Course Description
This course allows students to receive credit for extended participation in community engagement, extern- and internships, study abroad, community service and volunteerism, professional shadowing, and other experiential learning and career enhancement activities. Student will work with a supervising IAAS faculty member to create assessment that must indicate how the student will apply this work to African American interdisciplinary scholarship.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
This course allows students to receive credit for community engagement, externships, study abroad, and professional shadowing and other experiential learning and career enhancement activities. Supervised by an IAAS faculty member, a student will create a process for reflection and assessment, including, for example, keeping a critically reflective journal or writing an article. Graduate students will demonstrate the impact on professional competency in the course. This course will develop applied writing skills: being able to clarify textually the service is and how it impacts the community.
Athena Title
Engaged Learning
Prerequisite
AFAM 2000
Undergraduate Pre or Corequisite
Interest in the cultural, social, and historical movements among Americans of African descent
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will participate in an experiential learning project throughout the course.
- Students will recognize and reflect on personal values, experiences, and their own potential for and limitations in civic engagement, reflecting on academic skills and interests in relation to civic interests.
- Students will demonstrate an ability to reflect on the relationship between old and new concepts and skills, how they best learn, and broadened perspectives about educational and life events.
- Students will be able to recognize, connect, and articulate the role of active learning in their development of knowledge and skills.
- Students will be able to articulate, implement, and reflect on a substantive application of their academic foundations
to a real-world setting and/or challenge.
Topical Outline
- Students will meet with professor to create a learning plan, including agreed-upon activities, assessments, and outcomes.
- Student and professor will agree on required reading on the engagement type in which they participate from "Learning Through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement." All will read "Understanding the Learning-Through-Serving Proposition."
- Student will engage Faculty supervisor bi-weekly for regular response to student work, reflection, and integration
of learning throughout the activity through agreed-upon activities.
- Student will produce a final reflection to be agreed upon with the supervising faculty. This can be a portfolio, the submission of a critical journal, the writing of an article or reflective paper, or other mode of assessment, including a podcast or other creative form.
