WST 3015: Final Paper and Presentation on Service Learning Project

WST 3015:  Final Paper and Presentation on Service Learning Project

* Your Hours LOG signed by your community partner should be stapled to this paper. You should also include artifacts from your project (pictures, a flyer you made, newspaper articles you are featured in, the lesson plan your group created), which will be part of your presentation.

This should be all one document (MLA style) and should include the following labeled sections:

·      Project Summary 30%: (250 words maximum; please be concise; note that much for this section probably already exists in your proposal and log, which I hope you will draw from here.)

o   Origins and scope of project: what did you plan to accomplish and why?

o   What exactly did you do?  How did the project evolve, what were the successes and limitations of your project and its goals, and what have you learned from that?

o   What institutional framework did your project interact with?

o   What was the significance of your project to the texts, themes, and goals of the course?

o   How was your understanding of the texts/issues considered in the course upheld, complicated, or negated by the process of completing the project?

o   What do you hope your audience gained from your project? 

·      Synthesis 35%:  (Answer ONE of the following questions that most connects with your SL project.  This section should be approximately 500 words and should include effective textual support and/or documentation from at least two external resources besides our course texts.)

o   What can people do in their communities on behalf of women and/or girls?  Discuss how one or more of the following impediments impacts action in communities:  internalized oppression, path of least resistance, subscribing to a hierarchy of oppression, not knowing one another’s history.

o   Discuss a single institutional framework that shapes women’s lives and impacts their lack of human rights.  Discuss how that institutional framework could be redefined from a feminist perspective.

o   What idea, concept, or story stands out as the most significant thing you have learned about women and their experiences with regards to diversity of women across differences in culture, religion, sexuality, race, age, socioeconomic situation, ability, location, etc?

·      Reflection and connection 35%: (approximately 250-500 words)

• This section will consider the ways that what you’ve read, discussed, and experienced throughout the semester, both in and out of class, including both the readings and the SL project you completed, impacted how you understand the ways that institutional frameworks shape women’s experiences and position in societies from a social justice perspective. Describe specific moments or readings or events and connect them with specific thinking or behavior of your own.  Of course, these specific instances may be positive and negative, clear and unclear (sometimes both at the same time!).  The important thing here is to demonstrate that you have connected what you have read and done in this class to who you are as a person who lives in a world with women and how you might think and behave in the future.  Here you might consider what is next for you, as a student or as a global citizen. 
• This can be in the form of expressive art, a photobook, or something you decide but it must meet the criteria for the section and the approximate "work count"
  

Post word count after every section. Do not exceed 1,300 words.

Presentation:

You and your group (if you worked in one) are responsible for putting together a mult-media presentation and/or poster for the class on your service learning project.

This project presentation should reflect the work of everyone; that means if someone isn’t speaking then they better be acknowledged as the multi-media whiz. It should include:

·      What did you do in your project?

o   Include excerpts from materials you generated, pictures, flyers, newspaper articles you were featured in, maybe a t-shirt you created.

·      What did you learn by doing this project? How does this connect to Women’s Studies or feminism?

·      What do you want other people to know for the future (how to get involved, the significance, something about how you felt, etc.)

·      Works Cited

Your group will only get three minutes per presentation: be concise, be creative, be academic.

Rubrics for the assignments are included as pictures here. Click on them to enlarge.