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Faculty Resources

The Bunting Center has a wide variety of resources to assist faculty members in brainstorming, course development and revision, community partner identification and collaboration, and project design, implementation and evaluation.

Successful courses which include service-learning:

Identify and address a need in the community (campus, local, regional, or global)
Meet course objectives and demonstrate a clear connection between the community activity
and the course content
Involve structured reflection through journaling, class discussion, or reflective essays
Invite the community partner to share in classroom dialogue, discussion, and scholarship
Involve reciprocity between course and community that results in students increased civic awareness, leadership, diversity, and engagement

Some BSC courses employing service-learning components include:

SN 350 – Latinos in the US – Barbara Domcekova
MU 150 – Fundamentals of Music – Dorothy Hindman
PS 205 – Community: Civil Society Today – Steve Hendley
PY 313 – Psychological Disorders – Heather Meggers-Wright
HON 280 - Economics of Poverty – Kathleen Rossmann
EH 220 – Literature and the Social Experience – John Tatter
PY 217 – Drugs, Brain & Behavior – Lynne Trench

Available in the Bunting Center Office:

Course Development Grants

$1500 for course revision
$2500 for new course

AAHE's Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines, including volumes on:

Biology, Spanish, Accounting, Religious Studies, Teacher Education, Psychology, History, Political Science, Philosophy, Sociology, Women's Studies, and Management.

Fundamentals of Service Learning Course Construction by Kerri Heffernan

Bibliography of Resources for Service-Learning

Campus Compact's Database of Syllabi