Loras Honors: Service Learning

This blog is my effort to create a space where I can reflect on postings made by my students in a course I teach at Loras College in Dubuque, IA.  The course is dedicated to service learning, and it is the capstone course for the Loras Honors Program.  The Loras Honors Program attracts an outstanding group of students, and because I hope to remain involved with it through a variety of offerings, I have  created an address for this blog that is quite general: lorashonors@blogger.com. Despite this general address, all of the posts for this semester (Fall, 2008) will be dedicated to the service learning class.

Briefly, this capstone class tries to accomplish three things: to provide meaningful opportunities for community service; to create a structure where these service opportunities can be discussed for their larger social or cultural implications; to motivate students to reflect on what they discover about their educational backgrounds and their readiness to address issues in the world outside the classroom.