Community Programs - College of Arts and Sciences

Professor Tim Maher, Chair; Service Learning Instructor Marilyn McElwain, Community Service and Partnership Coordinator Mariana Kalli, Research Director Terri Akey.

The Community Programs Center of the University of Indianapolis is a resource center for students, faculty, and staff involved in community volunteer programs and/or community service learning activities. It exists to provide information and opportunities for service learning placements and volunteer opportunities, information on grants for service learning projects, course development, forms for recording service learning hours on academic transcripts, descriptions of service learning courses, and much more.

The Community Programs Center also offers courses in Community Service Learning and a minor in Civic Engagement and Community Leadership. This program is an interdisciplinary minor with required introductory and capstone courses in community service learning (CSL). The other courses in the minor are discipline-based courses utilizing a service learning approach.

Curriculum

Required

Select at least 12 hours of the following:

SOC-104 Social Problems Service Learning Experience (1)
SOCS-300 Service Learning in Social Science (3)
SOWK-111 Social Work Service Learning Lab (1)
ST-299 Service Learning in the City (3)
ST-299 International Service Learning Travel Course (3)
CVOC-305 Service Learning Experience (3)
HON-320 Honors Service Learning (3)
LANG-400-01 Service Learning in Spanish
LANG-400-02 Service Learning in German

(Additional service learning courses developed in other disciplines will satisfy the 12-hour elective requirement.)

Additional information about the courses listed above can be found in the section entitled Course Descriptions.