Brandie L. Green, Ph.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology

Service Learning Course(s):

• Urbanization and Vulnerable populations
   (KINE3350) 

“I wanted to do a service learning so that the students would be able to learn but then also be able to apply what they learned to the field."

Dr. Brandie Green has been teaching at UTA since 2017 and soon became interested in service learning because of her desire to take a more hands-on approach to teaching in her classroom. She began teaching a designated service learning course without having any knowledge about how service learning worked, so she decided to learn more about service learning in order to implement it correctly in the classroom. This led her to the Faculty Fellows Program where she has been able to invest more time developing service learning projects for future classes. She hopes to eventually this component to all of her classes as she feels her students have a better understanding and will be more willing to learn in a service learning course. She has previously partnered with Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration, where students did surveys in stores within food deserts (areas without healthy food options within a mile of their residents) which worked to provide stores with healthy food options. In addition to this, Dr. Green also teaches a class where every student has their own individual service learning project and their own separate nonprofit community partner to work with. That is over 50 service learning projects that Dr. Green is in charge of overseeing. She has presented on this cumulative experience project at the Texas Society for Public Health Education (TSOPHE) and believes it greatly benefits students’ perspectives of their communities because they are able to help in a way they never have before.

Dr. Green advises faculty interest in service learning to remember that it is not as hard they might think it is. She believes that while starting out in service learning is a challenge at first, the end result has been so much better that anything she could have hoped for.