Service-Learning for Students
Welcome to Service-Learning at ΢ÃÜè
Service-Learning is an experiential learning pedagogy that moves students beyond the classroom to become active participants in their learning and develop civic knowledge and skills. Students who take Service-Learning courses work with local, national, and international non-profit and public organizations to deeply learn and practice course content by working on a real, community-identified need. Students learn the course material, get to work directly on an issue facing the community, and learn about their communities in the process.
Explore The Different Modes of Service-Learning:
- Tutoring other students and adults
- Conducting art/music/dance lessons for youth
- Giving presentations on violence and drug prevention
- Helping in a homeless shelter
- Creating life reviews for Hospice patients
- Compiling a town history
- Restoring historic structures or building low-income housing
- Removing invasive plants and restoring ecosystems in preserve areas for public use
- Writing a guide on available community services and translating it into Spanish and other languages of new residents
- Conducting longitudinal studies of local bodies of water; water testing for local residents
- Gathering information and creating brochures or videos for non-profit or government agencies
- Planning and putting on public forums on topics of interest in the community
- Conducting public information campaigns on topics of interest or local needs
- Working with elected officials to draft legislation to improve communities
How Do I Find Opportunities Near Me?
Explore our list of community partners that are actively affiliated with Stockton Universities Service-Learning program. If you are finding a partner that is not on this list, please contact Taylor Coyne at taylor.coyne@stockton.edu to begin the process of requesting an affiliation agreement. You will not be permitted to work with that community partner until an affiliation agreement is fully executed.
Student Frequently Asked Questions
When reviewing courses for your upcoming term, you can identify a Service-Learning course in the course description or the course attribute listed as Service-Learning. Once the course is in session, your faculty member will discuss the Service-Learning component and the Service-Learning Coordinator will visit your course to explain Service-Learning further.
GEN 3851 is a Blackboard course that occurs concurrently with your Service-Learning designated course. By completing the four assignments and your Service-Learning project/hours, you will receive Service-Learning "Pass" on your semesters transcript.
Your course faculty member will determine if your service project is project based or hours based. Please refer to them and/or your syllabus.
If you are in more than one Service-Learning designated course this semester, the GEN 3851 Assignments only have to be completed for one of the courses in Blackboard.
The Celebration of Service is not mandatory unless your professor requires you to. However, the Celebration of Service is a great way to showcase your service project to the greater community.
Some faculty will already have established community partners for you to work with whereas others will require you to view our to select a community partner. If you are still having challenges, please contact the Service-Learning Coordinator as soon as possible in the semester.
If you find a community partner on your own, it is required to let the Service-Learning Coordinator know as soon as possible to establish an affiliation agreement. You will not be permitted to work with that community partner until that affiliation agreement is fully executed.
Apply for a Civic Engagement Micro-Grant
As a student in a Service-Learning course, you have the opportunity to apply for a Micro-Grant that will further support and enhance your service project. Please complete the following application by Friday, October 17th to be considered.
