• • osted on: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:52:00 PM CDT Question: How do I use the assigned course materials to support my Service Learning Project? (SLP) One of the goals of the Kirkpatrick Signature Series is to inform students so that they can become engaged citizens. Since the American people provide the “consent of the governed,” our nation, its values, behaviors, and morality, are a mirror reflection of the American people (Jefferson, 1776). Throughout the course student’s read articles which explore the following equation: 1.) Rights + Duties (laws) + Obligations (Norms) = Engaged Citizenship. 2.) Engaged citizens know that only they can create and nurture a society which honors the Social Contract for all members of society and creates a better world. Very few have the ability to change the world on a national or international scale. We learn about those that do in history courses (Jefferson, King, Havel, Kyi, etc…). For most of us, the change we are able to affect is ourselves, our family, friends and co-workers. But make no mistake; society is a mirror reflection of the world we have created. If you think, as most Bellevue University students think, that America is a less moral society today than it was 25 years ago, it is because of the choices, behaviors and actions each of us has taken or tolerated (Moynihan, 1993). As we learn from ‘Hyperdemocracy,’ some Americans believe that despite their individual “pathological cynicism” toward government, society and each other, that somehow America will “automatically right itself, presumably through the efforts of other people who do not share their cynicism” (Heclo, 1999). In ‘Bowling Alone’ we learn that individualism causes a corrosive effect on the social capital (Putnam, 1995). The effect of radical individualism is also expressed in articles Bellah, Franck and Gregg. The SLP is an exercise which demonstrates how the individual chooses to engage society, create good, and effect change. In the early weeks of the course we explore ideas such as; justice, truth, dissent, rights, morality, civic membership, individualism, and equality. Students will want to re-visit these early articles and ideas and see how these ideas, when coupled with the actions that a free individual chooses, creates the better world we aspire towards. Posted by: Rick Galusha Posted to: LA400_LA410_LA420-1104 American Vision and Values (2175-DD) • Assignment Due Dates Posted on: Monday, February 13, 2017 1:25:00 PM CST February 23, 2017 KSS Schematic.xlsx Assignment Dues Dates C1P2 Sunday February