Medicine in Medieval West
Service learning is optional for this course.
TIME COMMITMENT: 15 hours
Transportation Time Credit
Taking more than one service learning class?
KEEP TRACK OF YOUR TIME:
To record Service Learning time you must use the digital timesheet to log and document your service learning activity. This includes time you spend at or online with the service site, researching, gathering information, meeting with fellow students or agency representatives, and executing aspects of your service learning. Time should be recorded daily to log the start and end of each service assignment. Completed time logs are due twice per semester at midterm, October 7, and by the final day of class, December 4 for review and verification. Any time submitted after these dates will not be considered for service learning credit. If you have any problems or questions, please reach out right away to ttjasper@loyno.edu.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
By working with an organization that supports the health and wellness of members of our community—learning how, why, and to whom their organization provides support—students will consider how medical ideas and practices can both create and challenge social disparities; they will then draw on their service-learning experience and historical examples studied in class to compare the ways that medieval and modern medicine structure our communities.
PRE-APPROVED Service Learning placements:
Edible Schoolyard New Orleans
Farming NOLA
Hagar's House
Home is Here NOLA
Luke's House Clinic
Metro Centers for Community Advocacy
Poydras Home
Project Lazarus
Recirculating Farms
The First 72+
HOW TO GET STARTED?
- Watch the OCELTS "Getting Started with Service Learning" video to understand the SL process.
- Choose at least two agencies to meet with at the SERVE fair.
- Use the How to Excel in Service Learning worksheet to determine your availability for service.
- Secure your placement on time. Submit your acceptance form before the deadline.
- Document all hours (start and end of each service task) using the service learning timesheet. OCELTS regularly monitors time logs and verifies hours with your site twice per semester.
- Know that your agency supervisor will submit a performance evaluation on your work at the end of the semester. This evaluation will go to your professor and be incorporated into your class grade.