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May 12, 2024
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2015-2016 HillBook (Class of 2019) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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LC 338 - Learning Community: Making America’s Future: The Politics and Practice of Working with Urban YouthThree Credits
Year-Long Learning Community
This LC introduces students to best practices and theories of mentoring youth and then provides students hands-on opportunities to apply them through a yearlong mentoring project through Coaching 4 Change, an exciting program created by Stonehill graduate Marquis Taylor ‘05 to help Brockton High School students develop their own mentoring skills to coach elementary school youth and run local basketball leagues. As Stonehill students work with Coaching 4 Change, they will gain first-hand knowledge of the field of youth leadership development, placing this important work in the context of American youth’s experience with urban politics, culture, and struggle.
Corequisite(s): Corequisite(s): Students must also take AMS 320 Topic: City Kids: Youth, Politics, and Identity in Urban America and CRM 295 - Topics in Criminology as part of this Learning Community.
This Learning Community will run as a year-long LC with academic and youth mentoring components scheduled throughout the entire academic year. An additional 2 ½ mentoring hours per week will also be arranged with the instructor.
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