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Values in Social Services and Health Care

Brief Course Description

This course has a dual purpose. Its broadest mission is to give perspective and offer reflection on your service experiences to date and then to help you discern the answer to the question, "What's next?"

We will try to accomplish this through readings, lectures, discussions, and written assignments. Together we will pursue some of the questions raised by the facts, philosophies, and statements listed at right. And we hope to do much more.

Among the objectives for Values in Social Services and Health Care are:

to communicate an understanding of the social services and health care delivery system;

to explore ethical problems and challenges related to the allocations of limited resources, regulations, economic injustice, community conflicts and the responsibility for the dependent person;

to consider strategies for effecting positive changes in the social service and health care system.

Course Procedures

The class meets on Thursday afternoons from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. for lectures and from 6:15 to 7:00 for discussion groups. The instructor and teaching assistants lead discussion groups. The instructor determines final grading.

"But you know, there are no children here. They've seen too much to be children." LaJoe Rivers There are No Children Here

"Homelessness in America begins at home." Kathleen Hirsch Songs from the Alley

"I never thought I would be the other." Dennis Heaphy

"Help them all and let God sort it out." Jim Greene

"We can degrade people by caring for them; and we can degrade people by not caring for them." Steven Marcus Doing Good

"Is this too hard for you?" Brendan Downes BC Class of 2007 Refuge Camp, Southern Sudan

"The service requirement delivered me to the place but my heart grew while I was there." Toni Ann Kruse BC Class of 2004

Boston College ? PL 23301 ? Fall 2011 ? Thursdays 4:30 ? 7:00 p.m. ? Carney Hall Room 106 David W. Manzo, Lecturer

(617) 719-1246 (Cell) ? e-mail: manzo@bc.edu Teaching Assistants:

Group A ? Nicholas Aigner and Florence Candel (Carney 106) Group B ? Stephen Pope and Rebecca Sassower (Carney 002)

Texts

There are No Children Here ? Alex Kotlowitz Songs from the Alley ? Kathleen Hirsch The Cathedral Within ? Billy Shore Doing Good ? Willard Gaylin et al

The Moral Measure of the Economy ? Chuck Collins and Mary Wright Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America ?

Paul Tough Doing the Truth in Love (Selected Reading) ? Michael Himes (On Reserve)

Grading

PULSE Service Commitment 8 Hours Per Week

40% - Field Placement 20% - Two Work Book Assignments 10% - Weekly Journal 10% - Class Participation and Discussion Group 20% - Final Paper and Presentation

4Boston or Other Service Commitment 4 Hours Per Week

20% - Field Placement 30% - Two Work Book Assignments 10% - Weekly Journal 10% - Class Participation and Discussion Group 30% - Final Paper and Presentation

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Grading Continued

PULSE Students (Option A) will participate in an approved PULSE field project. You will keep a weekly journal of your project and course involvement, incorporating readings, lectures, and field experience. Journal entries are to be e-mailed to your discussion group leader with a copy to me at manzo@bc.edu by midnight on the Sunday prior to each discussion group. Journal entries cannot be made up at a later date.

In addition, you will write an 8 - 10 page paper, due at the beginning of the final class, addressing a critical issue that you have faced at your placement. Please meet with me before the beginning of November for approval of your topic. In addition, you will present the final paper in a 7 to 10 minute presentation to your discussion group near the end of the semester.

4Boston or Other Service Commitment (Option B) will participate in an approved 4 hour per week field placement. You will keep a weekly journal of your project and course involvement, incorporating readings, lectures, and field experience. Journal entries are to be e-mailed to your discussion group leader with a copy to me at manzo@bc.edu by midnight on the Sunday prior to each discussion group. Journal entries cannot be made up at a later date.

In addition, you will write a 20-page paper, due at the beginning of the final class, addressing a critical issue that you have faced at your placement. Please meet with me before the beginning of November for approval of your topic. In addition, you will present the final paper in a 7 to 10 minute presentation to your discussion group near

About Journals

All students must keep a weekly journal. Your journal gives you the opportunity for a written dialogue about your perceptions, feelings, questions, obstacles, and successes regarding your placement, the readings, the lectures, etc. Journals should be at last 500 words in length.

During the first 2 to 3 weeks of the semester, as you begin the process of choosing a placement, journal entries should include your reflections on the placement process. What brought you to a particular placement? What was your tour like? How did you feel? Your journal entries during this period should also include reflections on the readings

and lectures. Try to tie your classroom experience to your placement experience or explore why the relationship is challenging.

By the end of September you should be working at your placement. Continue your weekly journal. Make your entries on a regular basis. Some of the most insightful entries are written during the first hours after you leave your placement. Pay attention to how your feelings and perceptions change during the semester. How have your relationships evolved? What obstacles are you encountering? What is the neighborhood like? What about the people you encounter at your placement? How do the readings, films or lectures relate to your placement?

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Two Memoradium Assignments

You will complete two memorandium assignments this semester. For each assignment you will be asked to analyze a situation confronting a non-profit organization. Each assignment will demand that you use both classroom and external resources to write a tightly edited three-page memorandum.

Discussion Sections

Discussion Sections will be led by the instructor and the teaching assistants. In addition to lectures and readings, topics will be drawn from field placement involvement. I expect that you come to class with an understanding of the readings and the ability to enter into discussion.

Course Calendar and Reading Assignments

Date

Topic

Speakers

Required Readings

September 8, Introduction 2011

David Manzo

September 15, 2011

September 22, 2011

September 29, 2011

October 6, 2011

Civil Rights for Protected Populations of Students

Social Conflicts in American Society

Inner-City Adolescents, Gangs and Violence Prevention Public Service

John Verre, Asst. Supt. of Special Education, Boston Public Schools Dr. Timothy Callahan, President, Brandon Residential Treatment Center Reverend Raymond Hammond, Founder 10Point Coalition Harry Spence, Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Former Commissioner Massachusetts Department of Social Services

No Children Here Introduction - 145

No Children Here 146-217

No Children Here 218-End

Songs from the Alley ix-258

October 13, 2011

October 20, 2011

October 27, 2011

November 3, 2011

November 10, 2011

Community Health Issues

Health Care Issues for Underserved Populations and Reflections on Service and Accessibility Homelessness and Health Care Issues for the Homeless

No Class

What's Next: Reflections and Questions about Service

Anne Kane, RN, Ph.D, UMASS Medical and Terry Rooney, Social Policy Research Analyst, D'Youville Center for Social Justice Dennis Heaphy, Disability Advocate

Jim Greene, Commissioner, Boston Emergency Shelter Commission University has cancelled classes after 4 PM due to the football game on campus. David Manzo

Songs from the Alley 259-End Doing Good Gaylin ix-38

Whatever It Takes 1-154

Whatever It Takes 155-End (First Memorandum Assignment Due) Although class is cancelled, please read the following: The Cathedral Within 1-End Doing Good Marcus 41-66 Doing the Truth in Love (On Reserve, O'Neill Library) Pages 50 - 62

3 Key Questions: What brings you joy? What are you good at? What does the world need you to be? View all 3 videos at

Discussion Group Reflections on What's Next for Students

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