Phil 327: Service Learning Questions

Assignment One

Answer the following questions. Answers must be type-written (doubled-spaced). Approx. 2 pages.

(1) Where have you been placed?

(2) Have you met with the volunteer coordinator at your placement? Have you   

attended a volunteer orientation/training session? Elaborate.

(3) What is the mission of the agency in which you have been placed?

(4) Who are the clients served by the agency?

(5) What are some of the needs of the clients?

(6) What are some of the strategies the agency uses to address these needs (e.g., you may wish to discuss specific programs of the agency)?

(7) What are some of the challenges and issues the agency confronts in addressing the needs of their clients?

(8) How are the clients and/or the agency impacted by structural features of inequality (i.e., How are they impacted by "The Game"?). Explain

(9) What responsibilities do you have at your placement? Elaborate.

(10) How do you think that your service contributes to the overall good of the agency?

(11) Use an example of something that happened in your volunteer experience to elaborate something that you have learned.

Please submit to be electronically as an email attachment!!! tbettch@calstatela.edu