Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
COLP-0002
Organization's ID:
CSL
Organization:
Pearson
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
10 weeks (120 hours) or 15 weeks (120 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 Sociology or Human Services
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to help students document meaningful experience in community service and to foster the development of perspectives necessary for effective community development.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Recognize the theological, philosophical, and theoretical bases of service-learning
  • Develop personal research and plan volunteer-/or vocation-based service-learning projects
  • Design and be personally engaged in examples of service-learning he or she considers meaningful, as based on his or her own personal value system and core beliefs
  • Report on one's success in meeting his or her identified service-learning goals and describe personally-transforming experiences through using various forms of contemporary rich media
  • Demonstrate insights from the life-changing moments of the service-learning experience through journalistic-style writing, creative story-telling, or by meaningful digital images of one's service-learning projects to others using popular social media out

General Topics:

  • Service learning, social entrepreneurship, volunteerism, community service, and project planning
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Computer Based Training
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Presentations
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials