Core Curriculum Guide: Values Areas
Promoting Civic Engagement or Leadership
Learning Outcome: Promote leadership development and civic engagement.
A significant element of Loyola's Jesuit Catholic heritage is a focus on developing within each student the capacity for leadership expressed in service to others. Consistent with that heritage, the curriculum should provide students, regardless of major, with the knowledge, skills, and abilities that will prepare them to become ethical and innovative members of the workforce; to assume leadership roles in their chosen organizations; and to make a positive difference in the work place and their communities through civic engagement.
Competencies: By way of example, Loyola graduates should be able to:
- Identify models of leadership and civic engagement, both current and historical.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the ethical responsibilities of leadership and its relationship to the Jesuit tradition.
- Apply analytical and reflective tools to assess situations and recognize leadership possibilities and opportunities for civic engagement.
- Articulate a vision that can empower and inspire others.
- Demonstrate effective team-building skills.
- Evaluate the leadership style of self and others.
- Engage in the community through activities effecting positive change in society and the environment.
Civic Engagement and Leadership Courses
| Refugee Resettlement | ANTH 310 |
| Business Internship | BSAD 351 |
| In this course, students will be challenged to analyze the theory and practices from the world of work which impact the ethics of leading, interpersonal and organizational dynamics, and competent work place contributions required for success in the modern business world. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Language and Gender | CUMN 254 |
| Advanced Reporting | CMUN 315 |
| This course is designed for more experienced journalism students to utilize their reporting and writing skills by engaging in the community and exploring social justice issues. Students will learn how to write with flair, precision and clarity, they also will spend time learning how to conduct research and interviews. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Video Documentary | CMUN 339 |
| Public Service Communication | CMUN 352 |
| This course focuses on public relations and advertising for issue-related campaigns and public service communication. This includes community relations, service programs, dialogue, advocacy, lobbying, fundraising, special events, and alliances and partnerships between business and nonprofit organizations. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Field Practicum | CRMJ 390 |
| This junior- or senior-level, one semester course provides students with a real-world experience working as an intern in a criminal justice agency or office. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Emergency Medical Technican-Basic | HEM 100 |
| History Internship | HIST 398 |
| This course provides students with valuable professional experience as an intern in public and private institutions engaged in history-related projects. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Health Care Leadership and Policy | HSM 340 |
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This course introduces the student to theoretical models for analyzing health policy and the forces which shape health care policy in the U.S. Values and preferences for making social choices within a pluralistic society are considered. Leadership theories will be explored and applied to healthcare policy and advocacy. |
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| International Studies Internship | INTS 370 |
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This course permits students to gain professional experience in non-profit organizations, government agencies and private companies that deal with international issues. |
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| Math for Elementary Teachers I | MATH 147/CIEP 104 |
| This is the first of a two course sequence which provides the fundamental knowledge base for teaching elementary school mathematics. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Microenterprise Consulting | MGMT 335 |
| This is a service-learning course for students majoring in business. This course is an introduction to the concept of microenterprise as an economic development strategy, the craft and ethics of consulting, building a business plan, and the field of microfinance. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Human Heredity | NTSC 108 |
| This course is a comprehensive overview of the field of human heredity with an emphasis on genetic disorders. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Environmental Sustainability | ENVS 283 |
| This course examines the area of environmental science relative to the impact that humans as consumers have on the environment and how these interactions affect the probability of establishing sustainability for human and non-human inhabitants of planet Earth. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Energy and the Environment | ENVS 273 |
| This course will introduce the basic knowledge that has been developed as well as the underlying processes and laws that govern the nature of energy and its interactions.
A primary goal of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to assess the current state of global energy usage, its impact on society and the environment and possible avenues for addressing these impacts. |
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| Health Care Ethics - Civic Engagement | PHIL 164 |
| This course studies philosophical ethics as practiced in the health care setting. It includes a service learning experience and satisfies the civic engagement core requirement. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Aesthetics - Civic Engagement | PHIL 167 |
| The course explores philosophical issues in aesthetics like the nature of art and beauty through, in part, service-learning in retirement communities and theaters, as examples. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Ethics and Education | PHIL 186 |
| This course examines philosophical ethics as it informs and guides the activity of teaching. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Environmental Ethics | PHIL 187 |
| The course will look at various philosophical and ethical views on the relationship between humans and the natural world. Topics may include: pollution, animal rights, and natural resources.
