International Service Learning Experience
Overview
The following global ideas guide the design and delivery of this course:
- Themes - explore themes representing the theoretical, ethical and practical questions that arise in international service learning processes, including sustainability, cultural competence, balance and reciprocity, motivation, and witnessing and observing
- Case studies - consider, reflect, and dialogue on real life scenarios from diverse non-Western or developing countries
- Individualized Learning Plans – collaboratively develop a learning plan for an international service learning experience in a developing country that reflects student learning outcomes and service needs of local community agency
- Implement, Reflect Upon, and Develop Recommendations – individualized learning plans advance and enhance student learning and provide value-added to local community agency
- Preparation, Planning, and Debrief – engage in physical, emotional and intellectual preparation to recognize, anticipate, and deal with the risks and realities of an international service learning experience
- Field experience
- Supervision
- Seminar discussion
- Facilitation
This course will conform to Douglas College policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:
- Written research assignment
- Book report
- In-class presentation
- Development and completion of a learning plan
- Self evaluation
- Field assessment
This is a mastery / non-mastery course
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural, political, economic and social contexts of the international service learning country
- Articulate and apply the values and practices of cultural competence, sustainability, balance and reciprocity, and witnessing and observing
- Develop an international service learning plan that is consistent with ethical, culturally competent, and sustainable practices
- Deconstruct personal values, beliefs, and motivations as they apply to the international service learning experience
- Participate in and reflect upon an international service learning experience in a developing country
- Provide recommendations, program materials, and / or other resources to the international community service learning site.
Coursepack and other readings as determined by faculty.
Requisites
Prerequisites
Permission of the faculty.
Corequisites
No corequisite courses.
Equivalencies
No equivalent courses.
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
Institution | Transfer details for CFCS 3040 |
---|---|
Coast Mountain College (CMTN) | No credit |
College of the Rockies (COTR) | No credit |
Quest University (QU) | QU EXP 3XXX (3) |
Simon Fraser University (SFU) | No credit |
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | No credit |
Trinity Western University (TWU) | No credit |
University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) | No credit |
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | No credit |
University of Northern BC (UNBC) | UNBC INTS 3XX (6) |
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) | UFV CYC 3XX (3) |
University of Victoria (UVIC) | UVIC CYC 3XX (3) |