Community Learning

Through engaging in community/service-learning experiences, students develop a wide range of skills and values such as democratic citizenship, political effectiveness, diversity, leadership, interpersonal and intrapersonal interactions and social responsibility.

Community learning courses, also known as service learning courses, include a community-based component that links course content to real-world settings. Approximately 38% of our students are participants in community/service-learning opportunities.

Thirteen academic departments regularly offer community/service learning components:

American Studies
East Asian Studies: Chinese and Japanese
Education
Environmental Studies
Hispanic Studies
Human Development
Mathematics
Music
Slavic Studies
Sociology
Theater

Several first-year seminars have also included a community component.