Socially Engaged Courses
Courses emphasizing socially engaged practice offer students and faculty an opportunity to engage and collaborate with partners throughout the St. Louis community, critically examining social issues and proposing solutions with tangible impact.
The Office for Socially Engaged Practice supports this coursework through grants and awards and through the minor in creative practice for social change.
Students can use this list to discover current Sam Fox School courses focusing on engaging with and critically examining St. Louis and social issues. For the most up-to-date course information and to register, visit Workday Student.
Featured Courses
Architecture for Non-Architects
Architecture for Non-Architects introduces students majoring in programs other than architecture to the process in which architects think about, view, and produce the built environment.
Community Design Sprints
Students provide scoping, phasing, programming, and conceptual design for small-scale yet pressing St. Louis needs through selected projects for community members and small organizations.
Fields + Frames
Students undertook a series of assignments where they move between the design of a frame and a ceramic field, collaborating with a community partner to create a temporary public art installation.
The Racialized Sporting Landscape of St. Louis
This seminar examines the history of sports and race in St. Louis, illuminates the realities of access and inequity in the sporting landscape of the city, and imagine more equitable futures.