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Service-Learning Courses and Syllabi

What makes a course a service-learning course?

1. The course integrates academic objectives with service experiences to facilitate student learning, personal and social growth, and civic responsibility.
2. It utilizes community-based service experiences with clear expectations and responsibilities to address a community need determined in partnership with the community. Participants include faculty, students, community-based organization, and clients.
3. Oral and written reflection on the service experience is incorporated into the course.
4. Learning outcomes are clear, explicit, and structured to maximize the achievement of course objectives.
5. Assessment of learning and evaluation of service experiences by both faculty and students are integrated into the course.

• Service-Learning Course Descriptions 100+ descriptions of courses, sorted according to discipline, offered at Campus Compact member campuses in Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire.
• 101 Ideas For Combining Service & Learning Florida International University
• Assessing Internal and External Outcomes of Service-Learning Collaborations (Campus Compact National Center for Community Colleges)
• The Big Dummy's Guide to Service Learning 27 Simple Answers to Good Questions on: Faculty, Programmatic, Student, Administrative, & Non-Profit Issues
• The Career and Community Learning Center (CCLC) at University of Minnesotra offers students, community partners, faculty and staff a range of information and resources about service-learning and community involvement.
• Community-based Participatory Research Course Syllabi and Course Materials University of Washington
• Community-Linked Interdisciplinary Research Course Description "The African Refugee Population in Buffalo" University at Buffalo
• Educator's Guide to Service-Learning Program Evaluation
• Incorporating Service-Learning in Quantitative Methods Economics Courses
  Non-core economics courses, such as Women and Gender Economics and Economics of Caring, appear to lend themselves more easily into incorporating service and experiential learning than the core theoretical and quantitative courses. The author believes that quantitative courses like statistics and econometrics can also be adapted to successfully incorporate service-learning.
• Increasing Creativity in Economics: The Service Learning Project
  The authors found that the success of the service learning project is affected by the degree of integration among the institution and the public and private community agencies. Through such integration, both the students and the community receive greater benefits from increased knowledge and joint activities.
• Learn and Serve America's National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Library The purpose of the NSLC Library is to collect and disseminate the best information and materials related to service-learning for Learn and Serve America grantees and others.
• Learning In Deed. This site is a tool for becoming informed about and involved in service-learning.
• Putting the Invisible Hand to Work: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Economics
  This book offers an overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of service learning in economics so that economics instructors may begin to design service-learning programs for their own classrooms.
• Self-Assessment Rubric for the Institutionalization of Service-Learning in Higher Education
• Service-Learning and the Economics Course: Theory and Practice
  This paper overviews the recent reexamination of the economics classroom including a discussion of the links between active, experiential, and service-learning. The authors then provide a detailed application of one form of service-learning, student-based instruction, for a managerial economics course.
• Service-Learning Course Criteria Matrix UC Berkeley
• SLICE (Service-Learning Ideas and Curricular Examples) Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Search by discipline or area of service, and add your own examples.
• SLICE (Service-Learning Integrated throughout a College of Engineering) includes service-learning projects for science and math. The Course Offerings button will lead you to a list of courses by dept. and the projects they did each year. The Project Examples button gives more detail about some of the projects including project handouts, where available.
  
• Service-Learning Syllabi at Campus Compact Find resources about course construction, browse syllabi by discipline, and submit syllabi.
• Shumer's Self-Assessment for Service-Learning
• Teaching Economics of Poverty Using a Service-Learning Approach
  Over the last several years, a new concept has been introduced to college curriculum called “Service-Learning”. In an attempt to incorporate this concept into an Economics course, a class was created to study the “Economics of Poverty”. The class drew students from all majors and combined basic economic theory, a survey of literature pertinent to poverty and an experiential learning experience.
• Template and Sample Form Database National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. Numerous templates and forms collected into one central location for easy access.
• Tools and Methods for Evaluating Service-Learning in Higher Education This fact sheet provides a discussion of issues to consider, a summary of websites, and a list of publications that provide background, tools, and resources.
• Urban Studies/Urban Planning Syllabi Several examples may be of interest to you on the Campus Compact website.