Information for Tutors
While the Loyola Community Literacy Center offers community adults an opportunity to improve their skills, it also gives student-tutors, alumni, and Loyola volunteers the chance to serve their community and to engage with their Jesuit education, "connecting the heart with the head" (MB). The Literacy Center is "such a salient reminder of how everyone is created in God’s image and has an inherent worth and dignity that cannot be defined by socio-economic status or race. It is so neat to realize our differences, not ignore them, and see how our world is enriched and made more like the Kingdom because of its diversity in humanity" (RR).
If you are interested in volunteering and have never tutored for us before, contact us at literacy@luc.edu for information on flash orientations or come to one of our regular orientations listed below.
If you are a Loyola second-semester freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior and have completed UCWR 110 (the only pre-requisite) and are interested in tutoring for credit in the fall or spring by enrolling in English 393 or Honors 290, please follow the link to "Tutoring" and then the link to "Course Credit Tutoring" where you will find a description of the courses, the requirements, and a complete syllabus. Each course, when taken for 3 credit hours, qualifies for the Core Engaged Learning-Service Learning/Internship requirement. Students engage in service, research, and reflection. Both courses offer the same material with different requirements based only on the number of credit hours for which the student has registered. Engl 393 can be taken for 1, 2, or 3 credit hours and are open to students in any major; Honr 290 can be taken only for 3 credit hours and is offered only to students in the Interdisciplinary Honors Program. Depending on the number of credit hours for which they are registered, students tutor one or two evenings per week and attend five or six classes per semester plus an orientation. They also complete several writing assignments.
While the Loyola Community Literacy Center offers community adults an opportunity to improve their skills, it also gives student-tutors, alumni, and Loyola volunteers the chance to serve their community and to engage with their Jesuit education, "connecting the heart with the head" (MB). The Literacy Center is "such a salient reminder of how everyone is created in God’s image and has an inherent worth and dignity that cannot be defined by socio-economic status or race. It is so neat to realize our differences, not ignore them, and see how our world is enriched and made more like the Kingdom because of its diversity in humanity" (RR).
If you are interested in volunteering and have never tutored for us before, contact us at literacy@luc.edu for information on flash orientations or come to one of our regular orientations listed below.
If you are a Loyola second-semester freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior and have completed UCWR 110 (the only pre-requisite) and are interested in tutoring for credit in the fall or spring by enrolling in English 393 or Honors 290, please follow the link to "Tutoring" and then the link to "Course Credit Tutoring" where you will find a description of the courses, the requirements, and a complete syllabus. Each course, when taken for 3 credit hours, qualifies for the Core Engaged Learning-Service Learning/Internship requirement. Students engage in service, research, and reflection. Both courses offer the same material with different requirements based only on the number of credit hours for which the student has registered. Engl 393 can be taken for 1, 2, or 3 credit hours and are open to students in any major; Honr 290 can be taken only for 3 credit hours and is offered only to students in the Interdisciplinary Honors Program. Depending on the number of credit hours for which they are registered, students tutor one or two evenings per week and attend five or six classes per semester plus an orientation. They also complete several writing assignments.