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What is Service-Learning? By
enrolling in a service-learning course, you gain direct experience
working on the same content, ideas, and issues discussed in class
through working at a community organization a couple hours per week.
With the support of your instructor, you build a real relationship with
a community organization. That relationship is reciprocal- you help the
organization meet its goals, and the organization gives you the
opportunity to develop professional skills and contacts while applying
your academic work to real-world situations. - Service-learning is not an internship.
- Internships
are usually more time-intensive, and offer an independent dive into the
workforce. With service-learning, your experience is directly linked to
course material, where you and your classmates share insights into and
experiences with the work you are doing.
- Service-learning is also not volunteering.
- With
service-learning, you receive course credit for the work you do. And
that work is designed so that you not only give to the community, but
you also gain valuable experience through the work. So, get out of the
classroom and get involved. The experience you will gain, as well as
the good work you will do, is invaluable to your college experience,
and could lead to great things in the future for you and the community.
- Service-learning is not just a program at the University of Minnesota.
- It
is a part of a larger national initiative across higher education.
Service-learning courses are offered across the University, believing
that service-learning brings a deeper connection between the University
and community - expanding the classroom and bringing the outside world
in. It fulfills the civic mission of the university wherein learning is
a social activity taking place within communities bringing together
reflection and experience. As a student, you can become part of this
larger movement of engaged citizen leaders - don't wait - get involved
today!
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