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Center for Service-Learning
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Welcome Agency Representatives!
Service-Learning is a teaching and learning
method that connects meaningful community service experiences with academic
learning, personal growth, and civic responsibility. Service-Learning
enhances what is taught by extending students’ learning beyond the
classroom and providing opportunities for student to use newly acquired
skills and knowledge in real life situations in their communities, locally,
nationally, and globally.
The purpose of these programs is to provide
students with educational opportunities in community service by placement
in government agencies, educational entities, civic organizations or citizen
advocacy groups. We maintian a database of over 200 agencies, which include
such diverse locations as:
The Center also serves as coordinator of the campus Service-Learning
programs by maintaining and developing partnerships between college, student,
and community, and offers assistance to faculty in developing courses.
There are two separate modules of service-learning offered at MCC:
Independent Module:
These have been offered to students
since the fall of 1992. Approximately 50 students per semester enroll in
these classes, representing an average of 6,000 volunteer hours to the
community. Students can register for these internship-type courses for
1, 2, or 3 credits a semester. The courses are a blend of academic study
and community service, under the supervision of a faculty member within
the discipline. Core requirements include 50 volunteer contact hours per
credit hour, a learning plan, a reflective journal, an analytical paper
and attendance at three reflective sessions. Credit is given for the learning
that is demonstrated through completion of the core requirements.
Current opportunities for these internship-type
courses are available in the following disciplines: Accounting, Administration
of Justice, Anthropology, Art, Biology, Business (includes Marketing, Business
Law and Management), Business Personal Computing, Computer Information
Systems, Communication, Counseling and Personal Development, Education,
Engineering, English, Geology, History, Math, Music, Nursing, Physics,
Political Science, Psychology, Reading, Recreation, Spanish, Sociology, Social
Work, and Theater.
We provide an on-line orientation for students
to inform them of these courses. Viewing it is a requirement for this class.
These courses are also being marketed as an extra credit option for a regular
class of the same discipline, plus several faculty are offering co-enrollment
with any 282 course. (for example; English 102 & Sociology 101.)
In-course Module:
Integration of Service-Learning into
existing courses allows students to participate in community service in
lieu of a research paper, class presentation or exams. These courses have
grown from none in 1993 to involvement by over forty faculty in the Spring
2002 semester. Volunteer hours given to the community via these options
average approximately 33,000 hours per semester.
Requirements similar to those of the
independent modules are adapted at the discretion of the faculty.
A sample of disciplines that utilize in-course modules are
: Anthropology, Biology, Children's Literature, Communications,
Economics, Education, English,
Geology, Recreation, Sociology, Spanish, and World Politics.
Contact the Center for Service-Learning: email | phone: 480-461-7393 | fax: 480-461-7114
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