What is service learning?
Service learning is a way for you to gain direct experience in a subject area by taking a service-learning class where you work on the content, ideas, and issues discussed in class through working at a community organization for a couple hours per week. With the support of your instructor, you build a real relationship with a community organization. That relationship is reciprocal: you help the organization meet its goals, and the organization gives you the opportunity to develop professional skills and contacts while applying your academic work to real-world situations.
This site is a resource and information base for students, faculty, community partners, local governments, and anyone else who is working to enhance connections between programs at the College of Design and the communities in which we live and work.
Take service learning a step further!
Through the newly launched Community Engagement Scholars Program, you can put your academic skills into practice for the betterment of the community. As a way to purposefully engage students in service learning and educate students for citizenship, the University now offers a certificate program for students who participate in community activities through the program. This program allows students to do service learning work under the guidance of program advisers, as well as do written reflection exercises about their participation in order to maximize their experience.
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