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Service-Learning Assistance

Learn to design your course or assignment around community service.

Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.

(From servicelearning.org)

Service-learning . . .

• attempts to create positive change in both service recipients (community partners) and providers (students).
• adapts to individual disciplines, courses, and assignments.
• requires students to reflect on how their service contributes to their understanding of course content.
• contributes to Xavier's social justice mission.
• is deeply needed in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Get assistance with implementing service-learning projects into your existing courses, designing new courses around service-learning, assessing and revising current service-learning projects, or designing research projects around your service-learning.

If you are interested in the above service, please contact:

Dr. Ross Louis is an Assstant Professor in Speech Communication. Since the 2008 fall semester, he has been serving as CAT's Faculty-in-Residence coordinating service learning.

Available: fall and spring semesters

Contact information: send a message or call campus ext. 5103

See also: One-on-One Services