Service Learning for Students

Why Service Learning?

As a service learning student, you will have the opportunity to serve a wide range of communities while gaining real-world experiences, career insights, and meaningful opportunities for personal and professional development.

Students who enroll in service–learning courses:

• Engage directly with communities
• Apply classroom learning
• Gain valuable hands-on experience
• Build skills that both employers and graduate schools expect
• Earn a special transcript notation for classes

Leadership:

Engaging in service learning courses demonstrates initiative and a strong commitment to upholding your personal values. Students learn to improve their problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, and decision making skills based on these values.

Collaboration:

Students engage in the kind of collaborative work that can be difficult to simulate in a traditional classroom setting. Students collaborate with multiple stakeholders who contribute to a diverse set of skills and talents to develop creative solutions to complex problems.

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making:

Service learning students strengthen their critical thinking and problem solving skills to make informed decisions in the real world. Students apply critical thinking by analyzing course content, leveraging personal observations and reflections, and communicating with multiple project stakeholders to get things done.

Find a Service Learning Course!

Specific classes in the course catalog are identified as having a Service Learning component. Students can search for service learning courses in the online class schedule. Select the semester for which you would like to register. Select Advanced Search and in the Attribute field start typing Service Learning, which will auto-populate the option. Once Service Learning is selected, the courses with the designation will be listed.

If you have question, feel free to email [email protected].