How do your own cultural experiences and ethnic backgrounds influence your interest in community engagement, the types of projects you take on, and so on?  Compare your experiences to those discussed in the article. You can also write a different response, but you should compare your own personal experiences with those in the article. By Thursday …

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For Tuesday, you will read about how community partners select service learners, and in your service learning reflections from last week, you wrote about why you chose the site you did.  How do these criteria fit together?  In what ways might they conflict? Do the criteria community partners use to choose you make it easier, …

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By Thursday October 7 at 1:30 PM, please tell us about one thing you learned from Thursday’s readings (about presentations) and how you could have benefited from it in the past…. be specific in your story about the past and in your connection to the reading.

By 1:30 on Tuesday, October 5, please answer one or multiple of these questions: 1) Thomas Erlich (the author) declares that we cannot afford to educate a generation of students who only have knowledge with no understanding of how to use that knowledge to help the community.  What do you think about this statement?  How …

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You will want to customize this email… it would be a bit odd I suspect for these agencies if they were to receive the exact same email from each of you, but this will give you an idea. Dear _________ I am writing, because I am enrolled in Dr. Hayes’s class on Civic and Community …

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Answer one of these questions … or make up a new question of your own and answer it Answers due as responses to this blog comment (please put your name in so I can tell who you are) by the time class begins on Thursday September 30. (1)What is meant by social capital? (2)What are …

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The first thing to do when going to the wiki is to go to the page you want. At this time, there is only one page, but there will soon be more. So, click on Introduce Yourselves. If you need to upload a new image (which you almost certainly do need to do), click on …

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Hi everyone, I have gotten a lot of great questions by email about working with service learning sites other than those on our class website.  Here is some information for those of you who might already have a site in mind: (1)           You must already be engaged in regular service at the alternate site. (2)           …

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Welcome to US 10: Introduction to Civic and Community Engagement.  We are so glad you are here. Please check back VERY frequently for updated information, posts, and generally ways to get together and communicate as part of this class. I am excited for a great fall quarter and hope you are too! Gillian