Service Learning

Veteran teachers have several teaching choices. One that has been very popular with teachers and students alike is Service Learning (SL). Students will spend several hours each week in a volunteer role with a school or other organization. Their assignments throughout the semester reflect on the work they are doing.

The English Department currently offers multiple SL classes in English 101, 102, 219, and 220 each semester. To learn more about the program, read through the "What is Service Learning?" documents. Future or current SL teachers may also want to use the included sequence and assignment samples from previous SL teachers. If you are teaching a Service Learning class, please contact Erin Lebacqz at elebacqz@unm.edu.

Service Learning Resources:

Service Learning FAQs (doc)
Teacher Information (doc)
Student Information (doc)
Recent Service Learning Survey (doc)

Class Resources

101 Service Learning Syllabus
102 Service Learning Syllabus

Service Learning WEBCT 102 Materials

-Essay Prompt 1
-Essay Prompt 2
-Essay Prompt 3
-Portfolio Prompt
-WebCT Discussion Prompts

Instructor Readings

• Afterschool, Community Service & Volunteerism (doc)
• Defining Service Learning (doc)
• Building Effective Partnerships in Service-Learning (doc)
• Difficult Stories: Service Learning, Race Class and Whiteness (pdf)
• Sustainable Service Learning Programs (pdf)
• Intercultural Inquiry and the Transformation of Service (pdf)
• Service Learning & Social Change: The Case for Materialist Rhetoric (pdf)
• Benefits of Service Learning for the Community (pdf)
• Integrated Curriculum and Service Learning (pdf)
• Moral Education & Character Education (pdf)
• Respects for Persons & Culture as a Basis for National & Global Citizenship (pdf)
• Putting Literacy in its Place: Nomadic Conciousness and the Practice of Transcultural Repositioning (pdf)
• Service Learning & English Studies: Rethinking "Public" Service (pdf)
• Service Learning Now Attracts a New Kind of Student (pdf)
• Service Learning & First-Year Composition (pdf)
• Getting Ready for Service Learning Involving Literacy (pdf)
• Facing (Up To) 'The Stranger' in Community Service Learning (pdf)
• Community Service & Critical Teaching
• Academic Service Learning (pdf)
• The Moral Roots of Citizenship: Reconciling Principles & Character in Citizenship Education (pdf)

Student Readings

• After-School Programs: An Investment that Pays Off (pdf)
• Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers (pdf)
• Creating Identity: Personal, Academic and Civic Literacies (pdf)
• Frederick Douglass - Learning to Read and Write (pdf)
• Maxine Kingston - Silence (pdf)
• Richard Rodriguez - Public & Private Language (pdf)
• What is Community? (doc)