Civic Engagement

Catalog description

This course provides students with opportunities to engage in community service with Deaf and hearing socially responsible and sustainability focused organizations. Some examples of service learning opportunities might include working with Rochester School for the Deaf to establish an edible schoolyard, Habitat for Humanity to help build low cost, energy efficient, sustainable homes or working with organizations such as Foodlink and Rochester Roots which partner with local farmers to provide people in need with healthy food and provide sustainably produced local food. Students will undertake a civic engagement project where their individual contributions will be amplified through purposeful involvement with local and global organizations. Students will research social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect individuals, local and global communities, and become actively involved in seeking, proposing, and acting on solutions to selected problems. Students will explore ways in which change is an individual and collective responsibility, driven by the interconnectivity of self, local community, and global society.