Other resources

• Academic credit for community work
• Creating PSAs for college radio stations (in process)

Curriculum Inventory

This section offers current curriculum packages for distribution. There is no fee to use these products; however, we request that you retain notice of the OCA copyright in the original and all modified or derived versions.

Curricula that have been tested in the classroom will indicate the place and year testing took place. You may modify curricula as necessary to meet local requirements, current events, and the needs and interests of participants.

Each curriculum package consists of four components:

a) a course description that can be used to publicize the course,

b) a teaching package designed to guide the discussion leader (includes evaluation forms for participants and the leader),

c) the syllabus, which is a session-by-session sequence of the readings, discussion questions, and assignments for participants in the course, and

d) a set of the required readings, subject to copyright restrictions (other readings may be obtained from a library or by purchase, such as from Amazon.com).

You may download any or all course elements (missing elements are coming soon). Since all OCA courses are dynamic, check back often to see if any course elements have been updated.

To create your own course curriculum for distribution through OCA, please download and use this syllabus template. Then email a copy to us for review.

"Freedom and Responsibility: The Millennium Development Goals and Opportunities for Action," 20 hours, 10 weeks, (2004). Tested: Lasell Village, 2004.

• Description

• Teaching package
  Teaching note
  Moderator evaluation form
  Participant evaluation form

• Syllabus package
  Syllabus
  Solicitation letter

• Readings
  Volunteerism and the MDGs
  IYV 2001:Volunteers' support to the MDGs
  US Framework Speech
  Voluntary Action by Older Persons
  Bono, "Because we can, we must"

Course topics under development

• Journalism and truth in the media
• Global demographic trends
• Youth employment in developing countries
• Prejudice and diversity in your community
• Social entrepreneurship
• Engaging disengaged electorates
• Climate change and renewable energy
• Immigration and assimilation in the community
• Global economics and globalization