Service Learning

Students

Are you interested in participating in service to your community?  Do you want to make a difference in community issues? Service Learning is a great way to do this. 

As a Service Learning student, you have two important roles: doer and learner.  As a doer, you participate in service projects or activities that meet the priorities of our community partners, such as tutoring students or developing lesson plans for local high schools.  Your effectiveness as a doer is rooted in your capacity to learn about and from the community.  This involves engaging in critical reflective practices that serve to deepen your learning as well as enhance your ability to think critically about pressing community issues. 
Service learning can help you:

• enrich  your academic learning
• learn more about yourself
• strengthen your interpersonal and leadership skills
• improve your critical thinking and writing skills
• clarify your education and career goals
• enhance your sense of societal/civic responsibility
• connect with other students, faculty, and staff.

To learn more about Service Learning courses in the Faculty of Arts, see Courses.