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The course teaches students how to carry out ethnographic research from the development of a research question to a final conference presentation and ethnographic research article. Projects are health related and carried out in partnership with the Center for Health Disparities Research at UC Riverside’s School of Medicine. Students will gain an understanding of the social and structural mechanisms for how inequality “gets under the skin” while also gaining skills in participant observation, in-depth interviewing, life histories, material culture analysis, and qualitative data analysis using NVivo. Students are research assistants on the project and work collaboratively with undergraduate and graduate students at UC Riverside. The experience positions students for employment in the fields of social science research, public health, non-profit sectors and/or applying to graduate programs in anthropology, health sciences, and related professions. Past students have received intense mentorship, disseminated their research beyond the classroom, and work collaboratively on a multidisciplinary research team.

Faculty Instructor(s): Amy Dao ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Department: Geography and Anthropology

HRT 3830 - Food & Beverage Operations course, exemplifies the best of polytechnic learning. Undergraduate students sharpen their practical professional experience at the Restaurant at Kellogg Ranch (our classroom laboratory). Students rotate weekly through various positions in both the front of the house and back of the house, in order to learn all aspects of a food & beverage operation. Our goal is to enhance student learning by allowing them to provide excellent service to paying guests, prepare quality menu items in the kitchen, develop individual leadership style by managing their peers, and create and execute strategic restaurant management plans- all within an optimized & controlled environment. Students receive industry-standard feedbacks & training through our experienced instructors. The course is regarded by industry experts as the equivalent of a top-quality "Manager-in-Training" program; known to many top brands and their talent acquisition teams.

Faculty Instructor(s): Jason Zhang ( Email)
College/Division: Hospitality
Department: Hospitality Management - Food & Beverage

Faculty Instructor(s): Gabriel Davidov-Pardo ( Email)
College/Division: Agriculture
Department: Nutrition and Food Science

The Learn Through Discovery Projects Hatchery (Hatchery) provides students support and resources to explore ideas that they are passionate about and turn them into projects that have real impact on communities. With projects ranging from applied research, start-up's, to community events, students from all disciplines engage in three phases that first allow them to explore their topic (through identifying and understanding the problem to be solved), further develop their idea (by preparing a proposal and budget), and finally, implementing and assessing the project (the Hatchery provides up to $8,000 in funding at this phase). Students receive peer, staff, and faculty mentoring during the process and cross-collaborate with other students and faculty within the Hatchery.

Faculty Instructor(s): Winny Dong ( Email)
College/Division: University-wide
Department: Learn Through Discovery

The Cal Poly Pomona McNair Scholars Program prepares eligible undergraduate students for PhD programs by promoting student success through undergraduate research, faculty mentorship, and a series of skill building workshops. The program aims to increase the number of first-generation, low-income and/or underrepresented students in PhD programs, and eventually, to increase diversity among faculty at higher education institutions across the country. McNair Scholars are provided with opportunities to participate in research activities during the academic year and summer. Scholars attend our McNair Course (CPU 4750 and CPU 4760), seminars and workshops on topics related to graduate school preparation, conduct research under the guidance of a faculty mentor, and have the chance to present their research at conferences.

Faculty Instructor(s): Elena Alvarez ( Email)
College/Division: University-wide
Department:

EWS 4430 - Women, Health, and Body Politics Zine Making is designed to educate and empower students to become active knowledge producers by contributing to two zine libraries on the Cal Poly Pomona campus. Located at the Pride Center and the Womxn’s Resource Center, these two cultural centers serve as ideal locations to share what students learn with the larger campus community. Zines are pieces of original art-activism. They are handmade magazines that generate visual and textual arguments that contribute to activist and social justice movements. By synthesizing their knowledge and applying it in inventive and purposeful ways, students in this course will demonstrate the knowledge they have gained about intersectional body politics and intersectional identities. Most impactfully, this course prepares students to became curious and imaginative change-makers.

Faculty Instructor(s): Shayda Kafai ( Email)
College/Division: Education & Integrative Studies
Department: Ethnic and Women's Studies

The PolyPet Spa Day/Vaccine Clinic provides low-cost vaccines, microchipping, lab tests and other free services to local community pets. Students from lower division classes collaborate with students from upper division classes to work this semi-annual event. Students engage in intense mentorship before and during the event, apply critical thinking skills by determining individualized vaccine schedules and testing regimen, use communication skills to engage with clients, collaborate with other students, and disseminate veterinary medical information to the community at large.

Faculty Instructor(s): Joanne Sohn ( Email)
College/Division: Agriculture
Department: Animal and Veterinary Sciences

Faculty Instructor(s): Linchi Kwok ( Email)
College/Division: Hospitality
Department: Collins College of Hospitality Management

The Poly Post is a collaborative, experiential learning experience that relies on intense mentoring from its student editors and faculty adviser to create a rewarding newsroom environment and serve the information needs of the Cal Poly Pomona community. Editors manage their respective beats, assign stories, edit, fact-check and help staff writers navigate interviews and information gathering. The Poly Post leadership learns how to manage personalities and motivate staff. Student-journalists engage with all facets of the campus community – clubs, student orgs, ASI, academic senate, faculty, staff, alumni, and the administration – to inform the campus and distribute news to a diverse public audience. Students work with a variety of multimedia platforms to develop a portfolio of work; these include print and digital news stories, videos, photographs, graphics, and podcasts. The content is distributed through a weekly print edition and digital newsletter, a continuously updated website, and an annual magazine (the Bronco Guide). The staff also manage various social media accounts including Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter, and are working on the launch of a mobile news app.

Faculty Instructor(s): Jason Turcotte ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Department: Communication

HRT 3410, Professional Work Experience, provides students an intense look at one’s knowledge, skills, and abilities and how to best leverage them for future career success. Students complete a battery of career engagement activities, including attending professional development workshops, reflection writing, resume development, practice interviewing software, to name a few. Students disseminate their knowledge beyond the classroom by connecting with others on LinkedIn, Handshake, and informational interviewing. They receive intense mentorship through the resume refinement process, apply critical thinking skills by evaluating future career paths, use communication skills to connect with classmates through discussion board posts, collaborate with other students, and use their creativity to present themselves to differentiate themselves to employers from their peers.

Faculty Instructor(s): Ann Lara ( Email)
College/Division: Hospitality
Department: Collins College Of Hospitality Management

ANT 3500HS Environment, Technology and Culture (Honors, Service-Learning) is a general education class (D4 or B5) that takes an applied anthropological approach to confronting the climate crisis and achieving sustainability goals. This course engages students in community-based action research projects in partnership with service-learning partners, including CHERP Locally Grown Power (LGP). Students have a unique opportunity to take part in a just transition to renewable energy by supporting CHERP LGP’s mission to establish the world’s first ever, non-profit solar panel assembly factory in Pomona, which will provide discounted electricity to low-income residents. Divided into teams based on particular interests and skills, students undertake group projects through intense mentorship with Dr. Blair, as well as dedicated staff at CHERP LGP. Projects may include, but are not limited to: community solar access and outreach; volunteer program design; workforce development; regenerative economic modeling; climate action policy implementation; environmental scan research; and GIS mapping. Students typically present their findings to CHERP LGP’s Board of Advisors and the broader community.

Faculty Instructor(s): James Blair ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Department: Geography and Anthropology

Faculty Instructor(s): Marc Scarcelli ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Join a community dedicated to supporting the career, academic, and co-curricular success of first-year Collins College students. The Pineapple Club provides support to keep each student in school progressing toward graduation, with the ultimate goal of attaining a successful career in the hospitality industry. Activities include general meetings, peer advising, faculty advising, the annual Industry Immersion trip, and open house.

Faculty Instructor(s): Ann Lara ( Email)
College/Division: Hospitality
Department: Hospitality Management

Learning experiences applying previous knowledge to assess a problem, design a solution and bring the solution to market.

Faculty Instructor(s): Nastaran Simarasl ( Email)
College/Division: University-wide/Academic Affairs
Department: Student Innovation Idea Labs

Achieve Scholars peer mentors are student leaders represented from all disciplines. Peer mentors conduct research and help support students from the campus community learn about engaging in extra/co-curricular activities with an emphasis on research and creative activities. Peer mentors are trained for a semester in CPU 4990 every fall, conduct outreach, and lead presentations to inform early career students on how to start their research journeys. Peer mentors meet regularly with their mentees and build a sense of community.

