Service Learning Component
Each of you will choose a cause to be the subject of your service and activism.  The causes you may choose from are:
   
    Community Activism and Training (Justice Club, Spokane Neighborhood Alliance,       Spokane Alliance, Neighborhood Councils )

    Labor Activism (UFCW, SEIU, USWA)
   
    Service to Women/Children (Women's Hearth, TLC, Women's Justice Circles, childcare for leadership institutes?)

    Working for Global Economic Justice/Fair Trade (PJALs, Justice Club, Global Folk Art)

Community Partners
Community Partners active in your cause are listed in parantheses after the name of the issue.  You will work with the community partner over the course of the semester. Students must perform 3-4 hours per week of service to the  Community Partner.  A total of 45 hours of service is required. 

For a list of Community Partners listed by cause, click here. 

Keeping Track of and Reflecting Upon Service
Each student will complete a Service Learning Contract with his/her Community Partner contact enumerating the activities the student will participate in, the hours of service, etc.  Student will keep track of his/her hours on the Service Learning Hour Log to be turn in bi-weekly in class, every other Monday.

Students will also journal about their service experiences by posting their journal entries to Blackboard's Discussion Boards.  One journal entry and one response to some one else's journal entry is required each week.

 At the conclusion of the semester, the student will complete self-assessment and an evaluation of the Community Partner and the Community Partner will complete an evaluation of the student.  The forms for these will be provided by CCASL.

Presentations
Each Presentation Group will describe the service activities of its members over the course of the semester and suggest ways we can become better informed about the issue, ways to become involved in service in the issue area.  Is there room for social entrepreneurism in your issue? 

Each presentation should contain the following elements:
1.  Problem Description.  The presentation should begin with a Problem Description describing the nature of the problem(s) your community partners address.
2.  Community Partners.  Then, each presentation should present information on your CommunityPartners and how these groups are attempted to solve the problem you are addressing. 
3.  Your Service Learning.  You should include a couple of slides on each group member's Service Learning activities and how these contribute to the community partner's goals. 
4.  Action Plan.  Each presentation should conclude with an Action Plan, detailing what we, as engaged citizens of the globalized world, can do to help address the problem explored by your group.  The Action Plan should touch upon several forms of civic engagement and suggest actions appropriate to interational, national, state, and local levels of government/problem solving.