Service Learning

Service learning is a pedagogy that combines volunteer service work with academic course work to help students better understand, engage with and learn from their communities - deepening their learning through reflection on their experiences of service.

A Service Learning experience is part of a course in which students apply course theory to real community issues. Students gain hands-on experience in the community (8-60 hours per quarter, depending on credits). Through assignments and class discussion, students reflect on their service, relate it to course theories, and discover how the course relates to their personal lives.

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Service Learning Class
EXPLR 295

Experiential Learning 295 is now available. This course is designed to assist students to develop a greater civic awareness and reflective understanding of what it means to be engaged in the life of their community.  Students will select a field or community service site, participate in an orientation and commit to a specific learning plan.  Hours of service will depend upon agency needs, student availability and number of credits earned.

The course will include both class time on campus and online discussion groups.  Students will combine theory with practice through reflective assignments throughout quarter.  Relevant artifacts representative of student learning during the site experience will be collected in an e-Porfolio.

For more information on Service Learning opportunities at TCC contact Kari Twogood in Advising, Building 7, or call 253.460.4440.