Service Learning & Community Engagement - Wingate University
Service Learning & Community Engagement
Service Learning and Community Engagement (SLCE) is a way of teaching that allows students apply course content to help impact real world issues through participatory partnership with community agencies. Service Learning and Community Engagement is rooted in reciprocity, community action and autonomy, and has three cornerstones:
Academic Integrity (Apply Course Content)
Student Ownership (students make meaningful choices)
Apprentice Citizenship (address pressing issues identified with the help of community partners)
The SLCE fellowship program aims to help faculty develop and implement a service-learning course. Fellows will spend one semester learning about best practices in service-learning pedagogy through attending four workshops. The following semester, faculty will implement their course and attend one additional follow up workshop. All fellows receive professional development and coaching as well as concrete materials to help them modify their course to a service-learning approach. Additionally, the program provide faculty with assessment tools and data from their course so that they can engage in scholarship activities, should they choose to. For their efforts, all faculty receive $1,000 stipend.
Service Learning Courses
The Courses can vary from year to year, here are some examples:
REL140
GPS210
GPS310
REL330
ED353
PSY311
W'Engage
White Papers derived from SLCEs:
Reflections on Service-Learning in Tax During a Pandemic Period
Silver Linings: The Sociology of Aging
Food for Thought: Understanding Food Security on Wingate's Campus
How a Non-Profit Adds to the Local Economy
Service Learning in Psychology
Integrating Energy Data into the Classroom
Aging in Action
Service Learning in ACCT 426
Pushing Back: Gender-Based Violence in Society
The Greatest of These is Love: A SLCE Course
Bringing the Global Local
To Hume it May Concern - Ethics as a SLCE Course
Service Learning in the Digital Age
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