Reflection Assignment

Assignment: This assignment has two parts.

· Reflection Paper: answer all 3 of the prompt below. Engage critically with the prompt, clearly articulating your experiences and plans. Back them up with concrete examples.

· Visual representation of the ideas of expressed in your paper: you can do this a number of different ways.

Format:

· Reflection paper: Two to three page paper, no fewer than 600 words.

· Visual representation: You have a lot of freedom here. You can make a poster, powerpoint, annotated photo journal, prezi, info graphic or simply design a one-pager digitally or by hand.

Tools to use:

· Reflection paper: Draw on in-class activities, direct service experience, pre-Drexel experiences and your personal values to inform your paper. You are welcome to use academic sources. You must use concrete examples for demonstrate your argument.

· Visual representation: You could use tools powerpoint or prezi for presentations, Picktochart or infogr.am for info graphics or any other tools. If you use someone else’s images, you must cite your sources. This will help you share your ideas with your classmates in the final session.

Submission: upload document through BBLearn, under the “Assignments” tab. If you did a physical project for the visual, please upload a photo. Otherwise, upload a file with the visual either with the reflection or as a separate document.

Grading: Grades will be based on creativity, effort, use of concrete examples from life, class, & service, and the complexity of the ideas included.

REFLECTION PAPER PROMPT: Develop Your Civic Pathway- address all three prompts

1. Foundation and past experience

· Identify the individuals and past experience that have most informed your values.

· How have these people and experiences influenced how you participate in your community?

2. Time at Drexel

· Through this course, you were exposed to many different examples of what civic engagement can look like. Keeping these examples in mind, what will civic engagement look like for you during your time here at Drexel?

· During your time at Drexel, how will you contribute to university’s goal “to become to the most civically engaged university in the United States”?

3. Professional and personal goals, mapping out your future

· What social issue/s do you want to be involved in after your time at Drexel? What sort of impact do you hope to have? Will your impact be local, regional, national or international?

· What is the public purpose of your future profession? How might someone in your future profession be engaged in public problem-solving to improve the community s/he is a part of?

VISUAL REPRESENTATION Directions:

· Be creative in representing in your ideas visually. This visual representation shouldn’t require additional explanation, but should stand alone as a representation of your ideas.

· Clearly map out the three phases discussed in your reflection paper.