Service Learning
Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Service-learning classes are marked with an ‘S’ after the course section number. Service learning courses will also have the SRVC attribute, and fulfill the EXED requirement.
Students in ‘S’ designated classes will engage in community-based learning as a way to enhance course concepts and explore social issues and their root causes. In order to do this, students will work on a project for, or volunteer at, a local organization. In some classes, students will be required to complete their service hours at the organization. To learn more about the service requirement, please contact the professor directly.
Instructors: Spring 2022 Service Learning Course Proposal Process: TBA
For questions, contact Christine Shakespeare (cshakespeare@newhaven.edu).
Fall 2021 ‘S’ Designated Course Descriptions
*Note this list is subject to change as the Fall 2021 schedule is finalized.
CJST 1100 01H Introduction to Criminal Justice Kevin Barnes-Ceeney 91290 MW 3:55-5:10PM
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Description coming soon. |
CJST 4430 01S Exploring Delinquency Danielle Cooper 91906 M 5:30-8:20PM |
Interested in exploring beyond delinquency and into the world of justice and injustice for youth and young adults? Join this class to experience diverse narratives about justice-involvement, engage with community partners who advocate for change in the state, and plan campus/community engagement events to encourage others to explore their knowledge. |
DHYG 4460 01S Adv Dental Hyg Concepts w/Lab Robin Kerkstra 10085 M 8:00-9:40
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This course incorporates service learning by exposing students to the necessary didactic concepts needed to treat varying patient populations in lecture and then bringing students into the community into many different settings and giving them hands-on experience in treating varied populations of people. This arrangement greatly benefits both the students and the communities they serve. Concepts relating to serving the local community are taught in lectures about each population the students encounter. For example, difficulties in gaining access to oral health care are addressed in relation to children, the elderly, and those with physical and mental disabilities. The students benefit greatly from their local community and the local community benefits greatly from the students.
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EASC 1107 01S Introduction to Engineering Stephanie Gillespie 90908 TR 8:00-9:40AM
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The EASC 1107 Introduction to Engineering class is a project-based class that will introduce the engineering design process, a framework for solving problems and creating solutions. In this service learning section, you will put your new skills to practice by designing and prototyping solutions in the makerspace for a local community partner! Note that this course has a co-requisite of MATH 1115, but no other technical expertise is needed!
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ENGL 4496 01S ST: Data Storytelling Soc Impact Jenna Sheffield 92602 TR 9:35- 10:50AM
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Data storytelling involves collecting data, creating visualizations with that data, and crafting a narrative that puts the data into layman’s terms so an audience can take action. While data storytelling is a literacy that tends to be associated with improving business outcomes, it can be equally valuable for exploring deep humanistic questions in fields such as English, Art, History, and Music by enabling students to ask new questions about objects of study. This course engages students in learning how to create data stories that will have an impact on the community. English students might create a network visualization of characters in a novel to discover the interconnections between characters. History students might create an interactive map that shows how a particular area changed over time. In this course, students will work on two major projects, first creating their own data visualization of a humanities object and then creating a data story for a local non-profit. By working on a data story with the non-profit, students will see how data and narrative can be combined to have a significant impact on the community. |
ENVS 1102 04S Lab ENVS 1101 Jean-Paul Simjouw 91553 T 11:10AM- 2:00M
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Corequisite: ENVS 1101. A laboratory to accompany ENVS 1101 Introduction to Environmental Science. Laboratory and field methods of identifying, characterizing, and dealing with environmental concepts and problems such as water quality, waste disposal, ecosystem structure and change, population growth, pesticides, and food production. Some field work required. This lab has a service-learning component; students will extend their impact into environmental issues by conducting research into the impact of pollution on a disadvantaged community of their choosing within their local geographical area. Laboratory fee; 1 credit hour. |
MARA 4490 01S Environmental Justice Karin Jakubowski 92609 TR 9:35- 10:50AM
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This course uses a multidisciplinary approach to explore the environmental justice movement by examining historical, current, and emerging issues of inequity of environmental choices, policies, and practices. We will discuss the implications of environmental injustice on already-disenfranchised communities such as low-income and indigenous peoples. We will also discuss how we as individuals have contributed to environmental justice or injustice through everyday decisions and behaviors and how our society has responded to these issues. |
PSYC 2216 02S Child Development Melissa Whitson 90582 TR 11:10AM – 12:25PM
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This course reviews the literature on biological, motor, perceptual, cognitive (including intelligence), language, emotional, social, and gender development in children. Child development history, theory, and research strategies will be discussed, as well as the effect of family, peers, media, and schooling. As part of the class, students will volunteer at a local youth afterschool program. Students will need to be available one afternoon a week (M-R) for 2 hours (e.g., 3:30-5:30pm). By mentoring children, you get to see first-hand how the concepts and theories apply to real life. You will be a developmental psychologist for the semester, and have a better appreciation how this work can improve the lives of children, families, and larger systems. 3 credits. Prerequisite PSYC 1111. |