Accounting

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program. 10-15 student volunteers prepare taxes and efile for low income taxpayers in the community and students/staff.

TAX PREP FOR ACCT401+ STUDENTS

Communication Studies

Students enrolled in the Persuasion (COMM 325) course participate in a group project designed as a service-learning experience. Student teams design a fundraising activity whose proceeds to toward the Communication Studies endowed Scholarship fund.

COMM325

Civic Engagement and Social Work

Service fully integrated into the curriculum.

SOWK302, SOWK403, SOWK260, SOWK 211, SOWK493, SOWK383

ULLC-100: Practicing Social Justice 

Provides an examination of the concepts of oppression, injustice, empowerment and social justice.  Along with developing and analyzing historical, personal and worldview concepts of oppression and injustice, students are challenged to develop concepts of empowerment and social justice that combat oppression and injustice.  Participation in class, campus and community assignments, service projects and functions help students understand and be involved in the practice of social justice.

English

English 311: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Partner: Newport News Public Schools: Sedgefield Elementary School CNU undergraduates are assisting Sedgefield Elementary School teachers by tutoring students who speak English as a second language

ENGL311

English

In English 355 (Writing for Nonprofit Organizations), we partner with local nonprofits. Each student is responsible for 10-15 hours of volunteer work (basically designed to expose the student to the work of the individual nonprofit he or she has selected

ENGL355

English

Each student in English 354 (Public Relations writing) does a public relations campaign for an on or off-campus organization during the semester.

ENGL354

Government

ULLC 100 Good versus Evil: Ethics Crime and Criminal Justice" was a First Year Seminar that required freshmen students to complete 24 hours of volunteer activity in the local community. Volunteer service is to be accomplished in any activity of interest.

ULLC100

History

A number of history majors participated in the State-Department sponsored initiative to bring American students to Morocco. These students helped to host Moroccan students when they visited Virginia in the summer of 2006 and, by spending 4 weeks in Morocco.

MOROCCAN EXCHANGE

Dr.  Andrew Falk,

Dr. Eric Duskin,

Dr. Phil Hamilton

Leadership

L220 Foundations of Leadership Studies: “Project Gadfly.” Students organized events for the campus and community, seeking to “awaken the masses” about a particular issue and inspire action. Projects attracted hundreds of attendees, hundreds of signatures on petitions, and raised hundreds of dollars.

LDSP220

Management

MKTG 320 - Marketing Research: A semester long group project requires the students to find a business and conduct a survey of the basic marketing attributes of the products and/or services the company sells.

MKTG320

Management

MGMT 440 small business institute: student work in groups and perform a complete business analysis of a small entrepreneurship. The final report provides several recommendations that are aimed to help the business to be more profitable and successful.

MGMT440

Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures (MCLL)

This Spanish 321 class (Techniques of Translation and Interpretation), as part of their final group projects in Fall 2007, translated documents from English into Spanish for two non-profit organizations.

SPAN321

MCLL

Upper level students participate in a voluntary project of Service Learning at Denbigh High School every Thursday from 2-4:15pm. I have a contact in the guidance dept with whom I correspond.

UPPER LEVEL SPANISH STUDENTS TUTOR AT DENBIGH HIGH SCHOOL

“LIFE ON THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN BORDER SINCE 1950:LITERARY, ARTISTIC, & CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES OF IMMIGRATION”

This freshman seminar is a three credit course designed to provide students the opportunity to explore and discover how life on the border between Mexico and United States has literary, artistic, social, political and economic effects in our life in America.  Students work with immigrants in the Hampton Roads area who are currently facing these issues as part of a service-learning community project.

PCSE

CPSC395, a CS outreach course

CPSC395

Psychology

Psychology 312 Educational Psychology has a component where the students are required to spend time in the classroom where they serve as volunteers or teacher assistants.

PSYC312

Sociology

Prerequisite: SOCL 392 (Fall and Spring)  The practicum in sociology consists of 150 hours in an approved community setting.  Its purpose is to give students the opportunity to correlate theory with practice.  Written work includes a log and a final paper synthesizing the student's experience.  Practicum must be approved by the department before the student registers. *Same as ANTH 491*

SOCL491

Teacher Preparation

MAT FIELD EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT

Teacher Preparation

Math 570: 12-hour field experience. Students enrolled in the Math 570 (The Teaching of Math) course complete 12 hours of tutoring students at McIntosh Elementary School. The McIntosh students are selected because they are having difficulty in math.

MATH570