If appropriate, a third activity will be offered. It is predicated upon prior development of community design concepts to promote improved proximity relationships within new and existing parts of the urban fabric - a problem on which Envision Utah is currently focusing. Student teams will work with community organizations like the Assist Community Design Center, Future Moves and any of several community councils, municipal planning departments and urban redevelopment agencies. Students will help define how proximity relationships can be improved at specific sites and neighborhoods within the region where improved accessibility would stimulate new and varied urban activity patterns. Below I hope to demonstrate how a course directed toward in the first activity will meet the nine criteria for service-learning designation is several specific ways.
Students provide a needed service.
Photographic documentation, designs, illustrations and charts pertaining to the issue of our urban automobile wilderness will help both Future Moves and the larger community confront a pressing problem and consider what it might well do about it. Service experience relates to the course's subject matter. Readings and class exercises shown on the attached syllabus relate directly to the proposed service learning activities. Class activities stimulate reflection upon the service learning experience and the course's subject matter. The course schedule provides an opportunity for small group discussion of this issue with reports made by each group to the class at large.