REQUIREMENTS

UC102 (1 credit hour) Michigan Community Scholars Program Seminar

This course will provide students with an opportunity to critically review their role in the university and as a Michigan Community Scholars Program participant. It will allow students to consider the expectations of their university experience within a framework of theoretical perspectives. It is hoped that students will develop a broad understanding of what their university experience can include and how they can shape it to realize their academic potential and intellectual development. The course will focus on the transition from high school to college, access to faculty, identity issues, critical thinking, social justice, and community service learning. The issues and challenges of living and working in a multicultural society will be examined. The large group discussions will focus on student perceptions, relevant research and university resources. The small group discussions will focus on the readings and areas of practical concern. This course is open only to students in the Michigan Community Scholars Program.

 

UC151 (3 credit hours) Schools, Community and Power
Fall 2002 Syllabus, Winter 2003 Syllabus

This is a service-learning course that integrates traditional academic coursework with personal reflection and community involvement. The goal of the course is to explore the dynamics of informal education in a community. This course will help university students to understand the effects of social history and culture on the social identity of young children and how community members, especially elders, help to create and support positive roles for young children within a community. Students will work closely with members of the community and program staff to document cultural beliefs and practices that help to shape social identity and social expectations within the community. Both university students and community youngsters will develop a service-learning project that embodies these practices and that will contribute to the cultural life of the community. The course will be divided into two components that are dynamically relates: classroom instruction, which includes lectures, group presentations and written reflections, and community action.

 

As part of this class, students are required to go on a Detroit Tour, available here.

 

Soc 389 (3 credit hours) Social Identity and Justice
Winter 2002 Syllabus, Winter 2003 Syllabus

This course, as part of the LUCY Initiative, is a service-learning course designed to enhance student service in Detroit by exploring the meaning and complexities of urban communities and social justice. Students will be active participants in tier study of community through interviews with elders, discussions with children, and exploration and observation of their surroundings. This course is intended to give students a variety of lenses and theoretical frameworks through which to view the joys and challenges of urban children and youth. This course will consist of three components: coursework, service, and inter-group dialogues. Coursework will include readings, lecture, discussion and reflection. Service will be situated at three Detroit sites: Camp Detroit, Logan Elementary, and University Preparatory Academy. Students will be required to serve at their site for 5-6 hours each week. Students will also be involved in FIGs (First Year Interest Groups) Social Identity Circles that focus on issues of identity and social justice through small group dialogue.

 

To be given an override for the class, you will need to complete an application, available here.

 

ED310 (1-4 credits, two terms)
Winter 2003 Syllabus

This course combines participation in a speaker's series of urabn issues, mentorship with community activists and individual commitment to service at each site.

 

Elective (3-4 credit hours)

Students choose from a list of courses from various university departments that relate to urban issues.

 

 

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