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Learning Outcome 3: Students can make distinctions about
the diversity of the city (ethnic, racial, class, neighborhoods, etc).
Learning Goal 3: Promote Vincentian values of community service and respect
for diversity:
Suggested Best Practices:
1. Have a guest speaker from University Ministry come to discuss how
DePaul promotes Vincentian values through community service opportunities
for students. Have the University Ministry speaker emphasize opportunities
for learning about diverse groups through service learning.
2. Have students do service work that exposes them to diverse communities
such as: the Heartland Community Center on N. Sheridan where they can
serve as tutors or assist in the daycare center, or Habitat for Humanity
where they can help renovate or build a home in an underprivileged community.
Try to tie the themes of the class into the service site.
3. Have students work in groups that have the following diversity in its
membership: male/female; city/suburban; mixed races; different majors
or colleges. Students can reflect upon the challenges and opportunities
created by this diversity.
4. Show the video "What Can Religion Do to Solve Chicago's Problems?"
and engage in a follow-up discussion that reflects upon Vincentian values
and service and how this can help solve social problems.
5. Have students engage in an exercise related to heterosexism and homophobia,
in which you simulate a game show where the guests are "out"
heterosexuals and other ask them questions that are often asked of gay/lesbian/bisexual
people such as "what do you think made you straight?" and "aren't
people afraid to have their kids around you since you're straight?"
After this, have a discussion and reflection session on heterosexism and
homophobia that includes a variety of handouts and a take home assignment
related to ways that each person can work to end heterosexism/homophobia.
6. Provide learning prompts that foster discussions about diversity. For
example, expose students to diverse organizations and youth through their
service learning. Have students read case studies relating to your course
content that focus on different diversity-related issues (i.e., race,
ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, acculturation, etc.).
7. Have a guest speaker come in from Horizons—an organization that
assists gay and lesbian youth. This has been a powerful learning experience
for Discover/Explore Chicago students in the past.
8. Require students to engage in a form of participatory action research
throughout the quarter. That is, in the process of preparing their class
projects or writing assignments, students should perform service for organizations
in the neighborhood that they are researching or writing about. This extends
the service requirement considerably, encourages and rewards students
for helping others, and pays dividends to Chicago-based agencies and organizations
that assist with students’ education through service learning projects.
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