Introduction to Service in Multicultural Communities – Section 1: Men’s Issues
Monday/Wednesday 8:00 – 10:00 Building 46, Room 103 E-mail: seth_pollack@csumb.edu Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 10:00 – 11:00 (I welcome the opportunity to meet with you individually to discuss the course readings, your work in the community, or any other relevant/irrelevant topic that might be on your mind. Feel free to e-mail or call me for an appointment.) COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION (CP) ULR LEARNING OUTCOMES The purpose of the CP ULR is to foster the development of self-reflective, culturally aware and responsive community participants through reciprocal service and learning. Students who fulfill the CP ULR by receiving a grade of “C”…
Introduction to Service, Citizenship, and Community
Introduction to Service, Citizenship, and Community General Studies 137 Professor Meta Mendel-Reyes, Spring 2001 Tuesday 6-8 pm, Bruce Building Classroom 4 hours community service placement, plus class project. Introduction, Objectives, Texts. Format and Assignments, Syllabus Introduction At the turn of the 21st century, we see a resurgence of community service, a decline in political participation, and the persistence of the urgent social problems that both seek to address. For example, a recent survey conducted by Harvard University s Kennedy School of Government reported that 60% of college students polled said that they were currently involved in community service. Yet only…
Service Learning II & III
Departmental goals of Service Learning at Waynesburg College: The goal of Service Learning is to provide a laboratory in which learning experiences address human and community needs and provides the necessary time for reflection on those experiences. Service opportunities are structured to promote student learning and development. Desired learning outcomes include: acquiring a sense of civic and social responsibility, gaining exposure to cultural and socioeconomic differences, applying classroom learning and learning new skills. No more than four credits of service learning will be applied toward the baccalaureate degree. Service-Learning II Catalogue course description: Students will complete the requirements for SLR…
“Making Connections”: A Service Learning Liberal Arts Capstone Course
This multidisciplinary capstone course is designed to be a culminating experience for a liberal arts education. Students from a range of majors will work, in groups, on a community service project. They will explore connections among their various disciplines and between their liberal arts college experience and issues in the off-campus community. The large field work component will be carried out as part of Goucher’s partnership with the HARBEL Community Organization in northeast Baltimore City. Focus of the project for spring ’98 will involve developing proposals for the possible rehabilitation of the historic Arcade Theatre in Hamilton so that it…
Learning and Serving in the Community
Course Description Serving and Learning in Community is designed to promote experiential learning for Rivier students while advancing the College’s mission of social justice through service-learning. Students enrolled in SL 100 will be oriented to the concept of service-learning through participation in a semester -long service project and bi-weekly seminar. Students will conduct a community needs assessment, plan and implement a service project to meet a community need, and will critically reflect on these experiences through in-class discussion and journaling. A final portfolio will showcase their learning over the course of the semester. Required Texts and Readings Coles, The Call…
Introduction to Service in Multicultural Communities – Section 2: Youth Literacy and America Reads
Community Participation University Learning Requirement (CP) Successful college graduates posses skills and knowledge in many areas. Among these include collaboration, leadership, active citizenship, multicultural understanding, reflective thinking, critical analysis, and the ability to be a change agent in their community. The ULR in Community Participation (CP) is designed to foster the development of self reflective, culturally aware and responsive community participants through reciprocal service and learning. Successful completion of SL200 with a grade of C or better fulfills this requirement. Students acquire competencies in Community Participation through reflecting on an ongoing, service experience (minimum of 30 hours/semester) with and requested…
Community Service
This course is designed for students who are interested in learning more about different aspects of Community Service. One major focus of the course is to examine how community empowerment brings about organizational changes. Students will learn about the resources available to people for revitalizing their communities. Special emphasis will be given to the understanding of values of diversity and ethics in community services. A major focus of the course is to examine how nonprofit human service organizations develop the processes and structures of community planning and utilize volunteers. Students will have the opportunity to examine projects in community service…
Public Service, Community Organizing, and Social Change
Through service-learning, this seminar explores the experience of democratic citizenship in a multicultural society, focusing on the role of the activist in public service, community organizing, and social change. Internships in Philadelphia or Chester (5 hours/week), dialogue with local activists, and popular education pedagogy enrich reflection upon and analysis of other topics, including: individual and community empowerment; public policy at the grassroots; urban politics; communication and coalition-building across differences of race, gender, class; leadership and organizing skills development. In the United States near the end of the 20th century, poverty, racism, homelessness, inadequate education, lack of access to health care,…
Service Learning: Modern Dance
Service-Learning: Modern Dance is a course designed specifically to offer the Modern Dance Major a practical experience in community service. The class, which meets once a week for 90 minutes, is an elective open to sophomores, juniors, or seniors (as to second year graduate students) in Modern. Course credit is variable (1-3 credit hours depending on the number of hours students devote to their service activity. The course will require each student to complete a brief community assessment and select an organization or area that interests them. Students will then propose a project and meet with the appropriate representatives to…
Spanish – Service-learning
SPRING 2000Office: 223 Rogers-StoutHours: MWF 11:30-12:30, TR2:30-3;30Required Text: Introduction to Spanish Translation by Jack Child Course Description and Background: This is the first Service-Learning course to be offered in the Department of Foreign Languages. This course has been developed through an interdisciplinary team effort by faculty and students ETSU and as an essential component of & Kellogg III Expanding Community Partnerships Project entitled: Language and Culture Resource Center/Bilingual Media. The goal of the project is to assist in the integration of Hispanics into the predominant community, specifically in Unicoi county, one of the counties targeted by the Kellogg III grant….
Applied Watershed Systems Restoration – Service Learning
Watershed Restoration in the Schools and CommunityWinter/Spring 2000 Semester Students with disabilities who may need accommodations please see me as soon as possible during office hours or by appointment. ESSP/SL MLO #11: Students must be able to share the relevance and importance of science with the culturally, linguistically, technologically, and economically diverse populations of our regional, national, and global communities. Students must be able to combine their ESSP discipline based knowledge with community experiences resulting in a new knowledge brought about by attention to the issues of social responsibility, justice, diversity, and compassion. Core Course Questions:1. How does participation in…
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