Service-Learning Courses
Explore the different opportunities for collaboration with faculty and students through various Service-Learning Courses offered at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the School of Nursing. These courses offer opportunities to address critical priorities which your organization may have identified. The durations of these courses vary based on which term they are offered. Click on the course titles below for full details on course descriptions, submission periods and project timeframes.
What is Service-Learning?
“Service-learning is a structured learning experience that combines community service with preparation and reflection. Students engaged in service-learning provide community service in response to community-identified concerns and learn about the context in which service is provided, the connection between their service and their academic coursework, and their roles as citizens.”
Seifer S.D. (1998). Service-learning: Community-campus partnerships for health professions education. Academic Medicine, 73(3): 273-277.
Service-Learning Courses
More About Service-Learning
Working with a service-learning course is a unique opportunity for a CBO to have students focus on a scholarly project (e.g. data analysis, program evaluations, quality improvement among many other examples) with an individual or group of students who receive mentorship from faculty trained to combine service with academic coursework.
Although most projects are scholarly in nature, many courses work with organizations on typical community service activities (e.g. mentoring/tutoring, beautification projects) as long as they connect to the course objectives.