Faculty Instructor(s): Ever Barraza ( Email)
College/Division: University-wide/Academic Affairs
Department: Office of Undergraduate Research

Cal Poly's longest-running student-led arts and literature journal

Faculty Instructor(s): Aaron DeRosa ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences
Department: English & Modern Languages

Program evaluation is an interdisciplinary skill set. It can be applied to most fields to gather information and provide feedback about the effectiveness of a program, project, event, practice, etc. In this team-oriented course, students will learn the fundamentals of program evaluation (including its purpose, components, and logic) and work in permanent teams to apply evaluative thinking across multiple activities and projects based on real-world materials. With instructor supervision, teams will communicate with a campus partner (from a center, program, or department) to identify an evaluation project, develop surveys and interviews, collect and analyze data, and write and present a report. In summary, this course provides students the opportunity to work in teams to conduct evaluations and gain research experience.

Faculty Instructor(s): Michael Giang ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences
Department: Psychology

In AMM 4630, students work on an interdisciplinary apparel research project that includes sustainable fashion, agriculture, water use, and economic development topics. Students develop leadership skills by going through a collaborative research process in teams and develop high quality research papers and presentations. This project aims to address USDA Strategic Goal 4 to facilitate rural prosperity and economic development. With a focus on US sheep and wool, students learn about the process of developing a literature review, database development, surveys, data visualization, and analysis. They obtain IRB training and use software (Excel, QGIS) to support their research. This research experience aims to build students’ confidence in research for future academic and professional development as a Course Based Undergraduate Experience (CURE). This work is supported by a Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program (HSI) Grant no. 2020-38422-32253 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Faculty Instructor(s): Helen Trejo ( Email)
College/Division: Agriculture
Department: Apparel Merchandising & Management

IBM 3292- In this Mobile Marketing course, student teams use the design thinking method to create mobile application prototypes for real clients. We have worked with CPP Alumni Relations, World Affairs Council of Orange County, SMART stress management, and Kismet dating app to design new mobile apps or app extensions. Using the Stanford design thinking approach, students practice empathy, listening, collaboration, and experimentation to create user-centered designs. This project enables students to further understand the course material, and improve their technological and problem-solving skills. At the end of the term, teams present their mobile app prototypes and digital marketing plans to the client. The presentation includes visuals of what was created in each step (i.e. empathy map, wireframes, and prototypes, focus group findings and modifications made based on findings), to demonstrate their creativity and critical thinking process throughout the process. The students then handoff their prototypes, so the client can then use these to design their new mobile app, and the digital marketing materials students create are published on the client’s website and social media channels.

Faculty Instructor(s): Kristen Schiele ( Email)
College/Division: Business Administration
Department: International Business and Marketing

UHS Events is a student-led event team. Students who participate in the program identify the needs of UHS residents and create an event that meets the needs of the residential population. During the event planning process, students are responsible for defining team roles and responsibilities, seeking resources for their event, and setting their own event schedules and deadlines. The community that the Event Leads engage with is on campus, specifically the residents who live on campus at UHS. Event Leads are mentored by the staff member who is responsible for the UHS Events program. Event Leads meet with the staff member one-on-one on a weekly basis. During these one-on-one meetings, the staff member and the student check-in and walk through a regular agenda, checking in on the student's participation in the UHS Events Program, as well as their whole experience as a student at Cal Poly Pomona. When checking in about UHS Events, the staff member leads the Event Leads through reflection exercises, asking the students about what they are learning, how they might need to alter their event's focus, and analyze the effectiveness of the methods they are pursuing.

Faculty Instructor(s): Christine Orgeta ( Email)
College/Division: Student Affairs
Department: University Housing Services

In IBM 4990S Rock Your Future, students learn how business acumen can be applied in the social impact and nonprofit sectors. They experience how community engagement can take place in any organization. Projects focus on innovation, collaborative relationships, cultural change, and the connectedness of local and global goals. Students have the unique opportunity to plan and implement a campaign, including creating original marketing pieces and working directly with community leaders. Real results are tracked and presented. The course provides intense mentorship and a multidisciplinary approach that encourages curiosity, discovery, and individual and collective agency.

Faculty Instructor(s): Lydia Chen Shah ( Email)
College/Division: Business Administration
Department: International Business and Marketing

HRT 4150: International Tourism provides students an opportunity to challenge and grow their potential as leaders both in and beyond the classroom and in the workplace. Students explore global concepts such as globalization, postcolonialism, capitalism, cultural intelligence, critical thinking, global minded-ness, and cultural understanding while engaging with Global Exchange Agents from across the globe. Mentorship is conducted through a process of personal feedback provided during each module of the course, discussing mechanisms to encourage growth in cultural intelligence and providing resources such as TedTalks and additional short readings. Using their new found understanding, students are tasked with creating a country specific "Responsible Tourism Guide" and presenting this guide to faculty and students (as well as BroncoScholar) with interests in international exposure such as study abroad.

Faculty Instructor(s): E'Lisha Fogle ( Email)
College/Division: Hospitality
Department: CCHM

Geology Majors work closely with a faculty member to conduct research on a geoscience topic of broad interest. This mentored research may take place in a field or l;aboratory setting, or via computational work on a computer. Students present results and implications of their research at a poster session or professional conference.

Faculty Instructor(s): Jonathan Nourse ( Email)
College/Division: Science
Department: Geological Sciences

“Citizen Science” broadly refers to public participation in scientific research, typically through on-the-ground data collection. These projects are usually developed and overseen by scientists, who have researched and defined particular scientific problems worthy of study, with regular people collecting the data. In this PolyX, students enrolled in Liberal Studies 3041, “The Natural Sciences and the Liberal Arts” participate in a semester long Citizen Science project of their choosing, assisting scientists in collecting and analyzing real-world data. Some students collect descriptive data in real-time through observations of their own bodies or local environments (including their pets) whereas others collect, tag, or analyze data scientists have collected through the use of trap cameras, historical archives/files, audio files, microscope images, X-rays, MRIs, and more. Past projects include Penguin Watch, Project Squirrel, Citizen Endo, Project RattleCam, and Science Scribbler: Placenta Profiles. Students can learn more on websites like Zooniverse.org and SciStarter.com. Through participation in this PolyX, students gain skills collecting and analyzing basic descriptive scientific data and also consider the cultural, political, and social aspects of science, including: how and why science is funded; how science can be inclusive of diverse perspectives; and the importance of communicating scientific research to the public.

Faculty Instructor(s): Teresa Lloro ( Email)
College/Division: Education & Integrative Studies
Department: Liberal Studies

Our judicial interns engage in experiential learning through observation and interactions with judges and lawyers. Judicial interns spend a semester visiting different courts and trial stages, including criminal, family, and juvenile courts, under the supervision of participating judges. In addition to the time spent in court, students meet in the classroom to discuss and analyze their experience. The course provides students with a unique opportunity to engage with different judicial actors, to gain an understanding of judicial procedure, and to become aware of the advantages and disadvantages of our justice system.

Faculty Instructor(s): Elli Menounou ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Students participating in this program gain experience in various aspects of Green and Sustainable Chemistry research. Projects undertaken as part of the program emphasize the adoption and incorporation of green chemistry principles into chemical processes and the production of chemical feedstocks. These approaches include the use of catalysts, safer reagents, green solvents, renewable feedstocks, etc. Students work either independently or in small groups under the mentorship of the research advisor, and gain skills in organic/inorganic synthesis, catalysis, chemical characterization using analytical methods, technical writing, scientific communication etc. They develop leadership skills through taking ownership of their research projects and are expected to work collaboratively with other members of the research group while making progress on the assigned projects. Culminating experiences take various form that include poster or oral presentation of research findings at various local, regional, national conferences, senior/MS thesis, and peer-reviewed publications. These experiences help students make tangible connections with various topics that are offered in their core classes.

Faculty Instructor(s): Alex John ( Email)
College/Division: Science
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry

AMM4970L is a senior apparel retail students' capstone class that offers hands-on “real-world retail business experiences.” Throughout the semester, students take full responsibility to successfully run “Apparelscape (the name of the AMM4970L student-led microbusiness)”. In teams, students develop fashion product design ideas, source products from local vendors/contractors (e.g., embroidery or screen-printing contractors, wholesalers), and sell them to the CPP campus community as well as local consumers outside the campus. The products are distributed through Apparelscapes’ retail venues (e.g., Bldg45 boutique, online website), and are publicly showcased on multiple social media channels (e.g., Instagram, Twitter, TikTok). In this process, students learn how to work collaboratively as a team to successfully fulfill proposed goals, clearly communicate across teams to cooperatively run a business, and demonstrate professionalism to interact with industry vendors outside the campus.

Faculty Instructor(s): Claire Whang ( Email)
College/Division: Agriculture
Department: Apparel Merchandising and Management

Providing fitness program for individuals with disabilities. CPP students will be taking KIN4050S and learn various ways to modify exercise for individual's needs and provide 50-minute exercise session twice a week during 10-week Motor Development Clinic program.

