Credits Required
Total credits in the minor: 12
Credits at CSUMB: 12
Prerequisites
You must complete the Community Participation University Learning Requirement as a prerequisite for the minor.
Outcomes, Courses, and Assessment
You must achieve each of the Learning Outcomes designated below by successfully completing the listed courses or alternative assessment options.
LO 1 Service Learning Design and Pedagogy ~ Students know the theoretical roots and various approaches to service learning and experiential education pedagogy; have a working understanding of empirical research in service learning, focusing on cognitive and affective outcomes for student learning and development as well as community development; facilitate service learning and practical experiences, and identify and assess critical components of effective service learning; and assess community service learning as a strategy for (a) creating more just communities, and (b) preparing students for lifelong community participation.
- Complete the following: SL 300S: SL Design & Pedagogy Introduction to Service Learning Pedagogy
LO 2 Perspectives in Service and Social Justice
Students understand theories and issues of social justice, including oppression (and its manifestations at various levels), liberation, coalitions, and alliances; identify and analyze systemic elements that perpetuate injustice in communities; recognize diverse traditions of service and historical service movements, and analyze their relation to the current service movement; and critically analyze the linkages between service and social justice.
- Complete the following: SL 394S: Service & Social Justice SL Service and Social Justice
LO 3 Community and Social Change Processes
Students know various models for grassroots social change, including direct action, policy initiatives, and systemic change; understand communities and how they function, make decisions, and acquire and expend resources; analyze the network of influences and forces (local, regional, national, and global) that affect community life; and engage in effective practices in community building and processes that connect people across difference.
- Complete any upper-division service learning course, as long as not used to satisfy a major requirement.
LO 4 Advanced Application (Capstone)
Students articulate the linkages between service, social justice, and their chosen field of study; complete a Senior Capstone project that is responsive to community-identified needs; gather knowledge with a community and provide information to it in a way that enhances community capacities; and understand their own capacity for service and social justice as individuals working in their chosen field of study.
- Complete one of the following:
SL 492S: SL:Community Research SL Community Research Service Learning
ENVS 497S: Capstone Indep Study:ES/SL Capstone Independent Study: Earth Systems Service Learning
SBS 400S: Senior Capstone I/SL Senior Capstone Seminar/Service Learning I
SBS 402S: Senior Capstone Seminar II/SL Senior Capstone Seminar/Service Learning II - Or choose the alternative assessment pathway, submitting a portfolio to the Assessment Committee indicating how the Senior Capstone project meets this outcome.