2023-2024 Academic Catalog 
    
    Nov 23, 2024  
2023-2024 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SERV 100 - Introduction to Service-Learning

1 CR
This course examines service in the local community and its connection to diverse disciplines. The major objective of this class is the practical application of concepts being learned in college disciplines. Students practice and apply concepts while developing citizenship, social responsibility skills, and an understanding of working with diverse populations. The course requires students to participate in a fifteen-hour community based service-learning project, related to a discipline(s) they are studying in a college class and to complement their community work with written and oral reflections.

Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
Course Learning Outcomes:
  1. Demonstrate civic engagement in a local community organization.
  2. Acquire leadership skills with community members and volunteers at an advanced level defined by service-learning principles.
  3. Evaluate the service-learning project based on personal goals and service-learning objectives.
  4. Demonstrate support for diverse and vulnerable populations through service-learning.
  5. Explain the Strength-Quest model at an introductory level.