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"I honestly expected to be working with angry, disrepectful kids who did not care to read, or work with me period. My very first tutoring session changed my mind and greatly impacted my life." UOLI Student Volunteer, Lane County Detention Center |
The University of Oregon Literacy Initiative (UOLI) offers undergraduate and graduate students the chance to combine English classes with literacy tutoring in the community. Since 1998 UOLI has been the service learning component of the UO English Department curriculum. Students have their choice of a broad range of internship sites, including K-12 schools, the Lane County Detention Center, Nearby Nature, SMART, the Boys and Girls Club, and Womenspace.
The Literacy Initiative combines theory and practice, uniting volunteer work with formal classroom instruction in literacy theory and teen and children's literature. Its classes require a co-requisite literacy internship of 30-90 hours at a K-12 school or non-profit agency. Students receive volunteer training and supervision at their sites, and they may continue the same internship if they take both classes. We welcome teachers and other community members in these classes.
The professors, Suzanne Clark and Elizabeth Wheeler, have research and
professional backgrounds in literacy theory, teacher training, tutoring
at-risk youth, and multicultural literature. In 1999 UOLI received a $10,000
grant from the University of Oregon Process for Change.
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English
410/510: Theories of Literacy |
English 399: Teen and Children's
Literature |
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| This course fulfills the Theory requirement for the English major. | This course counts as elective credit for the English major. | |
| Graduate students are welcome to register at the 600-level by arrangement with the professor. |
Internship Coordinator: Leslie Wells
ldwells@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Questions/comments about this website, email literate@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Many thanks to University of Oregon's Wired Humanities Project for their technical and aesthetic assistance.