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Course Overview
Tentative List of Week to Week Topics: - Week One: Course Introduction/Service Learning Placements/Introduction to Reflective Practice
- Week Two: Culture: Shocks, Humility and Coming Home
- Week Three: Transformation and Identity
- Week Four: Good Work?
- Week Five: Power and Inequality in International Education
- Week Six: Critical Design and Education for Creative Change
- Week Seven: Acting Up, Getting Out and Building Community
- Week Eight: Bringing it Home
- Week Nine & Ten: Student Presentations
Week One, March 28 (W): - Course Introduction
- Self-Introductions
- Service
Learning Placements
- An
Introduction to Reflective Practice
Readings: There are no readings in preparation for the March 28 class.
Keywords:
reflective practice, reconstruction, critical thinking
Key Questions: How does reflective practice help us to
better understand our experiences and facilitate learning and critical thinking?
Reminders: - Register for service learning placement
through the Carlson
Center's online portal.
- Reflective #1 due by Wednesday (4/4), 10:00
am.
Week Two, April 4 (W): Culture: Shocks, Humility and Coming ‘Home':
Readings:
- "Returning Home" from What's Up with
Culture, Module 2.2 an online cultural training resource for study abroad from
the University of the Pacific, (1-5) (also accessible at http://www3.uop.edu/sis/culture/pub/2.2.1-_Returning
_Home.htm)
- Ward, C. et al. (2001), "Sojouners:
International Students" from the Psychology of Culture Shock. Routledge. 2nd edition, (142-167).
- Pusch, M. (2004). "A Cross-Cultural
Perspective" from Service Learning Across Cultures: Promise and Achievement. The International Partnership for Service
Learning and Leadership, New York,
(103-129)
- Bennett, M. and M. Hammer (1998). "The
Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity", unpublished handout, (1-2).
- Hunt, L. (2001). "Beyond Cultural
Competence: Applying Humility to Clinical Settings". The Park Ridge Center
Bulletin, Issue 24, December. (1-3).
Keywords:
culture shock, reverse culture shock, re-entry, cultural humility,
sojourn, intercultural sensitivity
Key Questions: What is reverse culture
shock? What have I learned about culture
through my overseas experience(s)? How
can reflective practice help us to process re-entry into a more intentional,
transformative experience?
Week Three, April 11 (W): Identity and Transformation
Readings: - Kiely, R. (2004). "A Chameleon with a
Complex: Searching for Transformation in International Service-Learning." Michigan Journal for
Community Service Learning (5-20).
- CHID Anthology Project (select readings)
- Aronson, H. (204). "Anger: Abandon it or
Express it?" from Buddhist Practice on Western Ground. Shambhala Press, Boston, 91-112.
- Kitchen, J. (2001). "Bahia de Todos Santos" from Distance and
Direction. Coffee House Press, Minneapolis,
145-160.
Keywords: transformation, forms of transformation, global
consciousness, chameleon complex
Key Questions: Related to Kiely's "Transforming Forms" how
have I been transformed from my overseas experience(s)? What are some examples of this? As a result of these transformations, how has
my identity changed?
Guest Speaker: Charlotte Tucker, 45th Street Homeless Youth Clinic
Week Four, April 18 (W): Good Work?
Readings:
- Loeb, P. R. (1999). "Making our Lives
Count" from Soul of a citizen: living with conviction in a cynical time. New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 1-7.
- Illich, I.
(1990). "To Hell with Good Intentions." Combining Service and Learning. J. C.
Kendall. Raleigh, North Carolina, National Society for
Internships and Experiential Education. Vol. 1: 314-320.
- Taylor-Ide, D. and C. Taylor (2002).
"Making a Large and Lasting Impact" from Just and Lasting Change: When
Communities Own Their Future. Johns
Hopkins University
Press. (47-68).
Keywords: civic engagement, citizenship,
good intentions, charity, social change
Key Questions: What
motivates you? How would you define what
it means to make a large and lasting impact?
