Service Learning ~ Overview

Your education is not just about you and your future career. It is also about enabling you to contribute to your community and play a part in bettering the world. Consequently, the service learning program at CSUMB offers you the opportunity to be involved in real-world community issues as part of your academic program, so that you can learn about service and social responsibility as a core part of your education.

Service learning combines formal coursework with thoughtfully organized community service experiences that teach about diversity, compassion, justice, and social responsibility. Service learning courses address community-identified needs while helping students meet academic, social, and civic learning goals. At CSUMB, service learning helps students develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to be multicultural community builders.

Through service and guided self-reflection, students learn about themselves and their relationship to the community around them. Service learning allows students to engage with real-world issues and social problems, and to work with community organizations to become "part of the solution."

Sponsored By

College of University Studies and Programs > Service Learning Institute

Included Academic Fields

Community Service ~ Public Service ~ Civic Engagement

Online Components

None

Associated Course Codes

SL ~ all courses with an "S" following the course number (e.g. LS 393S)

Associated Minor

Service Learning Leadership Minor

Revised 3/25/05