This program has allowed me to do that. Service-learning courses provide the experience, knowledge and skills that make college graduates more marketable in the helping professions. These courses allow students to interact with a diverse group of individuals with special needs, build and put into practice communication and problem solving skills, and take psychology out of the text book into your own interactions with real people in structured and supportive environments. You will gain an appreciation of community needs and assets, a deeper understanding of yourself, and an awareness of career options. This course is open to students with a sophomore standing or higher.
Course work focuses on urban youth and the effects of mentoring.
Students meet weekly with the children at the school and participate in one social activity a month. This 6 credit, two semester cross-listed course provides an opportunity to mentor and tutor youth involved with the legal system. The course is open to students with a junior standing or higher. Course work focuses on at-risk youth and the court system. Through a collaboration with the Virginia Department of Correctional Education, Project ACE places tutors in area juvenile correctional center schools.