Service Learning through Civic Engagement

Catalog description

This class focuses on academic service learning through Civic Engagement. Academic service learning is a high impact form of pedagogy that integrates community-based service or outreach with classroom instruction to enhance both student learning and promote values of constructive civic engagement. This project-based class is designed to help make linkages between the academic world and the community by providing students with a supervised experience implementing service activities to meet an identified community need. Students learn about the world and the importance of their involvement in working with vulnerable, marginalized populations and the barriers these populations experience. Such barriers are legal, historical, related to discrimination and biases, misinformation, and etc. From explorations of root causes of problems and the development of objectives to the challenges of implementation and assessment, students will be encouraged to think more critically about social problems and the complexity of identifying lasting solutions.