Service-learning is the various pedagogies that link community service and academic study so that each strengthens the other. The basic theory of service-learning is Dewey's: the interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. Learning starts with a problem and continues with the application of increasingly complex ideas and increasingly sophisticated skills to increasingly complicated problems**.

Service-Learning Courses

Undergraduate

COMMUNICATION
COM 406 – Community Journalism – Huntly Collins (schedule varies)
COM 407 - Public Relations Seminar – Mike Smith, Robert O’Brien, or Lynne Texter
COM 619 – Public Relations Campaigns – Mike Smith (schedule varies)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CRJ 495 – Ethical Issues in Criminal Justice - Frank Butler

DART
DART 480-31 –DArt Senior Capstone Project- Conrad Gleber

ECONOMICS
ECN 330 - Third World Poverty and Economic Development – Mark Ratkus (every other Spring; even years)

HONORS
HON 313 – Visions of Poverty – Marjorie Allen

LEADERSHIP AND GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING
LGU 200 (Fall) – Introduction to Leadership and Global Understanding – Marjorie Allen
LGU 344 Brazil: Meeting the Global Challenge - Travel Study - Bob Vogel
LGU 370 - Social Justice in the Global Community - Bonni Zetick
LGU 400 – Studies in Leadership and Global Understanding – Capstone – Marjorie Allen

NURSING/HEALTH SCIENCES
HSC 114 - Unhealthy Environments, Healthy Solutions – Sharon Starr, MSN; Meryle Gurmankin, MSN
HSC 223 - Plagues and Epidemics; Past, Present and Future – Sandra Davis
HSC 361 - Health Communication: A Multi-Media Approach – Denise Hammel, MSN
HSC 389 (Fall) - The Health of a Nation: Cultural Diversity and Health Disparities - Sharon Starr, MSN
NUR/NUL 411 – Public Health Nursing – Shelley Johnson, MSN, RN and Ana Maria Catanzaro, PhD, RN
HSC 416/516 - Urban Health: Families and Children in Jeopardy – Sharon Starr, MSN
HSC 451 - Unique Populations: The Health of Urban Men: - Dee Mateki

POLITICAL SCIENCE
POL 151 - American Government - Mary Ellen Balchunis
POL 215 (Spring) – Public Administration – Mary Ellen Balchunis
POL 301 (Spring) – State & Local Government – Mary Ellen Balchunis
POL 310 - Political Parties and Elections - Mary Ellen Balchunis
POL 311 – Women in Politics - Mary Ellen Balchunis
POL 460 & 461 - Political Internships - Mary Ellen Balchunis

PSYCHOLOGY
PSY 220 - Psychopathology – Br. Joseph Burke

RELIGION
REL 353 - (Spring) Social Justice and Community Service – Fr. Ken Hallahan

SOCIAL WORK
SWK 160 – Intro to Social Work – Donna Fiedler (Fall), Gaston Cummings (Spring)
SWK 280 (Fall) and 281(Spring) - Human Behavior and Social Environment I and II – Donna Fiedler
SWK 381(Spring) - Junior Practicum in Social Work—Janine Mariscotti, Leonis Perone, Mary Oleksiak
SWK 480 (Fall) - Senior Practicum in Social Work—Janine Mariscotti, Bonni Zetick
SWK 481 (Spring)—Donna Fiedler

SOCIOLOGY
SOC 150 (Fall & Spring) – Principles of Sociology
SOC 480 and 481 – Research Methods– Br. Tri

WOMEN’S STUDIES
WST 201 – Introduction to Women’s Studies – Patricia Haberstroh

Graduate

NURSING/HEALTH SCIENCES
HSC 516 – Urban Health: Families in Jeopardy – Sharon Starr,
NUR 655 and 656 – Public Health Nursing Track Courses, Field Study I and II – Ana Maria Catanzaro

SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING SCIENCE
SLH 516 – Clinical Practicum and Procedures – James Mancinelli
SLH 521 – Student Teaching in Speech and Language Disabilities – Joan Luckhurst
SLH 616 – Advanced Clinical Practicum and Case Study –Cesar Ruiz