Motivation to Teach Social Action:
I am a part of the committee on community and service-learning course development, a community learning course and peer mentoring committee, and create and teach community and service-learning themed coursed. I could see the institute aiding in developing a course focused on social action and change, particularly in the community writing course and my grant writing course.
Course Description:
ENG 3010 tasks learners with exploring discipline-based learning where student work culminates in a research proposal. For pre-med and nursing students, the course focuses on medical disparities and bias. ENG 3020 partners with the non-profit organization 826michigan, with a central goal of social action, providing support to underserved schools such as DPS, where students' grant proposals focus on social action and awareness. Additionally, a sequence of composition courses for learners in the Macomb Prison focuses on obtaining a bachelor's degree in sociology, exploring systemic socio-economic and racial disparities, discrimination, and factors that marginalize or lead to incarceration.
Taught By:
Jule Thomas
Full Professor of Teaching
English
Wayne State University
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