Faculty Instructor(s): Mai Jara ( Email)
College/Division: Science
Department: Kinesiology & Health Promotion

SAS Peer Educators design, facilitate, and implement on-going presentations on sexual violence prevention and awareness education trainings and programs. The SAS Peer Educators actively engage in campus-wide awareness programming, activities, and workshops.

Faculty Instructor(s): Rhonda Dixon ( Email)
College/Division: Student Affairs
Department: California State University, Pomona

The CPP Conservation Scholars Program provides mentored research and professional education in conservation careers for students from under-represented backgrounds. It employs a tiered mentoring structure that includes faculty mentors, senior graduate student mentors, junior undergraduate student mentors, and high school/community college student mentees enrolled in the Los Angeles Audubon Society (LAAS) STEM education programs. All student participants receive regular instruction and mentoring and carry out independent research related to conservation or ecosystem restoration. Periodic meetings with all participating students occur in which the CPP junior and senior mentors teach the LAAS students about their research, how to collect data in the field, how to process data in the lab, and provide a panel discussion of college life and career readiness. All students in the program present their research to each other in a symposium at the end of the Spring semester. The CPP students also present their research at conferences such as CPP RSCA and the Southern CA Academy of Sciences.

Faculty Instructor(s): Erin Questad ( Email)
College/Division: Science
Department: Biological Sciences

The Intervention Symposium incorporates students from two distinct programs: CEIS Department of Education, Education Specialist program and College of Science Department of Kinesiology, APE program. While the mission of both of these programs is supporting K-12 students with disabilities, up until the work on this Symposium, they were discrete programs with no overlap. Seeing as graduates of both programs often work together in the professional field supporting K-12 students with disabilities, the faculty wanted to create intentional collaboration between the two programs. We set about recreating intervention case studies in three courses: EDU 5334: Multi-Tiered Literacy Intervention; EDU 5336: Math Instruction and Intervention for Students with Disabilities; and KIN 4050S: Adapted Physical Education Fieldwork. We developed an Intervention Symposium where students present data findings to peers in both the Education Specialist and Adapted Physical Education (APE) programs. When surveyed, students reported the collaborative preparation for this symposium, as well as the presentations during the discussions, yielded higher confidence rates of talking about data. This translates into more confidence in their first years of teaching as case managers when out in the field where graduates are expected to be leaders in K-12 student progress data discussions.

Faculty Instructor(s): Heather Taylor ( Email)
College/Division: Education & Integrative Studies
Department: Education

The WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) Multi Mode Mentoring and Undergraduate Research project engages students within the Colleges of Agriculture, Science, and Engineering. Participants engage with student peer mentors, faculty mentors, and alumni/industry mentors. This project includes undergraduate research engagement, plus social, academic, and professional support.

Faculty Instructor(s): Nicole Gutzke ( Email)
College/Division: Engineering
Department: Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE)

Peer Health Educators (PHEs) are CPP students who help their peers improve their health, wellbeing and quality of life. They provide information and opportunities for students to learn more about health so they can make informed choices. PHEs work collaboratively as a team to provide up to date health information and innovative programs to students.

Faculty Instructor(s): Kenya Rampersant ( Email)
College/Division: Student Affairs
Department: Student Health and Wellness Services

AMM 3410 Professional Development prepares students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to secure a required internship or a job upon graduation. Students meet a variety of industry recruiters and Cal Poly alumni that provide real-world views that compliment and validate the course curriculum. Coursework includes skills to search for an internship, create a professional cover letter, resume, thank you letter, follow up letter, ePortfolio, and LinkedIn profile. In addition to these documents students receiving training in interview skills to be able to succeed in an employment interview. Students are provided on-going mentoring in each of these areas leading to capstone assignment of a professional set of documents and resources that support their professional branding. The course is proven by the number of employers that seek opportunities to come to the class and the success rate of students finding internships and graduates being hired either from internships or upon graduation. Students comment in their reflective essay that this is the most important course they take in the curriculum.

Faculty Instructor(s): Ron Heimler ( Email)
College/Division: Agriculture
Department: Apparel Merchandising and Management

A service-learning project-based course where students have the opportunity to further develop their skills and to apply their knowledge of linguistics in “real” (out-of-the classroom) settings. Students work in a project called "Bilingualism in Action", where they Identify linguistic needs in our community as well as the role they can have to help other people become thriving bilinguals and, that way, to be agents of change.

Faculty Instructor(s): Amàlia Llombart ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences
Department: EML

Generative art (GenArt for short), emblematic of STEAM pedagogy, refers to art made in part with use of an autonomous computer system, and can be described in this context as making art with code. In this Generative Art PolyX course, students begin to learn how to code within the context of the visual arts, building equity-minded STEAM and CS pathways in an inclusive, accessible environment. While embarking upon critical science and technology studies along the way, and across collaborative visual art projects and written reflections, students connect fine art and visual communication design to computational reasoning and technical skill acquisition applicable to future careers in education and across industries. In a social justice centered learning environment, GenArt PolyX students co-create peer-to-peer LTD collaboration and share their work across the university in peer co-curricular experiences such as the GenArt PolyX Community CodeAThon.

Faculty Instructor(s): Maya Stovall ( Email)
College/Division: Education & Integrative Studies
Department: Liberal Studies

Advanced Spanish majors enrolled in the Spanish Language Assistantship lead weekly small group Conversation Circles for Spanish language learners in lower division language courses. Mentored actively by faculty, students learn the basics of communicative language teaching for beginning language learners. They plan exercises, structure group time, lead the group in the planned activities, communicate professionally with group members, and practice the interpersonal and linguistic skills they will need as future Spanish teachers. The course allows students to develop a portfolio of exercises, activities, and lesson plans; more importantly, perhaps, it allows students test these out in practice, learning the basics of communicative language teaching in a hands-on, experiential way. The Spanish Language Assistantship has been invaluable for future educators as they apply for single-subject teaching credential programs in Spanish.

Faculty Instructor(s): Kent Dickson ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences
Department: English and Modern Languages

This class leads student theatrical designers through the process of designing plays that will be produced by the Department of Theatre & New Dance in the following semester. Designers in all areas (scenic, lighting, costumes, sound and projection/media design) engage in a professionally modeled design process and collaborate with the production's directors, and each other, to arrive at a complete set of design deliverables for production.

Faculty Instructor(s): Sarah or Jesse Krainin (Sarah), Portillo (Jesse) ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences
Department: Theatre & New Dance

Students in Inorganic Chemistry & Spectroscopy Research will learn advanced techniques for advancing fundamental chemical understanding with relevance to pollution remediation, pharmaceutical development, and nuclear waste remediation. Students will work on independent projects as part of a supportive and collaborative team with synergistic projects and common goals. Through mentorship by the research advisor, students will learn organic and inorganic synthesis, air-free synthesis, characterization methods, scientific writing, scientific presentations, and more! Students tackle novel problems and disseminate their work through poster presentations or oral presentations at local, regional, or national conferences and in written work through reports, theses, and peer-reviewed publications.

Faculty Instructor(s): Chantal Stieber ( Email)
College/Division: Science
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry

* This is a collaborative project between IGE and SPN. The collaborative course module will be used in several IGE and Spanish courses as a comparative, multicultural and active-learning experience. For this project, students in IGE 1100/1200 and SPN 3420/4320 will engage in original humanities/social scientific research on postcards from Korea and Mexico (1900-1915 period). The research will take the form of a paper on particular images from the archive and will be an example of intellectual discovery and innovation. The comparative global scope of the project will prompt students to investigate diverse cultural perspectives and ensure that each day students work collaboratively.

Faculty Instructor(s): Hyeryung Hwang ( Email)
College/Division: Education & Integrative Studies
Department: Interdisciplinary General Education/English and Modern Languages

This class explores the fields of Digital History & Family and Genealogical History with a U.S. history focus (global and transnational dynamics welcome). Digital History emphasizes digital tools for for storing and organizing sources as well as for interpreting and sharing history. Thus we will explore databases containing vital records, slave, Native American, and immigration records, as well as consider possible ways of telling family histories. Our core project will be a short documentary film or podcast on a family history topic that you take from conception to production to a class screening. Interested in researching your own family history? Go for it. Or research another family or family history subject of historical interest.

