Application for Service Learning Curriculum Design Series (gen)

 
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CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 

APPLICATION FOR THE SERVICE LEARNING CURRICULUM DESIGN SERIES

 

Dear Faculty,

Community engagement and service is important now more than ever. Society today is facing 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 local communities and our students 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 upcoming Curriculum Development Design Series. Curriculum development funds 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 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 sites or types of sites appropriate for your course.
  • Be able to attend all curriculum workshops. The workshop schedule will be finalized based on cohort availability.
  • Be able to present your final syllabus at a date to be determined.

 

 
NAME AND CONTACT INFORMATION
Department Chair Name
 
COURSE INFORMATION
Please check all that apply:
Please indicate when this course is expected to be offered. Choose all that apply.
What is the expected enrollment for this course (per section)?
Please list the section numbers that are generally assigned to you. If you do not know the specific section numbers, please indicate how many sections you generally teach in a given semester.
 
SERVICE LEARNING
Provide a brief description of the course/proposed course.
Please list the current learning objectives as well as any proposed learning objectives. Please indicate which are existing and which are proposed, and which you feel could be met through service learning. These do not need to be fully developed.
Please provide a clear statement on how you envision integrating Service Learning into the course learning objectives and how you believe Service Learning could enhance student learning in the course.
Please describe any community partners you have in mind or the types of community sites and/or type of issues that you think would be appropriate for this course.
 
DEPARTMENT CHAIR LETTER OF SUPPORT

Please provide a letter from your department chair indicating your chair's support of the proposed course redesign and of you teaching the course in the upcoming academic year.

Please upload your department chair's letter of support.
More information
  • Files must be less than 2 MB.
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If you are unable to upload, please e-mail the letter to CCE-SL@csulb.edu
 

AVAILABILITY FOR WORKSHOPS

Participants must be able to attend all workshop meetings. We will need to schedule these based on the schedules of all participants, so please be as flexible as possible. If there is a slight time conflict (for example, you teach a class that ends at 1:15, but you are otherwise available for a 1:00-4:00 time frame), specify the conflict in the comment section.
AvailableUnavailableMinor Time ConflictDo Not Know
Mondays 9:00-12:00 *
Mondays 1:00-4:00 *
Tuesdays 9:00-12:00 *
Tuesdays 1:00-4:00 *
Wednesdays 9:00-12:00 *
Wednesdays 1:00-4:00 *
Thursdays 9:00-12:00 *
Thursdays 1:00-4:00 *
Fridays 9:00-12:00 *
Fridays 1:00-4:00 *


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If you have any questions please contact the Center for Community Engagement at CCE-SL@csulb.edu