FYE SpEl.Folio Assignments 2011-2012
My Spelman Experience Reflections
Assignment 1 | Assignment 2 | Community Service Reflection |
Writing Portfolio Assignment
My Spelman Experience Reflection 1 Assignment
Length: 500-1000 words
Due Date: October 4, 2011
Reflection upon the Liberal Arts and a Global Culture: From Spelman to the World
You have listened to Dr. Johnnella E. Butler’s talk about a liberal arts education, becoming a global citizen, and the significance of civility. As you are aware, First Year Experience has a focus on the relationship between you (and your education) and the larger world community. In view of our growing understanding of conflict in many global locations, news of the "Arab Spring," and histories of twentieth-century genocides, like that in Rwanda, how do you understand or even re-envision the function of a liberal arts education?
Compose an essay. Present your own goals, both short- and long-term, from your Spelman education and comment on how they relate to a global context, drawing several focused areas of concern. You will also wish to edit your draft of this essay with some care—making your points as clear and readable as possible.
Becoming A Free Thinking Woman (pdf)
Becoming a Free Thinking Woman (PowerPoint)
My Spelman Experience Reflection 2 Assignment
Length: 800-1000 words
Due Date: November 6, 2011
During this semester, you have had opportunities to reflect upon dramatic instances in civil disorder and, at the same time, examine your own understanding of citizenship, civility, and the values you bring to goals and to conflict. Has your exposure to conflict in Rwanda in 1994 changed or deepened any of the goals you chose to discuss in Reflection 1?
Compose an essay that analyzes any changes or new considerations in your view of academic work, career goals, or the qualities of character you may wish to have. Alternatively, you may confirm and explain the consistency of your goals. In doing so you may wish to discuss influences on your current perspective or the views you articulated earlier. Make each point as clear and readable as possible. This second essay will be scored with the same rubric applied to Reflection 1.
Community Service Reflection
Length: 800-1000 words
Due Date: March 2012
As you know your community service during the first year constitutes an important source of discovery and self-evalutation. Your interactions with the organization you chose constitute important moments for examining the values of the community and your own personal ethics.
Compose a reflective essay about your community service experience this year and the new understandings you have derived from it. Include an assessment of the mission of the agency where you volunteered, how your service helped to fulfill the agency's mission, what you hoped to learn from the experience (from your Community Learning Agreement), and the extend to which your learning goals were achieved. Also, describe your current understanding of how social change occurs, using your agency's work as an example, if you choose. Finally, if you were directing the agency, describe how you might improve the way it functions. Examine the actions you would take as such a leader - and how those actions relate to your experience and observation.
You will be evaluated on your ability to analyze your experience and present specifics about your own goals and the potential achievements of the agency you worked for. At the same time, good critical thinking and writing depends upon a clear, direct, and concrete use of language.
The First Year Writing Portfolio Assignment
Due Date: To Be Announced
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Community Service Reflection
