SOC 1511 - SERVICE-LEARNING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This service-learning course combines a structured curriculum and extensive partnership with a local community-based organization to offer tangible community service. Here, student community service includes direct engagement as well as a research-based action plan addressing a specific challenge or goal identified by a community-based organization. . Student service-learning will include exploring the proximate and ultimate drivers of the organizations chosen challenge, and the organizations infrastructure, resources, limitations and possibilities for reducing barriers to achieving the organizations self-identified goals. In concert, coursework probes the role of community-based organizations in both local and global contexts, common challenges of community-based organizations in defining and implementing their goals, the role of service-learning in addressing these issues, and effective ways for students to help them achieve their mission, vision, and goals. Coursework also guides the students service-learning experience by helping students develop sound international service ethics, provide tools to investigate solutions to common development issues, aid in data analysis and presentation, and provide best practices to illustrate findings and deliver approved joint recommendations orally and in writing. Throughout, students use service-learning as a means to expand their global awareness and understanding, explore shared aspirations for social justice, and develop skills to work with others to effect positive change.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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