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Service Learning Courses at Denison, Spring 2008

Communication 221, “Theories of Group Communication”
Cassandra Secrease-Dixon
MW 1:00-2:00 and T 3:00-4:00
Course description:
This course is intended to provide you with the understanding and skill necessary to communicate effectively in any group, whether it is a social club, a religious organization, or a high-level executive committee I your future career. But the course goes more specifically to your preparation for the intensive work in teams that you probably will experience in your personal life and your career. It will give you a firm foundation of knowledge, experience to develop your skills, and a resource for future use. This is a service-learning course, in which you will be conducting research for My Place To Be, a local school for autistic children. As a member of a research team, you will be given a specific topic to work on on behalf of the school.

Education 421, “Senior Seminar: Teaching is Transformation”
Lyn Robertson
TR 1:30-2:50 p.m.
Course description:
This seminar serves as a “capstone” for your major or minor in Educational Studies. The course of study in which you have been engaged is designed to support you in making your way toward becoming an autonomous, humane teacher capable of taking responsible action in the classroom and/or in other settings. Across the courses you have already completed, you have been asked to examine the historic, political, sociological, psychological, economic, and philosophic roots of the U.S. Education system. In this course, you will have the opportunity to revisit some of these areas in order to further your understanding of them. You will encounter some ideas you have seen before, and this is your chance to think about them anew and to cement your understanding of them. You will also encounter some ideas for the first time. Your task is to come to a more comprehensive understanding of what is involved in teaching and learning at all levels, from the personal interactions a student and teacher can have to the larger realm of the place of education in society.This is a service-learning course, and you will each be spending two class periods each week with one or more students at Utica Junior High School. You can learn about this school at http://www.northfork.k12.oh.us/ Your role will be to help your student(s) with reading, and you will be using an approach described by researcher/scholar Constance Weaver in this process.

German 302-01 "Reading and (Re)Acting in the Wake of the Holocaust."
Leo Riegert
MWF 13:30-14:20, R 13:30-15:20
Course description:
Despite Theodor Adorno’s 1949 statement, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” the number of literary (and scholarly texts) dealing with the Holocaust has become immense. In this course we will discuss just a few of the cultural responses to the Holocaust created in the German language since 1945. Readings of poetry, prose (memoir, novel, short story), and film will be complemented by journalistic texts, websites, and works of history, in order to help us understand larger controversies surrounding the representation of the Holocaust, the way it has been and continues to be depicted, debated, and remembered. We will examine such authors as Jurek Becker, Ruth Klüger, Anna Seghers, and Bernhard Schlink, and we will address such issues as the uniqueness of the Holocaust, the often gray areas between perpetrators and bystanders, issues of collective guilt and responsibility, as well as the centrality of the Holocaust in conceptions of German identity since the war.

Spanish 323 “Hispanic Culture Service”
Dosinda Garcia-Alvita
MWF 10:30-111:20
Course description:
This course is for students who want to learn about the culture of Hispanic communities of the USA and those interested in using their Spanish language skills through interaction with local Hispanic communities. The goals of this course are two-fold as it integrates academic readings and discussions in Spanish about the Hispanic community in the USA with service work within that community.

For more information, contact Susie Kalinoski.
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