Faculty Instructor(s): Rachel Van ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences
Department: History

The Liberal Studies Student Virtual Showcase, which debuted in Spring 2021 on the department's newly developed department website, allows students across Liberal Studies core courses to expand their understanding of the department's organizing themes of Creativity, Social Justice and Responsibility, Sustainability, and Wellness through the production and exhibition of their research-based work. The work students exhibit stem from a departmental curriculum that incorporates robust community-based service-learning programs across several Liberal Studies courses--LS 4611 "Senior Capstone," LS 4601S "Liberal Studies Synthesis on Public Education," LS 4211 "Arts Integration," LS 4011 "Special Topics," and LS 3041 "Natural Sciences"--as well as other core courses that offer students opportunities for experiential learning and professional skills development. Original student work comes in the form of visual artwork (drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography, mixed media collage, graphic design, conceptual, and other works), performances (music performances, music videos, theater, spoken word poetry, experimental, and other works), short films (live action, animation, and experimental), prerecorded scholarly presentations, written excerpts from papers and poetry, or any other exemplary research-based artistic and/or scholarly work that reflect and engender the Liberal Studies organizing themes of Creativity, Social Justice and Responsibility, Sustainability, and Wellness. Liberal Studies students take on leadership positions in the design, scheduling, organization, management, and promotion of the Liberal Studies Student Virtual Showcase asynchronous exhibition platform and synchronous workshop/presentation series.

Faculty Instructor(s): Jeff Roy ( Email)
College/Division: Education & Integrative Studies
Department: Liberal Studies

This course examines the historical and contemporary issues of social and structural barriers that led to the loss of cultural and traditional practices, inadequate access to healthy foods, poor health, diminished life expectancy, and healthcare disparities among the Native American and Latin American communities. In addition to classroom learning, students will have the opportunity to learn about food insecurity issues, food deserts, and health disparities by conducting hands-on learning. Students will conduct interviews with people from a marginalized culture and learn their perspectives about healthy lifestyle/eating and how the social and structural determinants impact their ability to access healthy eating options. They will assess the food security status of their interviewees by using the USDA food security questionnaire. Students will examine food access issues across the US by exploring the USDA's Food Atlas maps. They will conduct ethnic food store/ local convenience store tour stores in the area of their choice, determine the types of foods sold (staple foods, any traditional ethnic ingredients, produce, etc.), and compare the prices to foods sold in hypermarkets / larger food stores. Students will research measures taken to reduce racial, social, nutrition, and health disparities. Through these activities, students will enhance their knowledge about food, nutrition, and health disparities in marginalized communities.

Faculty Instructor(s): Fatheema Begum Subhan ( Email)
College/Division: Agriculture
Department: Dept. of Nutrition and Food Science

In Apparel Product Development/ Production Simulation Lab, students will utilize the knowledge and skills they learned from previous courses, such as Design and Merchandising Strategies, Technical Design, Pattern/ Marker-making, Physical/ Virtual sampling, AIMS360 (Enterprise Resource Planning system), Sourcing and Quality Control, Promotion and Marketing, etc. and operate as an Apparel Manufacturer to create an apparel line and sell it to Bronco bookstore.

Faculty Instructor(s): Kit Kwok ( Email)
College/Division: Agriculture
Department: Apparel Merchandising and Management

As an Orientation Leader, you play a significant role in supporting incoming students as they begin their educational journey at CPP. You directly impact student success by creating connections among your classmates and fostering a sense of belonging. You will also interact with parents, family members, and other supporters of our students and share information about the student experience at Cal Poly Pomona. Being an Orientation Leader will develop your skills in teamwork, communication, professionalism, leadership, and critical thinking. Students from all majors and colleges are encouraged to apply! The mission of Orientation is to equip students and their supporters with resources and connections to pursue a successful transition to CPP through their academic, personal, and professional goals.

Faculty Instructor(s): Hailee Shafer ( Email)
College/Division: University-wide/Academic Affairs
Department: Office of New Student Programs & Family Engagement

Mentors and mentees interested in participating in the program must commit to a one academic year relationship, starting in the fall semester and ending in the spring semester. The Mentor Program administrator will match mentee applications with mentors based on strengths and areas of interest. There are a limited number of mentors available each year. Not all students who submit a Mentor Program application will be matched with a mentor. Best fit, location and other factors will be taken into consideration when placing students with available mentors. Mentees are responsible for ensuring the quality and depth of the relationship with the mentor.

Faculty Instructor(s): Ann Lara ( Email)
College/Division: Hospitality
Department: Hospitality

AM2 is the brand name of a product line developed by the AMM students in AMM 4140L and 4920L. AMM 4140L and AMM 4920L are senior capstone classes that all AMM production students must take as a part of the core curriculum. The senior capstone course series addressed covers both apparel product development and apparel production in depth where students operate as a wholesale apparel manufacturer. The goal of the capstone course series is to develop an apparel line in a real-world setting to be sold at the CPP bookstore. Both courses are organized as an operating a company.

Faculty Instructor(s): Seoha Min ( Email)
College/Division: Agriculture
Department: Department of Apparel Merchandising and Management

The purpose of this project is to create new experiences for senior engineering students through mentorship, community engagement, multidisciplinary and collaborative learning beyond regular classroom. The experience is of PolyX type and satisfies the 7 criteria of a PolyX. The project goal is achieved via collaborating with a community partner (Ganesha High School in Pomona), the CPP Student Innovation Idea Labs, and a faculty from College of Business. CPP engineering students will work with the high school students in teams to develop and implement innovative engineering systems. They are trained in engineering and science during this process in a hands-on and half-formal manner. Moreover, they mentor and learn from each other while working together. In addition, they will receive tutoring on business-related content, such as entrepreneurship, project management, and strategic management, to enrich the students' soft skills.

Faculty Instructor(s): Ha Le ( Email)
College/Division: Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Sustainability and Land Change Research Lab offers real-world research experience to CPP students interested in studying environmental issues and advancing their studies in human-environment interactions and GIS. The Research Lab goal is committed to bringing up new knowledge that will help stakeholders (i.e., society, government, industry, among others) understand, plan, and build a world that is fair, equitable, and sustainable. The group will achieve this goal by producing good science - science that is open, inclusive, and impactful to society. The group will apply geographical methods, GIS, and GIScience, to generate and communicate new knowledge from existing dataset (or from new dataset that we collected) leading to insights and new ways of human-environment interactions. The Research Lab exists as a PolyX because science is a collaborative effort as is a polytechnic experience, and science is stronger when many minds are tackling the same issue.

Faculty Instructor(s): Gabriel Granco ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences
Department: Geography and Anthropology

Hands-on marketing research experience.

Faculty Instructor(s): Maha Ghosn ( Email)
College/Division: Business Administration
Department: International Business & Marketing Department

The purpose of this project is to introduce some critical equipment and important specialized software tools in the Power and Energy lab as well as the Smart Grid Research Laboratory. This project will be beneficial to students to teach them in virtual environment as well as face-to-face. During Covid-19 pandemic, instructors were limited to teach virtually the very important hands-on lab experiments. With implementation of this project, the instructors will be able to teach in any modes of instruction from virtual to hands-on. The basis for upgrading laboratory classroom is to be able to teach design and advanced experiments to enhance student training so that they will be ready for the workforce of now and future. The limitation of tools and equipment severely limits the instructor ability to develop advanced lab experiments that can be compatible to today's industry standards. Consequently, our students lose opportunities to be trained in certain industry-grade settings. It is an urgent need to upgrade the lab specialized tools to better prepare our engineering students to meet the growing demand of the power and energy industry job market. Our goal is to accelerate training in the forefront areas of power and energy engineering, namely, Smart Grid technologies, power systems stability, Cyber security, Cyber-attacks, Power transmission and distribution modernization, Power electronics, Solar and Wind energy, and Electric Vehicles. The upgrade/replacement of the lab tools will assist instructors to improve our lab and classroom teaching activities related to the above subjects both in virtual and face-to-face mode of teaching. The instructors will be able to design new and more advanced lab experiment, as well as teach and bring the students closer to real-world situations. The students will be able to improve their technical skills, thereby enhancing employment opportunities. The experiences also prepare them for graduate study in the Power and Energy and related fields.

Faculty Instructor(s): Sean Monemi ( Email)
College/Division: Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

This PolyX allows students to engage in cost control mechanisms with CCHM industry alumni mentorship and showcase student skills through the design and costing of a restaurant menu. Team-based problem solving and solution techniques are applied by students in realistic operational situations.

Faculty Instructor(s): E'Lisha Fogle ( Email)
College/Division: Hospitality
Department: CCHM

The process of the project is inherently multidisciplinary and is designed to mimic a real-life Design-Build project, which is based on interdisciplinary collaboration between structural engineers and contractors to deliver a construction project. The project is composed of students from two different programs: Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering and Management (CEM). The process starts with the CE students developing the conceptual design and working on the CE aspects of the project including geotechnical analysis, and structural design and plans. While the CE students are developing the conceptual design and evaluating various options, the CEM students are conducting constructability and value engineering analysis to assess the feasibility, the cost, the schedule, and the sustainability of the design options, and provide recommendations to the CE students to further develop the design to better meet the owner objectives (set by the faculty and industry advisors who act as owners). The CEM students further develop the CE students' design into a 3-D Model to demonstrate what the building will end up looking like to the owner, as well as showcase the progress of the construction. In addition to CPP students, international students from a French university are also invited for a month duration as consultants on the project. This offers the CPP students a diverse perspective and an opportunity to compare construction practices in Europe to the US.

