Appendix A – Reading Selection Descriptions
Service-Learning Course Design for Community Colleges
By Donna Duffy, Robert Franco, Amy Hendricks, Roger Henry, Marina Baratian, and
Tanya Renner, with a foreword by Kay McClenney.
This volume offers hands-on guidance for creating effective service-learning courses in
the community college setting. Themes addressed include syllabus design, course
models, learning outcomes assessment, and documenting innovative teaching for faculty
advancement.
Engaged Department Toolkit
By Richard Battistoni, Sherril Gelmon, John Saltmarsh, Jon Wergin, and Edward
Zlotkowski.
This handbook is designed to help departments develop strategies for including
community-based work in their teaching and scholarship, making community-based
experiences a standard expectation for majors, and encouraging civic engagement and
progressive change at the departmental level. It acts as both a resource and a curriculum,
assisting others in replicating the Engaged Department Institutes offered nationwide by
Campus Compact. The toolkit comes with a CD-ROM with key information from the text
as well as PowerPoint slides and sample documents that can be adapted to meet the needs
of individual departments.
Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal – Special Edition
Edited by Isabel Baca and Joana Owens
This Humanities Education and Research Association’s Scholarly Journal is a refereed
scholarly journal, published three times a year. In the fall of 2012, the journal will feature
a special addition for humanities faculty engaged in service-learning.
The Civically Engaged Reader: A Diverse Collection of Short Provocative Readings
on Civic Activity
By Adam Davis and edited by Elizabeth Lynn
The Civically Engaged Reader assembles more than forty provocative and diverse
readings that range across literature, philosophy, and religion. These selections invite
reflection on all kinds of civic-minded activities--from giving and serving to leading and
associating--and on the vital connections between thought and service. The selections
in The Civically Engaged Reader stimulate both individual contemplation and lively
group discussion and debate. Appendixes with questions for discussion and tips for
making those discussions meaningful make this anthology a ready-to-go resource for
service and volunteer groups, as well as college classrooms. Published with support from
The Project on Civic Reflection.
Hearing the Calls Across Traditions: Readings on Faith and Service
Edited and authored by Adam Davis
An inspiring collection of readings that will raise deep questions about service and its
roots in faith. This book explores the connections between faith, service, and social
justice through the prose, verse, and sacred texts of the world's great faith traditions--
Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and more. Drawing from
diverse literary genres, religious and philosophical perspectives, and historical periods,
these short and provocative readings cut to the heart of the many obstacles and joys that
accompany lives devoted to faith and service:
Why do I serve?
Whom do I serve?
How do I serve?
This rich collection will create a platform for discussing and understanding the faithbased service of others as well as inspire you to reflect on the meaning behind your own
commitment to improving the world.
Specific Readings from these books will include:
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The Lesson, Toni Cade Bambara
The Eleventh, Henri Barbusse
Theme for English B, Langston Hughes
Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln
Earliest Impressions, Jane Addams
Fellowship and The Helmsman, Franz Kafka
The Same Inside, Anna Swir
It's Dangerous to Read Newspapers, Margaret Atwood
Lovers of the Poor, Gwendolyn Brooks