Application for Service Learning Curriculum Design Series (2023)

 
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CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 

APPLICATION FOR THE SERVICE LEARNING CURRICULUM DESIGN SERIES

Submit by February 13, 2023

 

Introduction and Overview

Community engagement and service is important now more than ever. Society continues to face incredible challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a re-evaluation of individual civic roles and responsibilities and what it means to be a democracy, and a reckoning regarding the role of race and racism in our country. CSULB is in a unique position to support our students and our local communities in navigating through these times. Service learning provides a means for us to help address these and other significant issues in ways that deepen students’ understanding of course content and of their own personal, professional, and civic development.

A small cohort of faculty will be selected to participate in the Spring 2023 Curriculum Development Design Series. Curriculum development funds of $750 will be made available to faculty who (1) complete a successful redesign of their course syllabus* and (2) teach the service learning course in the upcoming academic year (with the intention to teach the service learning course in future semesters). 

*A successfully redesigned course syllabus includes all characteristics/criteria of a service learning course as established in the CSULB Policy on Service Learning and has been certified by the Center for Community Engagement as meeting these criteria.

To be considered applicants should:

  • Be a tenured/tenure-track faculty or full time lecturer;
  • Be able to provide a letter of support from your department chair;
  • Be on the schedule to teach the proposed course in the upcoming academic year;
  • Have a general idea of how Service Learning would fit within your course;
  • Have identified potential community partner organizations or types of organizations or issues appropriate for your course.
  • Be able to attend all five curriculum workshops.*

*The Spring 2023 workshop schedule will be finalized based on cohort availability: either on Wednesdays (March 8, March 22, April 5, April 19, and May 3), and/or Thursdays (March 9, March 23, April 6, April 20, and May 4).

 

Curriculum Development Funds of $750 will be made available to faculty who:

  1. Complete a successful redesign of their course syllabus (based on established criteria for best practices as reflected in the CSULB Policy on Service Learning and the Chancellor's Office Community-Engaged Learning Rubric)*; and
  2. Teach the Service Learning course in the upcoming academic year with the intention to teach the Service Learning course in future semesters.

*For more information on the CSULB Policy on Service Learning and the CSU Chancellor's Office Community-Engaged Learning Rubric.