Faculty Instructor(s): Giuseppe (Lomiento); Ghada (Gad); Jin (Sung Cho) ( Email)
College/Division: Engineering
Department: Civil

A multimodal introduction to material processes of writing, analysis, and rhetoric including: historical composition practices such as manuscript and letterpress; textile crafts such as needlecraft and scrapbooking; and digital making such as textual editing, multimodal storytelling, and design.

Faculty Instructor(s): Kate Ozment ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences
Department: English and Modern Languages

Conducted as a Creative Writing workshop, this class emphasizes creativity and the writing process. The students are able to learn the essential techniques of contemporary fiction and non-fiction. During the semester, there are two kind of outputs that allow students to present their words to the world. First, are the writing publications in several forms (literary magazines, zines, a web page created by the same students, etc.), and second, a Podcast hosted in the course's YouTube channel.

Faculty Instructor(s): Claudia Salazar Jiménez ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences
Department: English and Modern Languages

Students explore and develop analytical chemistry techniques to answer pressing biological problems, such as how organisms respond to their environment (and how climate change impacts them). Students will use various analytical instrumentation, disseminate their research, and work across multiple disciplines as they develop their communication and research skills.

Faculty Instructor(s): Gregory Barding ( Email)
College/Division: Science
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry

The Cal Poly Language Learning Workshop explores creative and alternative ways of learning language in the university setting. In the Workshop, Cal Poly students gather in small groups with foreign language speakers to learn and practice specific and useful, student-generated everyday texts. Cal Poly International Students translate texts and then assist students in pronunciation and memorization. The focus is on developing the ability use the language in a cultural and relational context rather than focusing heavily on grammar and syntax. The more traditional and formal components of language learning in the classroom are complemented by this Workshop’s practical and engaging use of the language. Participating international students have been native speakers of Mandarin Chinese, Arabic (Egyptian, Saudi, Lebanese, and Moroccan), Spanish, French, Norwegian, Korean, Portuguese, German, and Cantonese. International students consistently describe feelings of delight and elation at being honored for their language skills in an academic environment in which they often feel isolated, incompetent, and undervalued. Participating students indicate their surprise at being able to walk out of the Workshop able to engage with a native speaker in a short but meaningful dialogue. The Workshop is offered through curricular classes (ANT 1040, ANT 3530) and through eight Cal Poly U-Hour sessions. The Workshop is a collaboration between students in the Department of Geography and Anthropology and Cal Poly’s Global Education Institute (GEI) and English Language Institute (ELI), directed by Rick Yingchuan Wang.

Faculty Instructor(s): Stephen James ( Email)
College/Division: Letters, Arts, & Social Sciences
Department: Geography and Anthropology

Each year the AATCC organization develops a Concept to Consumer (C2C) prompt based on an innovative theme in the apparel and textile industry. They encourage students to propose a unique product line with attention to sustainability features, textile testing for quality, technology, marketing, and merchandising. Students develop a professional poster as an original artistic work that includes visuals and descriptions of their proposed line with justifications based on current industry approaches. The AATCC C2C competition encourages interdisciplinary thinking with attention to apparel, textiles, scientific innovations, design, merchandising, management, technology, and business. Students can work individually, or in teams of 4, while obtaining guidance from faculty before submitting the final poster to the competition for apparel-textile industry review.

Faculty Instructor(s): Helen Trejo ( Email)
College/Division: Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture
Department: Apparel Merchandising & Management

We work with a community partner in a service-learning environment. This includes creating resume-worthy marketing solutions towards real business challenges and focusing on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Intense mentorship helps students progress into leaders and is provided through continuous coaching and industry professionals. Course topics include deep dives into customer acquisition and loyalty, segmentation, value proposition, and integrated marketing.

Faculty Instructor(s): Lydia Chen Shah ( Email)
College/Division: College of Business Administration
Department: International Business and Marketing

This PolyX has a two-fold goal. First, by interviewing a real-life manager followed by the analysis of the interviews in student teams as per the guidelines provided, students will have a stronger grasp of how the various management concepts they are introduced to via the course play out in the real-world setting across levels of management and across industries. These include the key managerial functions, the various roles managers end up taking to effectively perform these functions, the skills that they must possess to be able to be successful at their job, and how they must consider and respond to the multiple stakeholders in their organizations’ internal and external environment. Second, the project aims to provide students with a networking opportunity with professionals in their field of interest, and thereby contributing to both their learning about the course material in an applied way and also providing them with a professional development opportunity.

Faculty Instructor(s): Preeti Wadhwa ( Email)
College/Division: College of Business Administration
Department: Management and Human Resources

The Collaborative for Healthy and Inclusive Learning Environments (CHILE) Studio partners landscape architecture students with K-12 schools and community organizations to create community-led, nature-based, and evidence-based design plans that support health, equity, and climate-resilience. Landscape architecture students taking LA 2121L and LA 6121L participate in the CHILE Studio each Spring. Faculty and students from other departments interested in collaborating with the CHILE Studio are encouraged to reach out.

Faculty Instructor(s): Claire Latané ( Email)
College/Division: College of Environmental Design
Department: Landscape Architecture

Course exclusively for BASES Scholars to examine issues pertaining to stress, mind/body health, interpersonal relationships, sexual health, fitness, and nutrition specific to African American and Black populations within the United States.

Faculty Instructor(s): Zakkoyya Lewis-Trammell ( Email)
College/Division: College of Science
Department: Kinesiology and Health Promotion

In this course, students learn effective methods for communicating chemistry and science. This includes identifying different methods for chemistry communication, communicating chemistry through a variety of digital media, learning how to improve communication skills, and how to highlight their experiences as chemists for communicating with employers. All students will create an original social media presentation and YouTube explainer video for communicating advanced chemistry topics under close mentorship of the instructor.

Faculty Instructor(s): Chantal Stieber ( Email)
College/Division: College of Science
Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry

This course introduces crime analysis and crime mapping and examines techniques used to study crime and disorder patterns and problems in law enforcement today. It covers theories of environmental criminology, various data collection methods, and analyses. Students are given an opportunity to apply theoretical environmental crime concepts to real-life scenarios, including analyzing regional and national crime data and learning to develop effective crime prevention strategies meaningful to law enforcement and communities.

Faculty Instructor(s): Gabriele Plickert ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Department of Sociology

The REPAIR Lab is located in the Collections, Acquisitions, and Resource Discovery Services (CARDS) department of the University Library. CARDS is the "back of house" hub responsible for the acquisition, access, maintenance, preservation, and discoverability of all the University Library's print and electronic collections. Physical collections include print books, print journals, sheet music, maps, CDs, DVDs, and multi-part kits. All these resources undergo a lifecycle of new item processing, basic maintenance, and heavy damage repair. In the REPAIR Lab, students receive training to perform specialized tasks that ensures the Library's physical materials are continuously usable by our entire campus community to support teaching, research, intellectual, and scholarly needs. Students learn in-house processing and physical item repair as well as lifelong skills for academic and career success such as patience, precision, discipline, logic, workflow assessment, and time management in their performance of this indispensable work that supports the University Library's mission and the University's strategic plan.

Faculty Instructor(s): Brinna Pam Anan ( Email)
College/Division: Library
Department: Collections, Acquisitions, and Resource Discovery Services (CARDS)

This course focuses on the theory and practice of delivering historical content to public audiences. All projects in HST 3391/3391S include both original research published in a physical or digital form, such as a digital exhibit or the creation of an archive, and are created as a specific product to fulfill an identified need, often that of a community partner. Students work closely with the faculty member throughout the semester to design, research, and create materials that meet the needs of both course pedagogy and our community partners.

Faculty Instructor(s): Eileen Wallis ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: History

The College of Business Administration’s Singelyn Center for Innovative Analytics is pleased to host this annual opportunity to work on a project in partnership with the City of Pomona. This project is a semester-long elective course (BUS 4990), applying data analytics to the real estate industry. Throughout the semester, a team of students analyzes data on a wide range of challenges facing the residents of Pomona, including homelessness, housing insecurity, rental affordability, and evictions. Students evaluate different policies adopted by the City of Pomona and proposed by community stakeholders to combat these challenges. Students report their findings to help the City improve the living experiences of its residents and the economic vitality of the region.

Faculty Instructor(s): Anthony & Rita Orlando & Kumar ( Email)
College/Division: College of Business Administration
Department: Finance, Real Estate, & Law / Technology and Operations Management

Through examination of trash in our local environment this class will include guidance and critiquing of student work in the analysis and evaluation of geographical characteristics of the natural environment and its human use. Includes field mapping, systematic and random sampling of spatial phenomena, and environmental impact reporting.

