Bimonthly discussion groups will help students process and learn from their experiences. Students will provide a needed service. These programs depend on volunteers to help them supervise and provide positive experiences for troubled children. Service is content related. Service Learning will provide students with the opportunity to observe some of the emotional and behavioral problems discussed in class.
Class provides students with structured opportunities for learning through service.
Students will be required to attend bimonthly discussion groups to process their experiences as volunteers. Students will be asked to write a paper focusing on how the experience has contributed to their personal and intellectual development. This paper will be graded and will count toward their final grade. Also, volunteer coordinators will be asked to evaluate each students functioning as a volunteer. Each of the agencies in which service learning students will be placed have volunteer coordinators who will be supervising student activities and will provide feedback to the instructor and teaching assistant throughout the quarter.