82-781 Tutoring for Community Outreach
6–9 units, Carnegie Mellon University
This course enables students to participate in a community outreach program in the Pittsburgh Public Schools with either elementary school, middle school, or high school students, and, depending on the site, foster their studies of Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish or ESL. The elementary school experience will involve regular visits, mentoring, and tutoring at school sites in the East End of Pittsburgh. The middle school experience provides opportunity for tutoring in Japanese, French, or Spanish at Barack Obama Academy of International Studies. The high school or middle school experience invites advanced students, majors, or minors in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, or Spanish to work with language students and teachers at local schools. During the early weeks of the semester, students will meet to arrange their community outreach activities and prepare for their experience. Depending on the number of units to be earned, students will spend a certain number of hours per week engaged in some of the following activities attending and participating in the individual and group meetings, working in the schools four to six hours per week, reading and preparing for their volunteer activities, keeping a journal of their experiences and responses to course readings, writing a paper or completing a project at the end of the term that reflects experiences. The final course grade will be based on the students participation at the school site and fulfillment of the plan set at the beginning of the semester, participation in weekly oncampus discussions, weekly journal submissions, and final synthesis project. Prerequisites Permission of the faculty liaison plus completion of an information sheet available in the Department of Modern Languages, and clearance forms available through Carnegie Mellon Human Resources.
Prerequisites: none listed
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