English 393 and Honors 290 are restricted to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.  In addition to the orientation and the tutoring, these students meet twice a month at 5:45 p.m. for about 50-60 minutes for a total of 5 class meetings. These meetings give tutors a chance to ask questions, compare experiences, and talk about paper topics. We also have presentations of topics which are of interest and concern to the students. Those students taking the course for 3 credit hours and the Core Engaged Learning-Service Learning Internship requirement will have an additional 6th meeting.  These are self–managed courses. You have some flexibility in deciding which meeting you come to, because each meeting takes place twice.

Class meetings - Please see the Syllabus on this website or on Blackboard 

Note: All activities, including class meetings, take place at the Literacy Center, Dumbach Hall, Rm 06 (773-508-2330). Please note that the FIRST REQUIREMENT is the orientation session you attend if you have never tutored at the Literacy Center before. Please check the main page of the website for the orientation schedule. The five required meetings and the sixth Core meeting take place in the late afternoon before tutoring begins, with each meeting being offered on two separate days. You choose one of the two.  Core students taking the class for 3 credit hours have an additional meeting. If you have an evening class and cannot attend the required scheduled class meetings, please contact the instructor. The course is taught by Ms. Jacqueline Heckman, Director, LCLC. There will always be some students who will not be able to come on the days selected; in that case you are obliged to email and arrange another time to meet. If you miss a meeting, that is missing class and that will lower your grade (see the grading requirements on the syllabus).

Credit-hour requirements:

For 1 hour of credit you agree to:

1. Attend the orientation program if you are a learner new to the Center. Tutor one night each week for the semester and attend all 5:45 pm bimonthly class meetings. You agree to arrive before 7 p.m. one night each week and to tutor, to observe and report, or to undertake other volunteer duties for the evening as needed (filing, typing, sorting books, etc.) as requested by the managers. You agree to make up any evening of tutoring that you miss because of your absence.

2. Write all the papers outlined on the syllabus. Read and discuss the textbook as well as the assigned research articles.

For 2 hours of credit you agree to:

1. Attend the orientation program if you are a learner new to the Center. Tutor two nights each week for the semester and attend all 5:45 pm bimonthly class meetings. You agree to arrive before 7 p.m. two nights each week and to tutor, to observe and report, or to undertake other volunteer duties for the evening as needed (filing, typing, sorting books, etc.) as requested by the managers. You agree to make up any evening of tutoring that you miss because of your absence.

2. Write all the papers outlined on the syllabus. Read and discuss the textbook as well as the assigned research articles.

For 3 hours of credit and to satisfy the Core Engaged Learning-Service Learning Internship requirement, you agree to:

1. Attend the orientation program if you are a learner new to the Center. Tutor two nights each week for the semester and attend all 5:45 pm bimonthly class meetings. You agree to arrive before 7 p.m. two nights each week and to tutor, to observe and report, or to undertake other volunteer duties for the evening as needed (filing, typing, sorting books, etc.) as requested by the managers. You agree to make up any evening of tutoring that you miss because of your absence.

2. Write all the papers outlined on the syllabus.   Read and discuss the textbook as well as the assigned research articles.

3. Complete an additional reading assignment, a text chosen from the suggested course supplementary reading list or another text approved by the instructor beforehand on topics related to the work of the Center: second language acquisition, adult education, adult literacy, topics related to specific language skill areas (pronunciation, reading, writing, grammar). Prepare a 3 page review of the book, discussing how it relates to your experience at the Literacy Center and to your special interests. These will also be a required meeting in addition to the five required class meetings for Core students to discuss these readings in addition to the five required class meetings.

Tutoring Policies:  Our tutoring schedule is Monday through Thursday, 7-9:30 pm.  You are required to tutor one or two nights a week, depending on the number of credits for which you are registered.  If you are ill, you must phone the manager at 773-508-2330 to report that you will be absent or email the staff at locolice@gmail.com; you must make up the tutoring session at a later date. You may also report your absence via Facebook; instructions for doing so will be given on Blackboard.  If your regular learner is ill and notifies you, you must still come to the Center where you will be assigned to tutor a different learner, to perform some other task for the Center (filing, typing, etc.), or to observe another tutor-learner pair.

For additional information and a description of reading and writing assignment requirements, please see the course syllabus on this website.

Course Description

a. LCLC Internship in Adult Literacy: Teaching English to Adults (English 393)

The LCLC is officially connected to the curriculum of the Department of English and constitutes a major commitment to service learning in the Department. The LCLC sponsors an internship in adult literacy, English 393: Teaching English to Adults, for one, two, or three hours of credit. Interns tutor in the LCLC one or two nights (any two that they choose) each week and form the core of our tutoring staff (volunteers often prefer to tutor on one night only). The purpose of this internship is to offer students experience in teaching adults to read and write English in a program that combines tutoring adults at a literacy center with a program of reading and writing about the impact of adult literacy on the discipline of English linguistic and literary studies. For details on variable credit requirements, see the current syllabus posted on this site.

