CLN 240 — Performance in Clinical and Care Settings

Sample syllabus of record · Fall 2026 · Section 01 · 3 credit hours · Filed August 14, 2026

Course information

Course

CLN 240 — Performance in Clinical and Care Settings (3 cr.)

Division

Division of Performance and Guest Services

Program

A.A.S. — Applied Clowning

Prerequisite

CLN 210.

Meetings

Lecture: Tuesday, 1:00–2:50 p.m., room as listed in DroverNet

Studio: Thursday, 1:00–2:50 p.m., Black Box

Contact hours

30 lecture hours and 30 studio hours (2 lecture credits, 1 laboratory credit).

Instructor

Instructor

Winifred Casp, Professor, Applied Clowning

Office

Wing D, Room D-110 · ext. 2814

Office hours

Tuesday, 3:00–4:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 10:00–11:00 a.m.; and by appointment.

Messages to the instructor are sent from the student’s College e-mail account and are answered within two business days.

Course description

Performance technique for hospital, long-term care, and clinical settings: the visitation standards of the Association of Hospital Clown Programs, hand hygiene and infection-control practice, consent and the room a performer may not enter, and the adjustment of a bit to a bedside.

Course outcomes

On completion of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Apply the visitation standards of the Association of Hospital Clown Programs to the planning and conduct of a visit.
2. Perform hand hygiene to the standard required for entry to a patient or resident room, and clean and disinfect props between uses.
3. Recognize posted transmission-based precautions and the other conditions under which a performer does not enter a room.
4. Obtain consent for a visit from the patient or resident, and from a parent, guardian, or staff member where required, and accept a refusal without further approach.
5. Adjust the scale, volume, proximity, and duration of a bit to a bedside and to the equipment in the room.
6. Maintain the confidentiality of patients and residents during and after a visit.

Required materials

• The makeup and prop kit retained from CLN 115.
• Props used in bedside exercises are non-porous and can be wiped with a hospital disinfectant without damage. Latex balloons and latex props are not used in this course.
• The visitation standards of the Association of Hospital Clown Programs, distributed in Week 1.
• Course readings are distributed by the instructor. No textbook is required.

No course fee is charged. Program bench and kit charges are assessed to the program each semester under the Schedule of Charges (bench $340; kit $412; prop replacement at cost). See the Schedule of Charges. Bench and laboratory fees are not refundable after the second week of instruction.

Schedule

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Instruction in this course takes place on campus. No facility visit is made in this course. Facility requirements for CLN 265 are established by each facility and are not waived by the College; students are advised to begin them during this term. The schedule may be adjusted by the instructor; changes are announced in class and in DroverNet.

Assessment

The hand hygiene check-off must be passed before a student participates in bedside exercises. A student who has not passed it by the end of Week 4 meets with the instructor to arrange a further check-off.

Studio assessments are scored against the visitation standards. An entry to a room under posted precautions, or a continued approach after a refusal, is scored as a failure of that assessment regardless of other elements.

The adaptation portfolio comprises three bits from the student’s repertoire, each adapted for a bedside, with written notes describing each adjustment and the reason for it.

Final grades are assigned on the grading scale published in the Catalog of record.

Attendance

Attendance is required at every studio session. A missed studio is made up at a time arranged by the instructor. A student absent from the hand hygiene check-off completes it before the next studio session.

A student with a fever or a respiratory or gastrointestinal illness does not attend studio sessions involving partner contact and notifies the instructor before the session. The same practice is followed at clinical sites in CLN 265.

The College observes Labor Day and the Thanksgiving recess (November 25–27). Shop, barn, and clinical assignments may require attendance during recess periods where continuity of care or process requires it.

Withdrawal

The last day to withdraw without penalty is September 11. The last day to withdraw with a W is October 30. Withdrawal is processed by the Office of the Registrar and is not effected by ceasing to attend. Term dates are published in the Academic Calendar.

Accommodation

The College provides reasonable accommodation under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Accommodation is requested from Disability Services, Room A-134, ext. 2144, and not from the instructor. Accommodation is not retroactive; it begins when approved. Students are encouraged to request accommodation before the term begins, particularly in courses with shop, barn, clinical, or field components.

The instructor receives a letter stating the approved accommodations and does not receive the diagnosis, the documentation, or the reason. An instructor who believes an approved accommodation cannot be implemented in this course contacts the Coordinator and does not decline it to the student. Safety requirements are not waived; where an accommodation interacts with a safety requirement, the Coordinator works with Environmental Health and Safety to identify a compliant alternative.

A student who believes an accommodation was wrongly denied or improperly implemented may file with the Section 504/ADA Coordinator, Bernadette Ollsvig, Room A-118, ext. 2240.

Academic integrity

Work submitted in this course is the student’s own. Records, readings, and measurements are entered as made and are not completed from another student’s work or from memory after the session. Academic integrity is governed by the academic policies of the Catalog. A matter is referred to the Office of the Dean of Students under the Student Code of Conduct (Policy 5.30) where the Catalog so provides.

Artificial intelligence

For the use of generative artificial intelligence tools in this course, see the division’s determination. Questions about whether a particular use is permitted are directed to the instructor before the work is submitted.