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| Civic Engagement: Topics in Philosophy of Human Nature: Aesthetics | PHIL 344 |
| The course explores at an advanced level the relation of human nature and aesthetics through, in part, service-learning in retirement communities and theaters, as examples.
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| Political Science Internship | PLSC 370 |
| This course allows students to earn course credit toward the major or minor in Political Science while gaining valuable professional experience as an intern in governmental or private (profit and non-profit) institutions serving the public. | Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Internship in Human Services | PSYC 390 |
| This course requires students to complete at least 100 clock hours of work on site at an organization or community agency that provides a human service. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Internship in Applied Psychology | PSYC 392 |
| This internship in applied psychology presents an opportunity for students to learn about work life from first hand experience, to interpret workplace events through a psychological perspective, and to employ their unique psychological knowledge and skills toward solving practical problems and meeting the needs of their internship site. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Russian and Russians in the World | RUSS 290 |
| In this course you will continue to develop your skills of reading, listening, and oral communication in Russian through the study of authentic Russian language texts and videos, as well as by engaging in service learning experience in Russian speaking community organizations in the greater Chicago area. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Alternative Break Immersion | SOCL 127 |
| This service-learning course is open to any undergraduate participant in a domestic spring or summer ABI (Alternative Break Immersion) trip or a service trip with Greeks for a Good Cause. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Urban Semester Seminar | SOCL/PLSC 335 |
| This course allows students to explore urban issues, through texts, lectures and guest speakers, visits to community organizations and participation in collaborative research with community groups. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Social Work Practice II | SOWK 340 |
| Understanding and Developing Effective Mentoring Relationships for Youth Development | SOWK 361 |
| This course focuses on helping undergraduate students successfully learn about, implement, and reflect on the experience of developing meaningful mentoring relationships with young people in the larger urban Chicago community. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Theology and Interdisciplinary Studies: Human Rights in Latin America | THEO 157 |
| This courses engages students in both scholarly study and personal reflection on issues related to social responsibility, global citizenship, and personal calling to civic engagement and leadership in advocacy for human rights at both local and global levels. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Supervised Ministry | THEO 348 |
| This course engages students in an internship in a pastoral organization. Students gain valuable pastoral and leadership experience while interning for an organization. Students focus on a particular project or program of the sponsoring organization during the enrolled semester. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Play Direction | THTR 375 |
| The course requires the application of skills accumulated through the completion of the Theatre Major requirements to the multifaceted leadership role of the director in the theatrical process. Students will direct a monologue, select a play script for production, develop a production concept, stage a twenty-minute scene using student peers as actors, and develop a detailed directors promptbook. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Seminar in Community-based Service and Leadership | UNIV 290 |
| This course is a seminar course focusing on community-based service and leadership through service-learning. As a service-learning course, students will work a minimum of 40 hours over the semester at a non-profit organization, while reflecting on their service experience in the context of asset-based community development, civic engagement, social justice, leadership in the community, and service for the common good. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Seminar in Community-based Research and Leadership | UNIV 291 |
| This course is a seminar course focusing on community-based research and leadership through service-learning. As a service-learning course, students will work a minimum of 40 hours over the semester through direct service AND community-based research projects at a non-profit, community-based organization. Students will reflect on their service and community-based research experience in the context of asset-based community development, civic engagement, social justice, leadership in the community, and research as service for the common good. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| International Service Learning | UNIV 292 |
| Solutions to Environmental Problems (STEP) | UNIV 350 |
| STEP is an interdisciplinary and hands-on course in which students develop and implement practical solutions to pressing and complex environmental problems on campus and in the local community. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |
| Internship Seminar: Organizational Change and Community Leadership | UNIV 390 |
| This course is a seminar course focusing on organizational leadership and change through an internship experience with a non-profit organization, government agency, or business. As an internship course, students will work a minimum of 10 hours per week at an organization, for a total of 100 hours over the course of the semester. Students will reflect on their work experience in the context of organizational leadership theory, civic engagement, asset-based community development, and leadership in the community. | View syllabus Value: Civic Engagement & Leadership |