Week 1
W August 31
Course
Overview
Week 2
M September 5
Introduction
to Service
Learning
Guest: Molly Ayers, Gonzaga Center for Community Activism and
Service Learning (CCASL)
W September 7
Meeting
Our Community Partners: Global Economic Justice/Fair Trade
Guests: Chris Ricci, Justice Club; Rusty Nelson, Peace and
Justice Action League of Spokane (PJALS)
Assignment is to peruse the following sites:
PJALS
Fairtrade Foundation
Global
Folk Art
ACORN's Living Wage Campaign
Economic
Policy Institute Information on Living Wage
PJALS Living
Wage Link
Week 3
M September 12
Meeting
Our Community Partners: Organized
Labor in the New Economy
Guests:
Garry McKinney,
United Steelworkers Trentwood, Aaron Streepy, UFCW Local 1439, Jennie
Reed,
SEIU Local 1199.
Assignment: peruse the following sites:
UFCW
USWA
SEIU
Decline in Union Power
Industrial
Areas Foundation - History, Saul Alinsky
IAF
- NW
Spokane Neighborhood
Alliance
Logan Neighborhood
Council
Second Logan
Neighborhood Link
Week 5
M September 26
Civic
Change in America
Reading: Putnam, Chpt. 2 - 9 (read selectively)
*You
must
have chosen your Community Partner by Today - hand in your choice to
Professor Brunell in class. Contact Partner to do orientation and
sign
Service Learning Contract this week. Start journaling by
introducing yourself and your community partner to the class on the
Discussion Board. Address the questions listed in the Blackboard
Discussion Board Forum.
W September
28
Civic Change
in America
Reading: Putnam, Chpts. 10-15 (read selectively)
Week 6
M October 4
What is Putnam missing?
Reading: Ehrenreich, Introduction and Chpt. 1
W October 6
Reports on how our service
is going
Reading:
Ehrenreich, Chpts. 2 and 3
Week 7
M October 11
Reading: Bornstein,
Chpt. 2
W
October 19
Debrief on Kunstler
Guest: Kathy Gunderson, USWA/Spokane Alliance
Reading: How to Change the World - chpt. on Florence Nightengale
and AIDs in Africa
Week 9
M October 24
Presentations on Living Wage (Jessica), and the pros (Yong) and cons
(Travis) of big box retail
Reading: How to Change the World - chpt. in How to Change
the World on reforming healthcare in Brazil and on helping the disabled
in Hungary.
W
October 26
SL sharing/How to Change
the World
Reading: Chpt. on college affordability and last chpt. in How to
Change the World (The Growth of the Civic Sector)
Week 10
M October 31
catch-up day
W November 2
class guests
Week 11
M November 7
presentations
W November 9
People Before Profit Intro
Reading: Berber, Foreward, Introduction, Chpt. 1
W November 16
Summing-up, Synthesizing,
Integrating
Review for Exam
Week 13
M November 21
Exam
W November 23
Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 14
M November 28
Presentation Group 1: Relational Organizing, Community Leadership
Melissa Garcia, Allison Rego, Yong Kim, Travis Herring, Nicole Trecker
W November 30
Presentation Group 2: Service Learning with Women and Children
Kathleen Keller, Emily Christenson, Sara Moller, Jaymie Carlson, Penny
Trunkey-Westphal, Emily Ellis, Nick Murray, Kelly Tavenner
Week 15
M December 5
Presentation Group 3: Service Learning and Campus Activism
Brianne Sheets, Ashlin Mears, Lily Osborne, Anna Wuitschick, Derek Andreason
Presentation 4:
Service in the Native American Community
Toni Allen
W December 7
Presentation
Group 4: Service Learning for Justice
Jessica
Araas, Beth Connor
Course Wrap-up