Service-Learning Course Offerings

Honors 3000 is the course that denotes the following classes as qualifying for the Service-Learning requirement. In order to satisfy the service learning requirement for Honors, you must register for HON 3000 along with an associated course. At the end of the semester, you will be required to submit a 1-2 reflection paper which will discuss your service-learning required of you and how it impacted you as a student. There are several classes to choose from for this additional course; listed below are the course offerings for Spring/Summer and Fall 2019 that have already be approved for the service-learning requirement and the process for nominating any course for the requirement. If you have any questions about the Service-Learning requirement or about registering for courses, please contact the Honors advisors at honors@wayne.edu.

 

Fall 2021 Service-Learning Courses

 

AFS 5991: Field Work in the Black Community

CRN: 10251

Credits: 3-8

Professor: Lisa Alexander

Course Description: Field placement in community-based, human services, and civic organizations and governmental agencies. Restricted to Africana Studies majors.

 

ENG 3020 (IC): Writing and Community

CRN: All Sections

Credits: 3

Professor: Varies

Course Description: As a course that fulfills the Intermediate Composition (IC) general education requirement, English 3020 prepares students for reading, research, and writing in their upper-division courses and majors. Students in English 3020 achieve these outcomes through collaborative community engagement, which combines hands-on experience in a community setting with academic work related to that setting. Unlike volunteers, students in such a class get as much as they give. Students offer their time and labor to the community partner and, in return, get the chance to develop many types of intellectual skills in real community contexts. The course emphasizes researching local problems, analyzing various kinds of texts, writing for different purposes, listening, negotiating with people of different ages and from different backgrounds, and learning to work collaboratively with a diverse array of people and organizations.

 

HIS/US 3650: History of Detroit

CRN: 17931

Credits: 3

Professor: Tracy Neumann

Course Description: A New York Times op-ed contributor recently wrote, "Detroit is not someplace else; it's America." While the old axiom that all history is local history may be true, it is also the case that some local history is national history. Detroit's history transcends the boundaries of the "local," and the social, political, cultural, and economic processes that shaped Detroit have also shaped national, and in some cases international, history. In this course we will engage in inquiries that are relevant to the community in which we live and study, while at the same time we will work to understand Detroit's history not just as local history, but as US history. Our attention will focus substantially on the history and experiences of the diverse social groups that have inhabited the city since the eighteenth century. This semester, the Detroit Historical Society (DHS) will be our community partner for our service-learning projects.

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Honors 4930: Detroit Fellows Tutoring Project

CRN: 13226

Credits: 2-4 (Honors students must register for three or four credits.)

Professors: Dale Thomas & Marcella Verdun

Course Description: Earn 2 to 4 Honors credits while teaching reading skills to children in kindergarten through second grade who need additional help in Detroit Public Schools. Detroit Fellows work three (earns 2 credits), five (earns 3 credits) or seven (earns 4 credits) hours per week at their assigned school. The schedule is established by you based on your availability and the number of credits for which you sign up. Tutors work during regularly scheduled school hours: 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

 

SOC 1010 (SI): Understanding Human Society

CRN: 16413

Credits: 3

Professor: Zachary Brewster

Course Description: This course is intended to introduce you to the field of sociology. In this class, you will be exposed to the general ideas, concepts, theoretical perspectives, and research methods within the field of sociology. The underlying objective of this course is to help you develop a sociological imagination that will foster an enhanced awareness concerning the effects that social forces have on your lives and the lives of your fellow human beings. As part of Wayne State's community engagement initiative, this course will also require you to complete 10 hours of service-learning in a community agency that deals in some way with social inequality. The service-learning knowledge via books by experientially learning about social inequalities as they are manifested in the everyday lives of others in your community. Further, you will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge of social stratification by actively participating in efforts to ameliorate or otherwise cope with the consequences of inequities.

 

SW 1010 - Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare

CRN: All Sections

Credits: 3

Professor: Varies

Course Description: Focus is on the evolution of social welfare as a social institution and its relationship to social policy and the interaction of political and economic institutions. Focus is also on the skills necessary for understanding current welfare agencies, services, and resources as well as the knowledge requirements of generalist social work practice and professional social work in selected fields of practice (child welfare, gerontology, health care, mental health, schools, substance abuse, criminal justice, and crises/trauma). The Service Learning Project requires that each student work with his/her selected community service site to develop and actively engage in a semester-long service project that benefits the community.

 

TED 2250: Becoming an Urban Educator

CRN: All Sections

Credits: 3

Professor: Varies

Course Description: Examination of issues surrounding social justice in urban schools and society through the exploration of the historical, political, and social trends that influence education. Course includes a 40- hour service learning field experience.

 

Service-Learning Honors Option Examples

Below are a few examples of how to fulfill your service-learning requirement with Wayne State University courses using the Service-Learning Honors Option Form, if the above courses do not fit your schedule. Please remember that the service you perform and not just the community partner where you do your service MUST compliment the course material and you must register for HON 3000. Also, you must submit a Service Learning Honors Option form for approval.

 

Example 1

Course Name: Reporting Race, Gender and Culture - COM 4250

Service-Learning Component: Volunteer with an organization that services specific demographics (i.e. race and gender) or volunteer at a local newspaper

 

Example 2

Course Name: Introductory Food Science - NFS 2130

Service-Learning Component: Volunteer at a soup kitchen, food pantry, or community garden

 

Example 3

Course Name: Introduction to Ethics -PHI 2320

Service-Learning Component: Volunteer with an organization that promotes civil rights, animal rights, etc.

 

Example 4

Course Name: Law, Authority and Rebellion - PS 3510

Service-Learning Component: Volunteer at a law firm or politician's office

 

 

Example 5

Course Name: Diversity, Oppression and Social Justice - SOC 3110

Service-Learning Component: Volunteer with an organization that promotes social justice or volunteer at a women's shelter

 

Example 6

Course Name: Medical Spanish - SPA 3050

Service- Learning Component: Volunteer language skills at a hospital, senior home and/or clinic