American Minority Groups SOC A408, Spring 2002
Community Service Learning Project
Community Partner: Healing Racism of Anchorage (HRA)
Objectives of project
 |
Students will work on their personal issues as they pertain to racism; |
|
Students will explore sociological analysis of race and ethnic relations and stratification in class, focusing on key concepts such as prejudice, institutional and other forms of discrimination, an on key racial and ethnic groups in the US and in Alaska |
|
Students will apply their learnings to addressing the issue of racism of younger students in surrounding high schools through the use of discussion groups (HRA will identify which high schools) |
|
Assist HRA in its current expansion by providing recommendations on this and other potential HR projects |
The class will be divided into small groups of 2 to 4 (depending on enrollment and number of interested high schools), each group being assigned to a high school.
Timeline
January & February: Students will explore their racism and racism in society in the first 8 weeks of class
March: Students will attend a facilitation training workshop facilitated by HRA outside of class time,
and students will meet in their small groups to plan their discussion groups
April: Students will lead discussion groups on racism with their assigned high school
at least on two occasions
Any materials that must be acquired to undertake the discussion group are provided by the grant monies.
Establishing contacts with high schools and teachers is undertaken by the professor. Scheduling of discuss groups is undertaken by the professor.
WRITTEN COMPONENT - each group member is to submit their own individual report
Due April 29th by 12 noon - NO extensions
Provide the following in a written report:
1)
Name of group members, school visited, dates visited, length of class
visits, teacher name and contact details
2)
Organization of class visits: detail
how many times you met as a group to work on project, how long were each
meetings, how did you divide the work
3)
Describe in detail the following:
-
what were your goals for the class visits;
-
what you did in the class and why;
-
how was the class response;
-
what was the response of the teacher to your efforts
-
what would you do differently if anything and why
4) Describe what were strengths and weaknesses of project itself as well as of yourself in terms of this project
5)
Describe how you would improve this project for future students of this
class – what would you need for yourself to improve, what does the project
need to improve, what does the professor need to do to improve this project, how
would the content of the course need to improve the project
6) Describe what you learned about yourself doing this project
7)
Thoughts on how the workload was divided between your group members.
| |
| |
| |
|
Return to MAIN PAGE |