SLS 2942 Service Learning and Peer Mentoring

This course presents democratic principles of civic engagement and service in the venue of planned service-learning activities. Students engage in supervised training in peer mentoring and in planning and executing active self-sustaining peer assistance programs. Seminar and reflection activities are employed to assess experience and to propose program enhancements.

The course also examines how organizations within the community address the problems, issues and concerns of the community as a whole.