This semester, students in Scobey's class worked on projects ranging from teaching poetry in Ann Arbor elementary schools to Detroit restoration. In Search of the American Civil Rights Movement. While it's in the LHSP, the class is open to all University students. After that, students get involved with a social activist project. Here, students get to meet people, go places and get involved.
Students come back feeling empowered.
It takes students out of the campus setting an places them in adult prisons, juvenile facilities and urban high schools, where they lead theater workshops. Rather than simply reading drama, the classes actively focuses on a single script and collaborates to put together a full-length play that they perform onstage at the end of the term. Students can register in groups to spend a semester constructing a Website on a chosen humanities topic.