Student Projects

Students explore the culture of food waste. Just when does food go bad? How much waste are we generating that could be used to sustain our communities?

This documentary affirms peoples' life choices regarding love, gender, and sexuality. Students from the Woolman Semester interview...

A quick tour of issues surrounding our oil-centric society.

How do religions oppress and empower women?

What is homelessness, and how do individuals and families become homeless? With interviews from formerly homeless men and women as well as advocates, this doc is interview-rich and focuses on services available.

This Woolman Doc focuses on fear and sensationalism in the media, with an emphasis on the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and corporate media conglomeration.

This Woolman Doc explores hunger, malnutrition, food waste and gleaning in the Sacramento area.

If you've been tricked into thinking that affordable sustainability is an oxymoron, then you've picked up the right book. I'm here to tell you that it is very very possible to shop sustainably on a budget. Despite what you may think, you don't have to compromise your values to maintain your wallet or vice versa. With a bit more intentionality in shopping, especially in shopping for food, you can easily stretch your dollar to reach its most sustainable capacity.

Woolman Semester Students look at the hard realities of coming to the US as a refugee. They interview refugees about their experiences, as well as people who are working to help.

Woolman Semester students investigate California's overwhelmed prison system, the nation's most expensive at $9 billion per year, and the highest per-capita with 1 of every 31 Californians in the prison system. Is this system spiraling out of control? Is it destroying more lives than it protects? Hear from ex-inmates, community leaders and others in this jail documentary by our students.

Woolman Semester students search near and... well, near, for healthy, sustainable eating from csa farms to the cows in the back yard. Find out what it means to be a locavore, and why it isn't always easy to stick to the 100-mile diet.

Woolman Semester students look at the causes, repercussions, and possible alternatives to a broken prison system in crisis, interviewing prisoners, prison guards, crime victims, and visionaries who see a way out of this mess.

Join Woolman Semester students on both sides of the US Mexico border fence. Although every year the border wall gets bigger, higher, and more militarized, immigrants desperate for better lives for their families continue to risk the crossing. Hear from a border patrol guard, a border park ranger, and a mother who was just deported to Mexico while her kids were at school in the US.

Woolman Semester students interview Utah Phillips on homelessness (along with other founders of Hospitality House). Hear the story behind this amazing asset to Nevada County, CA.