CSL: Reflection Instructions
Weight: 10% | Format: Essay | Length: ~500-600 words
Purpose: Reflections are a core part of your CSL experience. They ask you to slow down, observe closely, and think critically about what you are seeing and experiencing in your placement. Rather than simply describing what happened, reflections push you to connect your lived experience in the community to the psychological concepts and diversity science frameworks you are encountering in class. Over time, your reflections will become a record of your intellectual and personal growth throughout the placement.
Learning Objectives:
- Deepen your understanding of course concepts (textbook, journal articles, books, etc.) by applying them to real-world community contexts
- Develop critical thinking skills by analyzing your placement experiences through a diversity science lens
- Practice self-reflection by examining how your positionality and assumptions shape what you notice and how you interpret it
- Build the habit of connecting theory to practice in community-engaged settings
Requirements:
- Double-spaced, ~500-600 words with 12 pt font and 1 inch margins with date
- Link a course concept (textbook, journal articles, books, etc.) with your experiences in the placement. To do this:
- You must underline and/or bold your course concept (textbook, journal articles, books, etc.).
- Define and explain the concept in your own words.
- Link the concept to something that you observed or experienced in your placement. Describe a specific moment, interaction, or observation from your placement and reflect on what it revealed to you.
For example: What did this experience teach you that you could not have learned in a classroom? How does it deepen, complicate, or challenge your understanding of the communities your organization serves? Consider how your own positionality (your identities, assumptions, and prior experiences) may shape how you are interpreting the concept or the experience.
- Apply the experience to psychological science: Choose one of the following prompts to respond to:
- Critique the research: How does your experience support, complicate, or challenge existing psychological research or theories? Does what you observed align with what the literature says about this population or issue?
- Identify the gaps: Does your placement experience reveal something that psychological science has overlooked, misrepresented, or failed to address about this community?
- Implications for practice: Based on what you experienced, what would more community-relevant, ethical, or inclusive psychological research or practice look like?
Submission:
You will complete 5 reflections across your placement period.
Reflections can be submitted in PDF format on Canvas by 11:59 pm each Friday until June 10th at 11:59pm.
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