SERVICE LEARNING SHOWCASE
Community Engaged Learning
Welcome! Community Engaged Learning is excited to share some examples of service learning across disciplines. Each of the following courses adopted a service learning project as their strategy for students to obtain one or more course learning outcome.
SERVICE LEARNING COURSE EXAMPLES
Community Engaged Learning supports faculty in developing courses that connect the classroom to the community through a service-learning approach. The following are examples of how service-learning can look in a college curriculum. Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy and can be implemented in a variety of ways across disciplines, the examples here are meant to offer inspiration.
HUMAN NUTRITION (HWE 100)
Sara Griffin, Adjunct Faculty
Sara's Human Nutrition class required a service learning project. The project consisted of a background research paper which complimented a hand out to students and parents from an
assigned elementary school and option of a recipe. The handouts needed to remain at an elementary school reading level. The recipes were supplied by Slow Food Denver ‘Lil Sprouts.
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GEN COLLEGE BIOLOGY I/LAB (BIO 111)
Paul Le, Faculty
Paul's service learning project focused on building curiosity and interest in STEM education among elementary aged youth. His students applied biology concepts to create hands on activities and children's books that they shared with nearby Kyffin Elementary classes.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (PSY 226)
Kyle Kelly
Kyle's students explored the behavior of humans in a wide variety of social settings and the social influences humans have on each other in those settings. His service learning project focused on researching social stigma around mental health and creating commercials targeted at reducing stigma around help seeking for issues related to mental health. Commercials were shown during a campus event.
TAX PREP (ACC 132/133)
Janet Tarase and Laura Sakry
Students learn how to prepare personal income tax returns, then spend 45 hours preping taxes for indivduals with low-incomes through Tax Help Colorado.
TECHNICAL WRITING (ENG 131)
Sara Fall
Most semesters Sara's students apply their technical writing skills to provide solutions for community partners. Most recently, Community Engaged Learning was the community partner. Community Engaged Learning had a goal to increase interest in service-learning among faculty and students, but lacked the expertise or budget to create materials.
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80% OF STUDENTSÂ FELT THAT THE SERVICE PROJECTÂ HELPED THEM BETTER UNDERSTAND COURSE CONTENT.
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