Partnership with Lincoln International High School
Lincoln International High School is a charter school in downtown Minneapolis designed as a private school for international students, particularly for students who can benefit from an English immersion curriculum with native-language support. Founded in 1997, it now serves more than 200 students from around the world, most of whom are refugees and immigrants from Africa and Latin America.
St. Thomas students from a number of disciplines—English, Theology, Justice and Peace Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Modern and Classical Languages, Communication Studies, and Mathematics—have partnered with Lincoln students in their classrooms. Their activities have ranged from one-on-one tutoring, to the development of health and wellness information, to the creation of poetry, plays, and mythologies.
While learning about family life, dating rituals, schooling, holidays, and religious customs in Ethiopia, Somalia, Ecuador, and Mexico, to name just a few of the countries from which Lincoln students have come, St. Thomas students share their own experiences as college students and Americans. The semester ends with a familiar rite of the college student: lunch in the cafeteria.
For more information about the partnership with Lincoln International High School, please contact Dr. Amy Muse, Faculty Director for Service-Learning. See below also for sample writing and academic journal assignments and a syllabus from Dr. Muse's English 111 course.
English 111 Academic Journal Assignments
English 111 Samle Writing Assignment
UST and Lincoln students in costume to perform their collaboratively written mythology.
Lunch in the cafeteria.
