SERVICE LEARNING
Service Learning connects the classroom with the community, enabling students to apply knowledge to real world issues and become local and global citizens striving for the common good.聽
Students integrate theoretical knowledge from the classroom with hands-on experiential learning in underserved communities. Through course content, readings, class discussions, written assignments, and a service placement, students will become critically aware of the social narratives, policies and practices that hurt or harm the people we serve.聽Students use that critical and constructive thinking to assist with real world solutions that promote the common good.
WHY SERVICE LEARNING?
Service Learning is hands-on work in the community that allows students to continually reflect and act toward making change, all while empowering self-directed lifelong learning.
Service Learning requires students to engage on a deeper, more significant level where they can reflect on their moral and ethical responses and then use that knowledge to help make a difference.
Service Learning in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences directly connects with the University mission. provides experiential opportunities in the community, where students will find a common humanity through the work they do while growing spiritually through a new understanding of Catholic Social Teaching.
