Section I:
Getting
Started
Introduction

Developing
Campus
Support

Tools

Next Steps

Section II:
Integrating
Service-
Learning
Introduction

1: Overview of
Service-Learning

2: Overview of
Instructional Design

3: Reflection

4: Assessing
Student Learning

5: Capacity-building

6: Civic Learning

7: Theme-based
Course Design

8: Completing
Design of Syllabus

9: Scholarship
of Teaching
and Learning

Section II: Chapter 7: Course Design Process

Chapter 7: Course Design Process

Chapters 3-6 of this Resource Guide discussed several of the central issues that you need to consider as building blocks for the design of your Jumpstart service-learning course: reflection, assessment, capacity-building, and civic learning. Chapters 7-8 will support you in pulling the thinking you have been doing in these earlier chapters together, through discussion of a process for course design in this Chapter and then a series of worksheets in the next Chapter.

Here we will examine a course design process that will allow you to achieve tight integration of Jumpstart service-learning into your course. This process begins with consideration of the high-level themes and/or learning goals on which your course is based and uses them to guide the articulation of specific learning objectives; these learning objectives provide a foundation for designing assignments / activities for your students (including, in some cases, reflection mechanisms) as well as an assessment strategy. As you move step by step through this course design process, you will determine concretely the role that Jumpstart service-learning plays in your course as well as how it is connected to the other components of the course.

Topics in this Chapter include:

• General model for course design – provides an overview of the process you will be using in this Chapter
  
  
• Step 1: Determine themes that focus your course content
  
  
• Step 2: Establish learning goals associated with each theme
  
  
• Step 3: Articulate learning objectives associated with each goal
  
  
• Step 4: Develop assignments and activities to accomplish each learning objective
  
  
• Step 5: Craft reflection prompts as needed to structure the assignments / activities
  
  
• Step 6: Design an assessment strategy for each learning objective
  
  
• Refine course design
  
  
• Completed course design table
  
  
• References

The Tool at the end of this chapter is a blank worksheet (table) on this course design process, which you can complete for your own course.

• Tool 1: Blank Course Design Worksheet