Faculty Instructor(s): Kristen Conway-Gomez ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Geography & Anthropology

Students will be guided through the process of creating an in-depth supervised research project on a historical topic using digital primary and secondary sources and incorporating digital media in their finished project. The specific theme of the class will vary by semester. Students will acquire new digital skills (ranging from researching in digital archives to map-making, and website construction to audio and video recording). Students will learn how these skills can enhance the research process as well as the presentation or dissemination of scholarship.

Faculty Instructor(s): Rachael Hill ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: History

Students work collaboratively across multiple disciplines within the theatre (Acting, Designing, Directing, Managing, etc.) to cultivate and execute a theatrical production

Faculty Instructor(s): Brian Newman ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Theatre & New Dance

In the course "AMM 1090 Race and Ethnicity in Fashion: Building Creative Pathways for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion," students embark on a transformative journey that explores the intersection of fashion and social movements led by historically marginalized groups in the US. Through in-depth mentorship with BIPOC fashion designers, students develop a deep understanding of culturally responsive design, empathy, and critical thinking. They engage in antiracism training using virtual reality and immerse in critical readings on marginalized communities' contributions to fashion and social justice. These activities, which include reflective journaling, case studies, and cross-disciplinary discussions, are designed to challenge their assumptions and inspire innovative solutions that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of fashion. Students collaborate across disciplines to propose a fashion capsule collection inspired by their mentorship experiences, promoting inclusivity and respect for diverse cultures. The course provides students with the means to promote and champion diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Faculty Instructor(s): Cindy Cordoba Arroyo ( Email)
College/Division: Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture
Department: Apparel Merchandising and Management

Watershed restoration is the science of enhancing a watershed’s natural ability to recover from human-induced disturbance. Restoration strategies integrate basic concepts of hydrology, sedimentology, geomorphology, and ecology in an effort to reverse degraded water quality and watershed function. These efforts have been embraced by many communities, government agencies and academic institutions as an important step toward mitigating environmental degradation of watersheds and water supplies. This course explores the physical processes of watersheds and stream corridors through lectures, field trips and case study discussions. Students engage in hands-on fieldwork and address current watershed problems at local field sites through a required Stream Team Restoration Project. This interdisciplinary course is appropriate for undergraduate or graduate students with career interests that include natural sciences, ecology, environmental design, civil engineering, urban planning, and geography.

Faculty Instructor(s): Jeff Marshall ( Email)
College/Division: College of Environmental Design
Department: Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies

SOC 4611 – A Sociological Landscape of Pomona, CA, focuses on an in-depth historical and contemporary examination of the City of Pomona. As sociologists, students look for social patterns and question the very things that have been considered commonsense, natural, or inevitable. This course allows students to apply what they learn in the classroom by working with Gente Organizada, a community-led social action non-profit organization whose mission is to organize and build intergenerational power and wellness for youth and immigrant families in Pomona. As part of this collaboration, students contribute to Gente’s social actions by attending and providing public commentary at school board and city council meetings. Students also assist in the data collection, analysis, and publication of Gente Organizada’s yearly Equity Report. In this way, students generate original work that lives outside of the classroom and contribute to Gente Organizada’s social justice efforts.

Faculty Instructor(s): Bianca N. Haro ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Sociology

The Online and Social Media course, housed in the Communication Department, provides a theoretical and practical skill-based learning experience about the strategic use of digital communication, websites, and social media platforms. Students will explore theories and real-life case studies with an implementation phase through an assigned client in the fields of journalism, and public relations as pedagogical tools to learn how to engage audiences meaningfully through digital communication strategies that respond to the strategic goals of organizations, public figures, and social causes. Students will present a full digital strategy to their clients and will create content to be implemented as a final project.

Faculty Instructor(s): Denisse Vasquez-Guevara ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Communication

Originating three years ago as a senior project idea, the PolyNavi Cart has evolved from a simple concept of delivering coffee from the library to a professor's office into a sophisticated, student-driven endeavor at Cal Poly Pomona. Today, the "PolyNavi Cart: The Campus Pioneer" aims to use a sophisticated blend of machine learning, computer vision, and an array of sensors like IMUs, GPS, and Lidar to navigate the campus autonomously. This project offers students from engineering, computer science, and related disciplines a unique, hands-on experience. Students are involved in every aspect of the project—from the initial conceptualization and design to the software development, testing, and final implementation. The project's goals are not only to create a functioning autonomous delivery system but also to provide a rich, educational experience. It encourages students to develop critical problem-solving skills, engage in multidisciplinary collaboration, and gain practical insights into the challenges and opportunities of implementing autonomous technology in real-world scenarios. Additionally, "PolyNavi Cart: The Campus Pioneer" aims to establish partnerships with industry leaders and incorporate student-led research, thereby aligning academic pursuits with industry trends and demands. This holistic approach ensures that students are not just technically proficient but also ready to tackle the complex challenges of the future workforce.

Faculty Instructor(s): Priscilla Zhao ( Email)
College/Division: College of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering

Join a collaborative team of students and staff as they create videos to highlight the Cal Poly Pomona campus. By working alongside full-time staff members, you’ll be exposed to a variety of techniques to help improve your skills and grow as a professional. You’ll get hands-on experience in creating valuable media productions centered around real-world communication and marketing projects. During the process, you’ll gain experience using cameras, lighting equipment, audio equipment, and a variety of other professional media tools.

Faculty Instructor(s): Trevor Henderson ( Email)
College/Division: IT&IP
Department: MediaVision

Students gain hands-on experience in developing video games broadly, and VR experiences specifically, in this PolyX experience structured as a 2-semester sequence. During the Fall semester, students take CS 4700 where we discuss all aspects involved in video game development, from the initial ideation all the way to publication. Students in this course develop their own video games for their class project. During the Spring semester, students can then apply this knowledge in an even more personalized and directly-mentored project where they develop a VR game or experience of their own design, which are presented and demoed at the end of the Spring semester.

Faculty Instructor(s): Markus Eger ( Email)
College/Division: College of Science
Department: Computer Science

Cultivate your unique voice. Choreography - DAN 4300/A investigates the creative process of embodying concepts and practices shaping the creation of interdisciplinary performances for digital contexts, site-specific environments, and stage. This course is a collaborative laboratory between students and the instructor, preparing choreographers to present experimental works at events such as the annual on-campus Site-Specific Dance Festival, the Spring Student-Faculty Dance Concert at the University Theater, and the American College Dance Association annual conference. All majors, abilities, levels of experience, and dance styles are welcome.

Faculty Instructor(s): Jeremy Hahn ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Theatre and New Dance

In Public Relations Campaigns, students apply strategic communication concepts by working with real clients to address their PR challenges. They conduct both secondary and primary research on the client's concerns, creating tailored communication plans and materials based on their findings.

Faculty Instructor(s): Kang Hoon Sung ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Communication

This course explores the use of the Spanish language in a variety of professional settings. It affords students the opportunity to put into practice the knowledge and skills attained in Spanish coursework. Students choose among an array of assignments that better fit their career goals and personal interests, such as observing high school Spanish courses, interviewing teachers, creating Spanish lessons with educational technology tools, talking to high school students about the Spanish BA, or doing interpretation and translations for the community in the legal sector. Students collaborate to disseminate their findings to students and faculty at CPP in order to guide and inspire them in their career paths.

Faculty Instructor(s): Amàlia Llombart ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: English and Modern Languages

The Bronco Access Mentor (BAM) is a dedicated peer mentoring program designed for students registered with the Disability Resource Center (DRC). Our mission is to foster a supportive environment, leveraging campus resources to enhance the success, engagement, and retention of DRC students. Grounded in our vision, we aim to equip DRC students with essential skills vital for their academic journey. These skills encompass various aspects such as time management, effective studying and notetaking, advisory support, and the cultivation of self-regulation skills.

Faculty Instructor(s): Martinez Miguel ( Email)
College/Division: Student Affairs
Department: Disability Resource Center

Short Description of the PolyX:

Faculty Instructor(s): First name of the contact person for the PolyX: Last name of the contact person for the PolyX: ( Email)
College/Division: College or Division where the PolyX is hosted (can be the same college or division as the contact person, but does not need to be)
Department: Department:

This is a one-month summer intensive program that takes place in Paris, France. Students work in collaboration with the landscape design firm Coloco to study urban development issues in the suburb of Val de Fontenay at the Parisian Periphery. Program also includes site-based workshops, walking tours, site visits and lectures with French professors. A field trip to the Versailles School of Landscape Architecture is included. An exhibiton to showcase student work is organized at the beginning of fall semester. Program directors: Rennie Tang and Nina Briggs

Faculty Instructor(s): Rennie (Tang); Nina (Briggs) ( Email)
College/Division: College of Environmental Design
Department: Landscape Architecture

Learn about web and social media content development and management by helping to run the EML Department's website and social media accounts! Hands-on experience will provide you with writing and design examples for your professional portfolio.

