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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Nearly 80 Birmingham-Southern
College students are spending the January Interim term this year
involved in service-learning projects locally and around the country,
while many others are participating in creative and innovative study
projects on campus and around the world.
Seventeen students are in John's Island,
S.C., working with the third oldest chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
Their work, which includes everything from digging foundations to
painting, coincides with Habitat's “Building on the
Dream” project over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.
Another group of 15 BSC students is working at
a private inner-city school in Harlem and 13 others are serving
meals and providing other services to the homeless in San Francisco.
Locally, 24 students are working to improve the community of Woodlawn.
Approximately 150 more students are traveling
in Australia, Italy, Honduras, Mexico, Greece, France, Great Britain,
and the Caribbean for courses focused on a single area of study.
Hundreds of other students spend Interim term
in individually contracted study experiences across the state and
nation, as well as in creative course offerings on the BSC campus.
BSC's Interim is a four-week period each
January in which students develop their potential for creative activity
and independent study by exploring one topic or interest. This intensive
program of experiential learning offers students unique opportunities
to be further enriched through on- and off-campus projects, independent
study or research, foreign study experiences, and challenging and
unusual internships.
BSC's Interim is a four-week period each
January that gives students an opportunity to develop their creative
potential and apply their knowledge to generate ideas and projects
they would normally be unable to participate in during the regular
school year.
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