The internship is supervised by a member of the Department of English who meets regularly with the students who enroll in the course. The faculty member coordinates the students' experience at the tutoring center with the academic program of reading and writing and may also meet with the students privately each term. The internship balances direct experience in tutoring adults with research into such issues as the history of literacy programs; the nature of local, state, and national governmental support of them; the response of professional organizations in English, including the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) to literacy problems; and the efforts of colleges and universities to use literacy programs as means to bridge narrowly professional and wider social concerns. 

b. Honors Tutorial (Honors 290)

Students enrolled in Loyola's Honors Program may take a three–hour tutorial for honors credit (Honors 290).  The syllabus, assignments, and requirements are the same as those for students in English 393.  This course offers training and practical experience in tutoring adults in written and spoken English at the Loyola Community Literacy Center. Students tutor adult learners, some of whom are native English speakers preparing for the GED or improving their literacy skills. Other learners are immigrants or refugees whose skills in their native language range from their being highly educated professionals to being perhaps functionally illiterate, and who may know some English or no English. The Center is open M-Th evenings from 7-9:30. Students may only take the course for 3 credit hours. They must attend an orientation as well as bi-weekly class meetings and tutor two evenings a week. No previous tutoring experience is necessary. Students are required to keep and submit a weekly journal of their experiences, examine a textbook and journal articles concerned with literacy and adult education, write four papers throughout the semester, and prepare a final paper or project. An additional reading assignment is required for the Core requirement.

College of Arts & Sciences Statement on Academic Integrity

A basic mission of a university is to search for and to communicate the truth as it is honestly perceived. A genuine learning community cannot exist unless this demanding standard is a fundamental tenet of the intellectual life of the community. Students of Loyola University Chicago are expected to know, to respect, and to practice this standard of personal honesty.

Academic dishonesty can take several forms, including, but not limited to cheating, plagiarism, copying another student’s work, and submitting false documents. Academic cheating is a serious act that violates academic integrity. Cheating includes,

but is not limited to, such acts as

• Obtaining, distributing, or communicating examination materials prior to the scheduled examination without the consent of the teacher

• Providing information to another student during an examination

• Obtaining information from another student or any other person during an examination

• Using any material or equipment during an examination without consent of the instructor, or in a manner which is not authorized by the instructor

• Attempting to change answers after the examination has been submitted

• Unauthorized collaboration, or the use in whole or part of another student’s work, on homework, lab reports, programming assignments, and any other course work which is completed outside of the classroom

• Falsifying medical or other documents to petition for excused absences or extensions of deadlines

• Any other action that, by omission or commission, compromises the integrity of the academic evaluation process

Plagiarism is a serious form of violation of the standards of academic dishonesty. Plagiarism is the appropriation of ideas, language, work, or intellectual property of another, either by intent or by negligence, without sufficient public acknowledgement

and appropriate citation that the material is not one's own. It is true that every thought probably has been influenced to some degree by the thoughts and actions of others. Such influences can be thought of as affecting the ways we see things and express all thoughts. Plagiarism, however, involves the taking and use of specific words and ideas of others without proper acknowledgement of the sources, and includes the following:

• Submitting as one's own material copied from a published source, such as print, Internet, CD-ROM, audio, video, etc.

• Submitting as one's own another person's unpublished work or examination material

• Allowing another or paying another to write or research a paper for one's own benefit

• Purchasing, acquiring, and using for course credit a pre-written paper/

The above list is in no way intended to be exhaustive. Students should be guided by the principle that it is of utmost importance to give proper recognition to all sources. To do so is both an act of personal, professional courtesy and of intellectual honesty. Any failure to do so, whether by intent or by neglect, whether by omission or commission, is an act of plagiarism. A more detailed description of this issue can be found at http://luc.edu/english/writing.shtml#source .

In addition, a student may not submit the same paper or other work for credit in two or more classes without the expressed prior permission of all instructors. A student who submits the same work for credit in two or more classes without the expressed prior permission of all instructors will be judged guilty of academic dishonesty, and will be subject to sanctions described below. This applies even if the student is enrolled in the classes during different semesters. If a student plans to submit work with similar or overlapping content for credit in two or more classes, the student should consult with all instructors prior to submission of the work to make certain that such submission will not violate this standard.

Plagiarism or any other act of academic dishonesty will result minimally in the instructor’s assigning the grade of "F" for the assignment or examination. The instructor may impose a more severe sanction, including a grade of “F” in the course. All instances of academic dishonesty must be reported by the instructor to the chairperson of the department involved, and to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The chairperson may constitute a hearing board to consider the imposition of sanctions in addition to those imposed by the instructor, including a recommendation of expulsion, depending on the seriousness of the misconduct. In the case of multiple instances of academic dishonesty, the academic dean of the student's college may convene a hearing board.

Students have the right to appeal the decision of the hearing board to the academic dean of the college in which they are registered. The decision of the dean is final in all cases except expulsion. The sanction of expulsion for academic dishonesty may be imposed only by the Provost upon recommendation of a dean. Students have a right to appeal any finding of academic dishonesty against them. The procedure for such an appeal can be found at http://www.luc.edu/academics/catalog/undergrad/reg_academicgrievance.shtml .

The College of Arts and Sciences maintains a permanent record of all instances of academic dishonesty. The information in that record is confidential. However, students may be asked to sign a waiver which releases that student’s record of dishonesty as a part of the student’s application to a graduate or professional school, to a potential employer, to a bar association, or to similar organizations.

Approved by the CAS Council of Chairs & Program Directors on 9/17/07; Endorsed by the CAS Academic Council on 9/19/07