Design a Service Learning course!

The following resources will help you get started on designing a service-learning course. The Tip Sheet provides quick references to identifying service activities, linking course goals to service-learning requirements, designing reflection activities, and other useful tips. The reflection article describes the importance of reflection and brief descriptions of effective reflection activities.

Course Design

Faculty Toolkit for Service-Learning in Higher Education

Extending your Classroom Using Civic Engagement

Reflection

DEAL Model of Critical Reflection

Frequently Asked Questions About Service Learning

Readings on Service Learning

The PULs and Civic Engagement Outcomes and Activities

"S" Courses and the IUPUI RISE to the Challenge Initiative

Assessment Tools

Liability Issues and SL Contracts (page coming soon)

Sample Contract

Models of Student Civic Development

Civic Minded Graduates

Civic Learning Pathways

Civic Identity: Locating the Self in Community by Lee Knefflecamp

Civic Learning Outcomes

AAC&U Value Project-Metarubric on Civic Knowledge and Engagement

A Practical Guide for Integrating Civic Responsibilty into the Curriculum

Civic Learning in the Lumina Foundation's Degree Profile

Building an Inclusive Service Learning Classroom

Individuals with Disabilities and Service-Learning: Selected Bibliography through the Service Learning Clearinghouse
Teaching Tolerance.org - hosted by the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Race Project - sponsored by the American Anthropological Association
Diversity and Service Learning - course planning resources through Colorado State University
The Drama of Diversity and Democracy - publication of the Association of American Colleges & Universities

Syllabi Collections

You can find hundreds of service-learning course syllabi in nearly every discipline at the following sites:

Campus Compact
National Service Learning Clearinghouse
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

Journals

International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning - online access
Partnerships: A Journal of Service Learning and Community Engagement

Special Volume of Acta Academica Supplementum 2005(3), edited by Bob Bringle and Mabel Erasmus, Senior Lecturer, University of the Free State, South Africa. This collection of articles addresses research on community service learning in higher education in South Africa.

Service Learning and Civic Engagement Research Guide--coming soon