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Note: This assignment is
potentially worth 7.5% of your final grade. Essentially it is an opportunity
for you to add 75 points! So, think of it as an opportunity to add 10-20 points
to each exam or 5-7 points to every quiz. The overall course grade is comprised
of 1000...so this pluses you up, potentially, over half a letter grade.
Purpose
For this project, you are
going to be engaging in a process that educators call service-learning.
According to the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, service learning is
“a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service
with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic
responsibility, and strengthen communities.” In this project, then, you will be
making a meaningful contribution to the important role that our community plays
in preserving history. This hands-on learning experience will demonstrate that
history isn’t dead, and we can all play a part in its preservation.
Let’s get started.
Task
Part 1: Meaningful Community
Service
Due to time and the
situation we face this semester due to the ongoing COVID crisis, we will limit
options to those listed below and obviously interaction with the
community (if you so choose) could be pursued at a future date, after class is
completed, and once social distancing permits. However, this extra credit
project gets you thinking about history in your area (or state) and potential
to engage the community. Choose one of the following activities to
complete by Saturday, October 9. These will be submitted under assessments via
Assignments tab:
Part 2: Reflection
Write a short 3-paragraph
(max one page) reflection of your experience. In
the FIRST paragraph, explain what you could do in the
community. In the SECOND paragraph, describe how your
letter/article could contribute to the preservation of the historical event,
place. And in the THIRD (final) paragraph, describe
how this experience altered your understanding of history and
the role that we (as a community) play in making and preserving history.
No citations are necessary
for this assignment.
Criteria for Success
Again, this is strictly
optional but gives you a chance to: 1. contemplate the place of history in your
community/state 2. earn extra credit!
*** DISCLOSURE
The writer who takes the job
needs to communicate with me which activity they can execute successfully for
this assignment.
History Project- Meaningful
Community Service
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
Course
Professor’s Name
Date
Part 1: Meaningful Community Service
Community is always at the center stage in the
promotion, preservation, or degradation of historical sites within the
community. A community has the choice of either building or ruining what they
have. There are various ways in which the community can promote tourism and its
historical sites. Some of the critical ways in which this can be achieved
include giving incentives and rehabilitation.
Historic sites and tourists' centers preservation of either
building and other structures, archeological sites, neighborhoods, landscapes,
and other historic assets can serve right in the understanding of a community's
pride in its rich history as well as bringing economic gains and other
benefits. It is therefore important for the community to promote its historic
sites by either preservation, rehabilitation, and giving incentives to
visitors.
Rehabilitation is a very good way of preserving the
restoration of a derelict or neglected historic site or property. Rehabilitation
means that there is the possibility of reusing again a historic property that
seemed abandoned. Rehabilitation is important for the retention of a historical
element. Restoration and preservation are more likely to come along with a
heritage tourism campaign or neighborhood renewal effort.
Incentives are another way in which a community can encourage promotion, preservation, and rehabilitation. Incentives are important as they help in offsetting some of the costs that are associated with visiting historical sites as domestic tourists. When the costs of touring historic sites are subsidized as a form of incentive, it becomes affordable, and many people can now afford to visit and generate an income for its preservation activities. They can also offer a historic preservation curriculum in schools. Historic sites promotion can also be achieved through the introduction of a curriculum in schools...
