam War and the Hollywood Cinema
  • Women and the Family in Modern China – Sessions 1 and 2
  • Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Remedies

Fall 2008 FSP CEL (Community Engaged Learning) Courses

  • Living in a Virtual World
  • Social Justice, History and Practice
  • Mortality, Mind, and the Meaning of Life
  • This is Your Life on Music
  • The Evolution of African American Gospel Music
  • Friends forever: Online Socializing (
  • Simplicity, Society and Sustainability
  • Law, Film and Literature
  • Paradise Lost and Found
  • To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Reading & Writing Short Stories
  • Menace to Society: The Condemnation of Philosophical Ideas in the Bertran Russell Case
  • American Masculinities
  • Some Great Books I
  • Race, History and the Fictive Imagination
  • Social Computing and Collective Intelligence
  • Strong Democracy and Student Leadership
  • Mexican Seminar
  • Global Ecocinema and the Ethics of Environmentalism
  • What Happened to Yugoslavia?
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  • Human Abilities Unplugged
  • Deconstructing Autism
  • Voting with Our Fingers and Electing a President
  • The Social Documentary
  • Leadership for Social Justice
  • Incarceration Nation: The Literature of the Prison
  • The American Dream