Service Learning & Community Engagement
Service Learning and Community Engagement (SLCE) is a way of teaching that allows students apply course content to help impact real world issues through participatory partnership with community agencies. Service Learning and Community Engagement is rooted in reciprocity, community action and autonomy, and has three cornerstones:
- Academic Integrity (Apply Course Content)
- Student Ownership (students make meaningful choices)
- Apprentice Citizenship (address pressing issues identified with the help of community partners)
The SLCE fellowship program aims to help faculty develop and implement a service-learning course. Fellows will spend one semester learning about best practices in service-learning pedagogy through attending four workshops. The following semester, faculty will implement their course and attend one additional follow up workshop. All fellows receive professional development and coaching as well as concrete materials to help them modify their course to a service-learning approach. Additionally, the program provide faculty with assessment tools and data from their course so that they can engage in scholarship activities, should they choose to. For their efforts, all faculty receive $1,000 stipend.
Service Learning Courses
The Courses can vary from year to year, here are some examples:
- REL140
- GPS210
- GPS310
- REL330
- ED353
- PSY311
- W'Engage
White Papers derived from SLCEs:
- Reflections on Service-Learning in Tax During a Pandemic Period
- Silver Linings: The Sociology of Aging
- Food for Thought: Understanding Food Security on Wingate's Campus
- How a Non-Profit Adds to the Local Economy
- Service Learning in Psychology
- Integrating Energy Data into the Classroom
- Aging in Action
- Service Learning in ACCT 426
- Pushing Back: Gender-Based Violence in Society
- The Greatest of These is Love: A SLCE Course
- Bringing the Global Local
- To Hume it May Concern - Ethics as a SLCE Course
- Service Learning in the Digital Age