Faculty Instructor(s): Prins Kristin ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: English & Modern Languages

This course introduces crime analysis and crime mapping and examines techniques used to study crime and disorder patterns and problems in law enforcement today. It covers theories of environmental criminology, various data collection methods, and analyses. Students are given an opportunity to apply theoretical environmental crime concepts to real-life scenarios, including analyzing regional and national crime data and learning to develop effective crime prevention strategies meaningful to law enforcement and communities.

Faculty Instructor(s): Plickert Gabriele ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department:

The REPAIR Lab is located in the Collections, Acquisitions, and Resource Discovery Services (CARDS) department of the University Library. CARDS is the "back of house" hub responsible for the acquisition, access, maintenance, preservation, and discoverability of all the University Library's print and electronic collections. Physical collections include print books, print journals, sheet music, maps, CDs, DVDs, and multi-part kits. All these resources undergo a lifecycle of new item processing, basic maintenance, and heavy damage repair. In the REPAIR Lab, students receive training to perform specialized tasks that ensures the Library's physical materials are continuously usable by our entire campus community to support teaching, research, intellectual, and scholarly needs. Students learn in-house processing and physical item repair as well as lifelong skills for academic and career success such as patience, precision, discipline, logic, workflow assessment, and time management in their performance of this indispensable work that supports the University Library's mission and the University's strategic plan.

Faculty Instructor(s): Anan Brinna Pam ( Email)
College/Division: Library
Department: Collections, Acquisitions, and Resource Discovery Services (CARDS)

This course focuses on the theory and practice of delivering historical content to public audiences. All projects in HST 3391/3391S include both original research published in a physical or digital form, such as a digital exhibit or the creation of an archive, and are created as a specific product to fulfill an identified need, often that of a community partner. Students work closely with the faculty member throughout the semester to design, research, and create materials that meet the needs of both course pedagogy and our community partners.

Faculty Instructor(s): Wallis Eileen ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: History

The College of Business Administration s Singelyn Center for Innovative Analytics is pleased to host this annual opportunity to work on a project in partnership with the City of Pomona. This project is a semester-long elective course (BUS 4990), applying data analytics to the real estate industry. Throughout the semester, a team of students analyzes data on a wide range of challenges facing the residents of Pomona, including homelessness, housing insecurity, rental affordability, and evictions. Students evaluate different policies adopted by the City of Pomona and proposed by community stakeholders to combat these challenges. Students report their findings to help the City improve the living experiences of its residents and the economic vitality of the region.

Faculty Instructor(s): Orlando Anthony ( Email)
College/Division: College of Business Administration
Department: Finance, Real Estate, & Law / Technology and Operations Management

Through examination of trash in our local environment this class will include guidance and critiquing of student work in the analysis and evaluation of geographical characteristics of the natural environment and its human use. Includes field mapping, systematic and random sampling of spatial phenomena, and environmental impact reporting.

Faculty Instructor(s): Conway-Gomez Kristen ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Geography & Anthropology

Students will be guided through the process of creating an in-depth supervised research project on a historical topic using digital primary and secondary sources and incorporating digital media in their finished project. The specific theme of the class will vary by semester. Students will acquire new digital skills (ranging from researching in digital archives to map-making, and website construction to audio and video recording). Students will learn how these skills can enhance the research process as well as the presentation or dissemination of scholarship.

Faculty Instructor(s): Hill Rachael ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: History

Students work collaboratively across multiple disciplines within the theatre (Acting, Designing, Directing, Managing, etc.) to cultivate and execute a theatrical production

Faculty Instructor(s): Newman Brian ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Theatre & New Dance

Students choreographers work intensively with student dancers to develop original dance pieces. Pieces express student choreographers' individual artistic impulses, and may address a range of personal or social themes, may be multi-disciplinary, including integrated media, and require students to work rigorously and collaboratively towards a shared goal, with mentorship and critique from the course instructor. Developed pieces are presented at the annual Spring Dance concert with choreographers working with professional and student designers and production teams to fully produce their work on stage for a live audience. Some pieces may also be selected for presentation at the American College Dance Festival, where they receive professional feedback.

Faculty Instructor(s): Krainin Sarah ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Theatre & New Dance

In the course "AMM 1090 Race and Ethnicity in Fashion: Building Creative Pathways for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion," students embark on a transformative journey that explores the intersection of fashion and social movements led by historically marginalized groups in the US. Through in-depth mentorship with BIPOC fashion designers, students develop a deep understanding of culturally responsive design, empathy, and critical thinking. They engage in antiracism training using virtual reality and immerse in critical readings on marginalized communities' contributions to fashion and social justice. These activities, which include reflective journaling, case studies, and cross-disciplinary discussions, are designed to challenge their assumptions and inspire innovative solutions that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of fashion. Students collaborate across disciplines to propose a fashion capsule collection inspired by their mentorship experiences, promoting inclusivity and respect for diverse cultures. The course provides students with the means to promote and champion diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Faculty Instructor(s): Cordoba Arroyo Cindy ( Email)
College/Division: Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture
Department: Apparel Merchandising and Management

Watershed restoration is the science of enhancing a watershed s natural ability to recover from human-induced disturbance. Restoration strategies integrate basic concepts of hydrology, sedimentology, geomorphology, and ecology in an effort to reverse degraded water quality and watershed function. These efforts have been embraced by many communities, government agencies and academic institutions as an important step toward mitigating environmental degradation of watersheds and water supplies. This course explores the physical processes of watersheds and stream corridors through lectures, field trips and case study discussions. Students engage in hands-on fieldwork and address current watershed problems at local field sites through a required Stream Team Restoration Project. This interdisciplinary course is appropriate for undergraduate or graduate students with career interests that include natural sciences, ecology, environmental design, civil engineering, urban planning, and geography.

Faculty Instructor(s): Marshall Jeff ( Email)
College/Division: College of Environmental Design
Department: Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies

The Field Biology course is typically offered each spring semester. The class meets weekly on campus during the semester and students go on a approx. 9 day field trip over spring break (typically to Hawaii or Panama) where they get experience conducting field research. During the first part of the semester on campus students learn to identify the taxa (~75 species) they will see, and read and discuss many scientific papers that describe relevant ecological concepts, behavioral ecology, and resource management issues for the field trip location. During the initial days of the field trip students make observations, and learn field data collection methods, typically while snorkeling, and brainstorm ideas for projects. Then they form small groups and refine an ecology project idea of their choice and the sampling design for how they ll collect data. They then collect the data, typically while snorkeling, during the last few days of the field trip. Upon returning to campus after spring break, students conduct statistical analysis of their data using R, create data visualizations, and develop their posters. The results of their project are then presented as posters at the annual College of Science Research Symposium.

Faculty Instructor(s): Claisse Jeremy ( Email)
College/Division: College of Science
Department: Biological Sciences

NTR3450A is an activity class for Nutrition Education and Counseling which is DPD class for dietetic major and follow ACEND criteria. Students in this class learn to be nutrition educator and counselor in most innovative and practical ways. For Nutrition Education we collaborate with campus partners and create opportunities to students to provide nutrition education to real public as campus wide workshop in collaboration with Bronco Wellness Center, Discovery farm and Pumpkin Fest. Students create lesson plan after conducting through need assessment of target population and design handout, activities to keep education engaging to target population. As class move towards counseling, students conduct one on one counseling and learn to write ADIME notes. This course prepare students to be ready to be nutrition educator and counselor in real world. Glimpses of student work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga8qIm_LasA

Faculty Instructor(s): Sangeeta Shrivastava ( Email)
College/Division: Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture
Department: Nutrition and Food Science

The Poly X project offers students a unique opportunity to collaborate with peers in crafting an art piece that embodies the ethical insights drawn from Heather McGhee s The Sum of Us and elucidate how these insights resonate with their personal ethical frameworks. In partnership with the Maker Studio, students will utilize tools like 3D printers, laser cutters, sewing machines, letterpresses, or vinyl cutters to amplify their capacity for creative expression and teamwork. Comprehensive training sessions and workshops will be provided throughout the semester. Through active engagement with the project, students will make connections between theoretical lessons and their individual talents, honing problem-solving abilities as they collaboratively navigate challenges. Furthermore, they will articulate the value of art as a means of enhancing, enriching, and redefining the human experience and our ways of seeing the world.

Faculty Instructor(s): Hwang Hyeryung ( Email)
College/Division: College of Education and Integrative Studies
Department: Interdisciplinary General Education (IGE) Program, Department of Liberal Studies

The PADI Divemaster professional certification course is a semester-long course offered through the ASI Scuba Dive Center that enables individuals to become leaders who inspire and guide divers. Under the expert guidance and intense mentorship of a seasoned PADI Instructor, participants advance their diving knowledge and supervision skills, allowing them to become exemplary role models who guide the next generation of new divers.

