Service Learning

Catalog description

Students apply their clinical knowledge and engage in health promotion and wellness activities while participating in a service-learning experience within their community. Over the course of the semester, students partake in and reflect upon a 45-hour minimum service project that affects a positive change in the community and/or the profession. Service projects are arranged and approved by faculty. Prior to the experience students explore concepts such as cultural competence and discuss the importance, value and goals of the experience, and how this experience meets current societal needs within the physical therapy profession and the community served. During the experience, the students provide services supervised by the faculty, clinicians or program leaders.