Courses: This semester-long project is suited for instructors teaching communication courses in health communication, advanced persuasion, applied communication, and media literacy. The pedagogical design features service-learning and integrative-learning (IL) approaches. Objectives: (1) adapt and apply various perspectives learned in the course…

In fall of 2019, a new capstone course, wildlife biology, was offered as part of the biology curriculum at the University of Saint Joseph. The course fully embraced problem-based learning (PBL), project-based learning, and service-learning strategies. It provided a service to the campus community through the task of creating a management plan for…

Students need real-world experience. Industry needs graduating students entering the workforce to be skilled in relevant subject matter, critical thinking, and communication skills. Community-based nonprofit organizations, as well as small businesses, need help in building organizational capacity. Instructors also benefit from periodic observation…

Course: Intercultural Communication. Objectives: After completing this intercultural service-learning activity, students should be able to (1) apply effective intercultural communication skills in culturally different sites; (2) analyze cultures different from their own through service-learning; (3) compare and evaluate course readings with…

Points to the promising application of service learning for students in alternative education. Discusses basic steps for incorporating service learning into the curriculum. Offers examples of such projects. (SR)

Presents an argument for and offers illustrations of service learning in technical communication courses and curricula. Reviews service-learning literature, discussing specifically the advantages of projects to students, faculty, and the community. Describes three projects in which instructors and students integrated service learning and technical…

Provides evidence that teacher educators are able to devise and implement strategies that can surmount some of the barriers to the use of service-learning in pre-service teacher education. (Author/CCM)

Introduces service learning and explores how it can be used in mathematics education. Relates experiences of using service learning in mathematics classes. (ASK)

Seeks to add another vocabulary to the pedagogy of the creative writing workshop: the language of use and action, of practice and implementation. Investigates how to reform the discursive walls between creativity and theory and ends by suggesting how educators might bring classrooms and communities together. (RS)

Describes students' activities in introductory chemistry to fulfill their requirement for service learning. Explains the investigation of the causes for the foul taste of drinking water coming from a specific fountain. (YDS)

Describes a program to reinforce the art-history curriculum; establish a volunteer habit; and impact students' self-esteem, communication, and leadership skills through service learning. Discusses student training and service as docents at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas), and comments on the skills that they acquire through the…

Introduces a geography course that uses a service learning approach to study the Dog River Watershed in Alabama. (YDS)

Describes a model of Team-Based Community Work being developed at Colgate University and relates it to service-learning. Emphasizes the importance of sustained reflective dialogue, a focus on problem solving, team work, partnering with difference, and training with basic skills of organizing and community building in a service-learning project.…

Describes how American and Russian students engaged in service learning in their own communities as part of an organizational communication class in which they learned communication principles and applied their skills to assist non-profit organizations. Describes both projects, stumbling blocks, and course outcomes. (SR)

Describes four important aspects of critical thinking as: identifying and questioning assumptions, seeking a multiplicity of voices and alternatives on a subject, making connections, and fostering active involvement. Discusses theoretical links between critical thinking and ethics. Concludes with a large-scale service learning project that…