Featured Projects
This showcase features a sampling of these student projects from recent CIVC 101 classes. We are so grateful for the students who truly dug into these projects and produced meaningful pieces, as well as all of the instructors and Course Assistants throughout the years that have taught the class and supported the students.
Many of the CIVC 101 murals are also on display at the Lindy Center鈥�Click on a project to see the full-size image.
Green Philadelphia
These students focused on environmental sustainability and the built environment, looking at ways architecture can both contribute and take away from sustainability.
These students focused on income inequality and poverty. Their project is a Monopoly-style game board game that shows factors that contribute to poverty.
This group was concerned with waste and the environment. Their project was a mural that shows contrasting worlds—one with heavy pollution and the other clean and flourishing.
These students focused on issues of healthcare equity and were inspired to create this hand-drawn mural from our in-class discussion about the differences between equity, equality, and justice. [No text in field]
These students produced an infographic describing the issue of gender-based inequality.
These students produced an infographic describing the issue of plastic pollution.
The students who created this mural were concerned with access to mental health services and also the proliferation of AI.
This mural is about the dangers of overusing social media for young people. There were four group members and each designed one letter of the word 鈥淥KAY鈥� to reflect their own relationship with social media. The background of the mural has several QR codes that lead to information about social media use and young people.
These students focused on global environmental destruction and disasters and wanted to show how environmental degradation impacts communities.
This mural focuses on educational inequality, including school funding, the pressure of grades and getting ahead, and disproportionate numbers of men and women in STEM education.
This project provides research-based information on educational inequality while encouraging community involvement and action to support equitable access to education.
This mural explores environmental sustainability by highlighting issues such as urban environmental impacts, invasive species, and sustainable engineering solutions, encouraging awareness and collective action for a healthier future.
This mural raises awareness about food access by exploring barriers to healthy food, the role of EBT programs, and the disparities between underserved and well-resourced communities while promoting a vision of greater food equity.
This zine examines barriers to book access in prisons, highlighting how limited educational resources affect incarcerated individuals and advocating for greater access to reading, learning, and personal growth.
This zine explores the causes and impacts of food insecurity, raising awareness about barriers to reliable access to nutritious food and encouraging action toward more equitable food systems.
This zine examines immigration and belonging, highlighting the experiences of immigrant communities while advocating for dignity, inclusion, and equitable treatment for all people.
Student Project Highlight: Tri-fold Brochure
Barriers on the Road to Healthcare: Transportation Challenges in South Philadelphia
These students created a brochure about transportation challenges in South Philadelphia.
The inside part of the tri-fold brochure.
The outside part of the tri-fold brochure.