D4: Upper Division Service Learning

Students shall take no more than four lower-division courses with the same subject prefix as their major to fulfill their general education requirements.

Students should take one of the following courses only after they have achieved upper division status (60+ units).

Approved Courses

CSU General Education Alignment

Upper Division Service Learning: CSU GE Area D4

Outcomes

1. Self and Social Awareness

Students deepen their understanding and analysis of the social, cultural and civic aspects of their personal and professional identities.

Define, describe, analyze and integrate the concepts of individual social and cultural group identities and the concepts of social privilege and marginalization.
Demonstrate critical analysis of their own assumptions, values, and stereotypes, and evaluate the relative privilege and marginalization of their identities.

2. Service and Social Responsibility
Students deepen their understanding of the social responsibility of professionals in their field or discipline, and analyze how their professional activities and knowledge can contribute to greater long-term societal wellbeing.

Articulate the relationship between individual, group, community and societal wellbeing.
Analyze how individual and professional actions contribute to short-term well being and/or greater long-term societal wellbeing.
Develop a critical understanding of ethical behavior in the context of their profession or discipline with regard to issues of societal wellbeing.

3. Community & Social Justice
Students evaluate how the actions of professionals and institutions in their field or discipline foster both equity and inequity in communities and society.

Examine the demographics, socio-cultural dynamics and assets of a specific community through a social justice framework.
Analyze a community issue(s) in the context of systemic inequity, discrimination and social injustice.

4. Multicultural Community Building/Civic Engagement
Students learn from and work responsively and inclusively with diverse individuals, groups and organizations to build more just, equitable, and sustainable communities.

Demonstrate intercultural communication skills, reciprocity and responsiveness in service work with community.
Enter, participate in, and exit a community in ways that are sensitive to systemic injustice.
Develop and implement personal, professional and institutional strategies, policies and/or practices that work towards creating greater equity and social justice in communities.