How does service and volunteerism contribute to this? What might be some of the problems in doing
service and volunteerism?
Week Five, April 25 (W): Power and Inequality in International Education
Readings:
- Grusky, S. (2000). "International Service
Learning: A Critical Assessment from an Impassioned Advocate." The American
Behavioral Scientist, Vol 43, No. 5 (858-867).
- Geronimus, A. (2000). "To Mitigate, Resist
or Undo: Addressing Structural Influences on the Health of Urban Populations". American
Journal of Health, Vol. 90, No. 6 (867-872).
- Additional readings to be determined and
posted online
Keywords: structural influences, state, civil society,
private sector, North-South relations, international service learning
Key Questions: How is your overseas experience informed by
this week's readings? How could have
your experience reinforced stereotypes and/or relations of power and inequality
in particular settings?
Guest Speaker: Stephen Bezruchka, Senior
Lecturer, UW International Health Program
Week Six, May 2 (W): Critical Design and Education for Creative Change
Readings:
- Freire, P. "The Banking Concept of
Education" from P. Jarvis (ed.) Twentieth Century Thinkers in Adult and
Continuing Education, 2nd ed., London: Kogen Page Limited, (258-273).
- Werner, D. (1992). "Communication as if
People Mattered: Adapting Health Promotion and Social Action to the Global
Imbalances of the 21st Century" from Where there is no Doctor (39-60).
- Taylor-Ide, D. and C. Taylor (2002). "The While Mountain
Apache, United States" from Just and
Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Future. Johns Hopkins
University Press.
(179-185).
Keywords: banking method, participation,
education, empowerment
Key Questions: What have been the most meaningful
educational experiences in your life?
What made them meaningful?
Guest: Speaker: Huchoosedah Indian Education
Week Seven, May 9 (W): Acting Up, Getting Out and Building Community
Readings:
- Bauman, Z. (2004). "In the Beginning was
Design" from Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Outcasts. Polity Press
(9-33).
- Lister, R. (2004). "Poverty and Agency: From Getting By to
Getting Organized" from Poverty. Polity Press (124-157).
- Singer, P. (2002). "One Community" from One
World. Yale University Press (150-195)
Keywords:
redundancy, design, agency, activism, direct action, community
development
Key Questions: What
are some of the different ways to get engaged in the community? Why get involved in community?
Guest Speakers (panel): - Nancy Amidei, Senior Lecturer, UW Social
Work; Director, Civic Engagement project;
- Others guests to be determined
Week Eight, May 16 (W): Bringing it Home
Readings: - Zinn, H. (2004). "The Optimism of
Uncertainty" from P. Loeb (ed.) The Impossible will Take a Little While: A
Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear.
New York,
Basic Books (63-72).
- Safford, V. (2004). "The Small Work in the
Great Work" from P. Loeb (ed.) The Impossible will Take a Little While: A
Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear.
New York,
Basic Books (183-190).
- Loeb, P. (2004). "The Real Rosa Parks" from
P. Loeb (ed.) The Impossible will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to
Hope in a Time of Fear. New York, Basic Books (289-292).
- Kushner, T. (2004). "Despair is a Lie that
we tell Ourselves" from P. Loeb (ed.) The Impossible will Take a Little While:
A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear.
New York,
Basic Books (169-173).
- Ashford, M. (2004). "Staying the Course"
from P. Loeb (ed.) The Impossible will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide
to Hope in a Time of Fear. New York, Basic Books
(328-331).
Keywords:
engagement, creative social change, inspiration
Key Questions: How will you build on your overseas
experience? How will you extend your
current involvement with local community based organizations?
Guest Speakers (panel): - Michaelann Jundt, UW Carlson Leadership and
Public Service Center
- Loyce Mbewa, Rabour Village
Project
- Other guests to be determined
Weeks Nine and Ten, May 23 & 30 (W): Student Presentations
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