SOC 417 - Global Service Learning

Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: SOC 151 or SOC 161 or instructor permission
A forum for critical reflection on community-driven service, cross-cultural experiences, and global citizenship. Progresses through a framework, which explicitly links personal experience and readings with regular writing assignments in a journal and class discussion. Reflects on both the purposes of their service work as well as on its limits as a response to specific needs within the community, and more general problems of social justice. Through the experience of interaction and reflection, students learn to apply knowledge and skills in the real world, exercise critical thinking, develop self-learning and helping skills, develop societal knowledge and sensitivity, and enhance personal development. Explores issues of social responsibility and citizenship in relation to the social problems with which they become acquainted through their community work.