Re: service-learning in Literature class

Title: Re: service-learning in Literature class

I like Cathy Comstock's piece on the lit/SL connection--it's particularly good at articulating relationships between contemporary literary theory and SL.  You can find a link to it here:

http://csf.colorado.edu/sl/kraft-book/kraft.html

For a student-oriented, practical approach, you could see (sorry to be self-promoting) Chapter 5/"Literature, Culture, and Social Reflection" in T.Deans, Writing and Community Action: A Service-Learning Rhetoric and Reader (Longman, 2003).  For a more teacher- and researcher-oriented view, see Chapter 3/"Writing About the Community" in Writing Partnerships: Service-Learning in Composition (NCTE, 2000).  That chapter also points readers to other scholarship on SL/lit.

Tom Deans

At 8:31 AM -0500 10/28/03, Kathy Manning wrote:

> Hello all,
> I'm working with a faculty member who is planning to incorporate
> Service-Learning into his Intro to Literature class for the first time
> this spring. The class involves looking at different theoretical
> approaches to, and the value of, literature.
> Does anyone have sample assignments, syllabi, and suggested readings
> for a Literature course that you would be willing to share?
> Thanks!
>
> Kathy Manning
> Director of Service Learning
> Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Elon Volunteers!
> Campus Box 2999 / Moseley
> 230
> Elon University
> Elon, NC 27244
> (336) 278-7250
>

-- 

Tom Deans  |  Writing Program  |  Haverford College  |  370 Lancaster Avenue  |  Haverford, PA  19041-1392  |  610.896.4979  |  http://www.haverford.edu/writingprogram/deans/welcome.htm