The will be an exercise of critical reflection upon the student’s experiential learning, readings, online discussions, research, quizzes, and journal work. Include a bibliography at the end of the critical reflection, which should be 5-6 pages.
FINAL CRITICAL REFLECTION IS THE VINCENTIAN QUESTION:
What must be done? On a personal, organizational, and societal level, how should we respond to homelessness?
Please use at least 6 sources. Be sure to dedicate and clearly label two pages to each of your responses: your personal response; your organizational response; and your societal response.
I. (“I”) – How should I respond to homelessness? For your personal response, please be sure to include:
- If experienced, include any moment or point (a particular video, a reading, a classmate’s post, etc.) this past quarter when you noticed a change in you and/or a change in your previous understanding of homelessness.
- How has, if at all, your experience in this class connected you to your spiritual or interior self?
- How, if at all, have I seen spirituality and homelessness connected through the experience of this course?
- What must I do about homelessness? What realistic commitment(s) can I make?
II. (“You”) – What must you (a selected organization) do? Select an organizational example below to respond from this “you” perspective. Examples of organizational response include (not limited to):
- A School/Institution of Higher Education
- A Church/Faith Community
- A Business
- A Civic Organization
Please address the questions below to your organizational response: What should be done? How should it be done? When should it be done? What resources will be necessary for it to be done well? Where will the resources come from? Who should do it?
So, for example, if I chose my place of worship, or my daughter’s school, or Dominican University, or my internship organization, or a company I worked for, I would respond to these highlighted questions above having done research about how that organizational example currently addresses homelessness, and, based on the question prompts above, how from your research and insight the organization should respond to homelessness. Be sure to begin with a baseline of research for your organizational example to what it already is doing, and build upon that existing response to homelessness with your what must be done analysis.
III. (“We”) – What must we (society) do? Choose one of the societal response options below:
- United States Policy Context/Approach (laws, funding, congressional bills, etc.)
- Please address policy at a local, state, and/or national level.
- Provide research into and a brief overview of a current policy example addressing homelessness at the local, state, and/or national level.
- What is your analysis of this policy in light of the question: What must society do about homelessness? Where is the policy addressing homelessness well and where does it fall short?
- What (more) must be done to address homelessness at this level of policy you selected?
- Please address policy at a local, state, and/or national level.
- Another Country’s Policy Context/Approach
- Please choose a country
- Please address policy at a local, regional, and/or national level.
- Provide research into and a brief overview of a current policy example addressing homelessness at the local, regional, and/or national level.
- What is your analysis of this policy in light of the question: What must society do about homelessness? Where is the policy addressing homelessness well and where does it fall short?
- What (more) must be done to address homelessness at this level of policy you selected?
