Community/Service Learning Opportunities

Community/service learning classes include a community based component that links course content to real-world settings. In addition to learning with professors and in classroom settings, students in these courses learn with a wide range of community people and organizations. At the same time students have the opportunity to apply their knowledge and abilities to the common good by engaging in areas such as completing research for the Office of Planning and Development, teaching math and science to middle school students, organizing public housing residents to address issues of safety and affordable housing and increasing the capacity of health clinics for uninsured residents. Students also develop a wide range of skills and values connected to learning in areas of democratic citizenship, political effectiveness, diversity, leadership, inter and intra personal interactions, and social responsibility. Approximately 38% of our students participate in the community/service learning opportunities. Some of the courses that have this component include:

Community/Service Learning Anthropology 234 - Ethnology of South America

Botany 207 - Seminar of Indigenous use of Rainforests

Community Action 201 - Public Policy & Social Ethics
Community Action 201A (PICA) - Holleran Center Community Learning Seminar
Study Abroad / Teach Abroad (SATA) 101 - SATA Rome

Economics 247 - Urban and Regional Economics
Economics 328 - Public Finance

Education 223 - Foundations of Modern Education
Education 300 - Teaching and Learning in the Content Area
Education 304 - Mathematics and Science in the Elementary School
Education 313 - Children's Literature
Education 341 - Teaching Reading and Writing

Hispanic Studies 228 - Proyecto Comunidad
Hispanic Studies 250, 251 - Hispanic Cultures

History 105 - An Introduction to the History of the U.S.

Human Development 111A - Intro to Human Development: Self, Language & Culture
Human Development 111B - Intro to Human Development: The Social World of Children and Families
Human Development 201 - Observational Methods
Human Development 204 - Children in Learning Environments
Human Development 225 - Individual Differences in Development
Human Development 302 - Social and Personal Development
Human Development 307 - Adolescent Development
Human Development 321 - Children & Families in a Multicultural Society
Human Development 325 - Life-span Human Development
Human Development 295,296,495,496 - Field Work

Mathematics 120, 220, 320 - Learning Practicum in Mathematics

Physical Education 130 - Theory of Coaching

Psychology 210 - Abnormal Psychology
Psychology 326 - Developmental Psychopathology
Psychology 441,442 - Practicum in Clinical & Community Psychology
Psychology 441A, 442A - Seminar in Clinical & Community Psychology

Geophysics / Environmental Studies - Various
Religious Studies 310 - Religions in New London

Sociology 264 - Urban Sociology
Sociology 364 - Urban Problems

Theater 217, 218 - Service Learning Practicum in Theater
Theater 295, 296 - Field Work

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