A vital component of the Jepson experience is hands-on learning. Leadership Studies majors are required to complete both a service learning project and an internship.
Minors complete a service learning project.
Service learning, as a form of experiential education, is a key to the formation of ethical and imaginative leaders. It offers to students an explicit perspective on leadership as service in a variety of organizational settings. Service learning is widely recognized as a key component of the Leadership Studies curriculum, because service is understood as crucial to good leadership. That students, preferably, work off campus and among people new and unfamiliar. If conducted during Spring break, this work may be done in another locality-including a student's hometown.