Service-Learning Courses at Loyola (Spring 2008)
Here is a partial list of service-learning courses, based on information shared with the Center for Experiential Learning by various academic departments. Links indicate that a course description follows.
Categorical lists and brief descriptions of many of Loyola's community partners can be found in the Take ACTION! Community Partner Resource Guide, a joint effort of CEL, University Ministry, and the Career Development Center.
For more information about a specific class or community partner, or to inform CEL about a new or existing service-learning opportunity, contact the Service-Learning Coordinator.
CIEP M60 Secondary Methods: Social Studies
CIEP 104-001/002 Math for Elementary Teachers I
CIEP 206-001/002 Children's Literature (dual listed as ENGL 206-001/002)
CIEP 229-003 Educational Psychology
CMAN 380-001 Community Health
CMUN 146-001 Community Radio Production
ENGL 393-01/02S Teaching English to Adults
HIST 391-022 Asian-American History
HSM 210-001 Introduction to Global Health
HSM 230-001 Health Care of Vulnerable Populations
INTS 292-005 Human Rights in Latin America (dual listed as THEO 180-005)
IPS 620-001 Diversity and Equity
MGMT 335-201 Micro-Enterprise Consulting
SOCL 121-002 Social Problems
SOCL 335-001 Urban Semester Seminar
SOWK 301-001 Social Work Methods I
SPAN 381-001 Contemporary Spanish-American Novel
STEP Biodiesel (Multiple cross-listings; see description below)
THEO 192-011 Moral Problems: Urban Issues
UNIV 290-001 Seminar in Community-based Service and Leadership
Featured Courses for Spring 2008
UNIV 290: Seminar in Community-Based Service and Leadership
Instructor: Dr. Patrick Green, Wednesday - 4:15 to 6:45 pm, Sullivan Center - Room 202
This seminar course focuses 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 of their choosing, approved by the Center for Experiential Learning, 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.
STEP Biodiesel
[Cross-listed as BIOL 395-002, CHEM 395-002, ESP 398-001, PLSC 300-007, SOCL 370-004]
(For more information, please contact Gina Lettiere at glettie@luc.edu, 773-508-8255.)
In this Solutions to Environmental Problems (STEP) course, students will cut waste and reduce emissions by turning waste vegetable oil from LUC cafeterias into low-emissions biodiesel fuel. This unique learning opportunity will integrate lecture, lab/practicum, and team project components. Students will work closely with an interdisciplinary team of faculty to set up a production facility, make biodiesel, and investigate scientific, social, political, and economic dimensions of alternative fuel adoption.
For the spring 2008 semester, Solutions to Environmental Problems (STEP): Biodiesel is listed as a Special Topics course in the following departments: Biology, Chemistry, Communication, Environmental Science/Studies, Political Science, and Sociology.
Participation in the three-credit course is by consent of instructors. A written description of your interest in the course and how it fits into your long-term goals will be required.
ENGL 393 [cross-listed as HON 290/291]: Teaching Literacy to Adults
(For more information, please contact Jacqueline Heckman at jheckma@luc.edu.)
Tutor as a volunteer or earn 1, 2, or 3 hours of credit as an English or Honors intern and help the members of the Loyola Rogers Park community improve English skills.
The Loyola Community Literacy Center, an outreach project to the Rogers Park community, is in its sixteenth year as a priority service-learning project of the English Department and the College of Arts and Sciences. The Center is located at 6576 N. Sheridan Road and is open Monday through Thursday evenings from 7 - 9:30 PM during the fall and spring semesters. Most of the learners who come to the Center are recent immigrants who are learning English, but native speakers who wish to improve their reading and writing skills are also welcome. While the majority of tutors are Loyola students who can earn from one to three credit hours for tutoring, anyone interested in tutoring is most welcome to volunteer without registering for the course.
No previous tutoring experience is necessary. Training will be offered at an orientation session that will be offered on three evenings from 7-10:00 PM: Tuesday, January 22, Wednesday, January 23, or Thursday January 24. Attendance at one evening session is required for all tutors new to the Center. The Center opens for tutoring on Monday, January 28.
See the Literacy Center website at http://www.luc.edu/literacy/index.html for more information and also for the requirements of the course. Supporting the Literacy Center is an excellent service project. Tutors have not only gained invaluable experience and forged new friendships but have also been able to live the Loyola mission of working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity.
The following courses are being offered in conjunction with the immersion program during spring semester 2008. Only students participating in the ABI program are able to enroll in these courses. The courses are part of an important initiative to make academic linkages with the program, toward a deepening of intellectual inquiry and informed activism through immersion experiences.
SOCL 121-002: Social Problems
Instructor: Marilyn Krogh (Sociology) and University Ministry Staff, MWF 12:35-1:25 PM
This Social Problems course offering in the 2008 spring semester will complement domestic immersions during spring break. All students enrolled in this course will also be participating in a domestic ABI. The course will integrate education and reflection through sociological understandings of poor communities in both urban and rural America, leading to informed action. The first half of the course will be a preparation for the immersion trip, and the second half of the course will debrief and extend learning based on the experience of direct service and cultural immersion. The course meets core requirements in social and cultural knowledge and the diversity value. Students may enroll for the course after being selected for one of the spring break or summer domestic immersions. Permission of instructor is required when registering.
To be cross-listed with Peace Studies.
THEO 180-005 [Cross-listed as INTS 292-005]: Human Rights in Latin America
Instructors: John Neafsey (Theology) & Patrick Eccles (University Ministry), TuTh 10-11:15 AM
Using a multi-disciplinary approach to prepare students for immersion in the realities of Latin America, this course will be offered in conjunction with the above immersions sponsored by University Ministry. Through lecture and interdisciplinary readings, film and guest lectures, we will explore ongoing struggles for human rights in Latin America from a variety of perspectives, including liberation theology, history, politics, psychology, literature and culture. Special attention will be given to the human rights of children and rights of migrants. We will briefly examine the situation and history of military violence, impunity, use of torture and current conditions of violence against women. In addition, we will study social movements for economic and ecological justice and their calls for economic, social and cultural rights in the region. The course meets core requirements in theological and religious studies; critical thinking and dispositions skills, and understanding spirituality or faith in action in the world values. Students may enroll for the course after being selected for one of the four international immersions. Permission of instructor is required when registering.