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Community and Wesleyan Students Benefit From Service-Learning Courses
This week's fact highlights the work of Wesleyan's Service-Learning Center, which integrates practical experiences outside the classroom with an academic curriculum taught within the classroom.
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Fact #14. Tuesday, March 26th.
Wesleyan offers approximately 20 service-learning courses per year. This year's service-learning courses include "Clinical Experience at Connecticut Valley Hospital" with Professor Donady and "Environmental Geochemistry Laboratory" with Professor Ku, as well as courses on social justice, community development, and local history.
The Service-Learning Center integrates experiences outside the classroom with an academic curriculum taught within the classroom. As one form of experiential education, Service-Learning seeks to broaden students understanding of course content through activities which are, at the same time, of service to the community. Through structured reflection on their service, students are able to test and deepen their understanding of theoretical approaches in virtually any discipline.
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Service-Learning courses start either of two ways: when an interested faculty member looks to incorporate a service component into their academic offering, or when a community organization identifies a need and the Service-Learning Center works with a faculty member to create a course that addresses or contributes research to that need. To learn more about the Service-Learning Center, you can go to their website here.
