At Emory, learning is a moral responsibility. Students retain and understand knowledge much better. According to Patterson, they are developing lists of placement partners in the external community who understand the academic applications of the program. TPL courses are also connected to faculty research. That doesn't take away from research.
Social problems are multidisciplinary.
These studies seem to confirm the experiences of Emory faculty. Through site visits and the incorporation of service learning, she discovered it could. While Patterson warns that TPL is not for every class, professors have brainstormed on ways the theory can be applied to individual courses with great success. It gives them a chance to chew on it. Agnew, who uses a series of activities through TPL that add up to an exam grade for students, found the technique useful for personal application in his class of 120 students.