Faculty Instructor(s): Hayes Douglas ( Email)
College/Division: Douglas A. Hayes
Department: ASI Scuba Dive Center

Through PLT-3020, Technology innovations in plant science, instructor Dr. Eshwar Ravishankar aims to cover the use of technology pertaining to 21st century agriculture. This course aims to focus on creating a learning environment that adheres to Cal Poly Pomona’s principle of ‘learn by doing’ with an emphasis on developing a multidisciplinary PolyX learning experience with an emphasis on engineering, agriculture and supply chain management. Practical components for this class cover developing crop and environment sensors using raspberry pi microcontrollers. Variable flow automated irrigation, pesticide systems, GIS technologies, and data collection through non-invasive techniques for precision agriculture will also be demonstrated. Microinternships are an active component of this class with students engaging in fabricating and building indoor growing environment and various components.

Faculty Instructor(s): Eshwar Ravishankar ( Email)
College/Division: Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture
Department: Plant Science

ECS 2100/A is an introductory course for CPP students in early childhood education (ECE), where they complete 60 hours of practicum in early learning or elementary school settings. The course emphasizes mentorship and supports students in designing creative, engaging activities for children under eight. Students develop lesson plans that promote discovery, critical thinking, and problem-solving, integrating multiple subjects and educational technology. The course focuses on diversity, inclusion, and anti-racist practices, preparing students to work with children from diverse backgrounds. Collaboration with mentor teachers and regular self-reflection helps students grow as effective, equitable educators in early childhood education.

Faculty Instructor(s): Navarro-Cruz Giselle ( Email)
College/Division: College of Education and Integrative Studies
Department: Early Childhood Studies

ECS 4100/A is a senior capstone course for CPP students in early childhood education, where they complete 60 hours of hands-on student teaching. Students are mentored by teacher, faculty, and peer mentors, receiving guidance in lesson planning, classroom dynamics, and family communication. They design two lesson plans promoting creativity, discovery, and innovation, incorporating diverse knowledge and using educational technology. Students focus on supporting multilingual and multicultural children and practice anti-racist, inclusive teaching. They collaborate with mentor teachers and peers, engaging in critical reflection through weekly journals and a final comprehensive reflection, preparing them for diverse challenges in early childhood education.

Faculty Instructor(s): Navarro-Cruz Giselle ( Email)
College/Division: College of Education and Integrative Studies
Department: Early Childhood Studies

The Kellogg Honors College is Cal Poly Pomona's honors program. We are a community of scholars who take honors GE courses, conduct research, and do community service. Graduates who complete our program receive special recognition on their transcript.

Faculty Instructor(s): Garcia-Des Lauriers Claudia ( Email)
College/Division: University-wide/Academic Affairs
Department: Academic Innovation

Grounded in best practices and academic research showing that undergraduate research boosts student success, persistence, and graduation rates, the Senior Capstone at Cal Poly Pomona reflects the university's "learn by doing" philosophy. This program inspires graduating political science students to undertake original research projects, fostering hands-on learning and academic achievement.

Faculty Instructor(s): Guerrero Mario ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Political Science

Maximizing Engineering Potential — Women in Science and Engineering (MEP-WiSE) is a comprehensive support program designed to advance diversity and excellence in the STEM fields at the polytechnic level. The program applies an intrusive approach to student success, beginning with frequent monitoring and tracking prior to the student’s first semester; it continues throughout the student’s academic journey via a cascade of interventions. Through a multi-layered approach, students receive support from peer mentors, industry professionals, and program staff while engaging in hands-on engineering challenges, professional development workshops, and collaborative learning experiences. The program serves students across three colleges: College of Engineering, College of Science, and Huntley College of Agriculture. It collaborates with four professional organizations: American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), and Society of Women Engineers (SWE) for outreach and recruitment events. Key components of MEP-WiSE include a summer residential program, a parent program, mandatory tutoring, technology-assisted supplemental instruction (TASI), essential skills workshops, career networking events―designed to help all students thrive in the STEM fields.

Faculty Instructor(s): Pham Phuong ( Email)
College/Division: College of Engineering
Department: Maximizing Engineering Potential – Women in Science and Engineering

In the spirit of Cal Poly Pomona’s “learn-by-doing” philosophy, this course offers students the unique chance to not only explore key event planning concepts and theories but also gain real-world experience. From budgeting and fundraising to operations, scheduling, program management, and hospitality, students gain hands-on expertise across all aspects of event execution. Each semester, students take the lead in planning, designing, and executing a large-scale, on-campus event—putting their knowledge into action. This one-of-a-kind experience equips students with the skills needed for successful careers in public relations, communications, multimedia journalism, hospitality, and beyond.

Faculty Instructor(s): Smith Andrea ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Communication

The Legal Emopowerment and Advocacy Program (LEAP) is a program that will traing student leaders to become peer advocates for undocumented students, staff, and faculty. LEAP will include sessions on immigration policy, advocacy skills, and how to access and utilize legal resources effectively. Peer advocates will also organize community events and workshops to raise awereness and provide support.

Faculty Instructor(s): Castro Areli ( Email)
College/Division: Student Affairs
Department: Support and Equity Program - Undocumented Students Services

The PolyTransfer Summer Transition Program is specifically designed for newly admitted CPP transfer students. Students who participate in this program will become familiar with CPP tools, resources, and programs and will cultivate a sense of belonging and community by connecting them with faculty and staff members. Students will get an opportunity to learn more about what to expect as a transfer student at Cal Poly Pomona and to connect with fellow transfer students. Students will also participate in creating and developing a PolyX Project.

Faculty Instructor(s): Seyed Atiana ( Email)
College/Division: University-wide/Academic Affairs
Department: Office of Student Success- PolyTransfer

This class is designed for first-year students in the M.S. Program in Psychology who are completing their pre-practicum field placement at Pomona Unified School District (PUSD). Specifically, the goal of this course is to provide additional content and group supervision that will assist students in navigating their pre-practicum experience. As such, this course will present an introduction to school-based mental health and content related to the provision of services within a school setting. Exposure to evidence-based programs and skills may also continue to occur throughout classroom discussions and activities to strengthen student’s clinical skills.

Faculty Instructor(s): Pumaccahua Tatiana ( Email)
College/Division: College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
Department: Psychology

Students in MAT 3060 will explore the integration of generative AI (genAI) in mathematical learning to enhance critical thinking and collaboration. Through AI-driven problem-solving, they will engage in group assignments, evaluate AI-generated solutions, develop rubrics, and provide peer feedback. Mentorship will include AI-integrated task guidance and collaborative discussions to foster deeper analytical thinking. This project promotes interdisciplinary engagement and prepares students, including future educators, to effectively incorporate genAI into STEM learning.

Faculty Instructor(s): Yoon Hyunkyoung ( Email)
College/Division: College of Science
Department: Department of Mathematics and Statistics

In this highly experiential PolyX course, students engage in real-world dispute resolution through negotiation, mediation, and arbitration exercises. Students analyze international business conflicts, including those arising from foreign direct investment (FDI) and multilateral treaties, and work collaboratively to develop practical, stakeholder-driven solutions. Through simulations, case studies, and interdisciplinary teamwork, students gain hands-on experience in cross-border dispute settlement, preparing them for careers in law, business, and global governance. Opportunities for dissemination include moot court competitions, publications, industry engagement, and campus research showcases.

Faculty Instructor(s): Shang Carrie ( Email)
College/Division: College of Business Administration
Department: Finance Real Estate and Law

The LEAD Studio is a new branding of the MLA culminating Experience starting in Fall 2024, showcasing a perfect example of the PolyX model. It involves students in discovering new knowledge, methods, and practice, addressing emerging disciplinary subjects such as evidence-based design, geodesign, climate change mitigation and adaptation, environmental justice, etc. It emphasizes strong collaboration among faculty, students, professional networks, and public agencies, regularly involving communities, especially diverse, disadvantaged, and tribal communities and providing them with technical assistance. Throughout the PolyX experience, faculty advisors provide intense mentorships to students working in project teams to ensure excellent learning outcomes.

Faculty Instructor(s): Li Weimin ( Email)
College/Division: College of Environmental Design
Department: Landscape Architecture

An immersive, project-based course where hospitality management students work in teams to develop and refine real-world business proposals. Through hands-on activities like location analysis, menu and space planning, marketing, and financial forecasting, students gain practical insights into hospitality entrepreneurship. The course features individualized mentorship and engagement with industry professionals through guest lectures and feedback sessions.

Faculty Instructor(s): Ge Li ( Email)
College/Division: Collins College of Hosptiality Management
Department: Academic Affairs