Discipline Specific Resources

The following links are just a few of the many links for syllabi and service learning ideas. Most provide links to more ideas and syllabi. The courses listed are designated as service learning or contain a service learning component.

Arts/Drama

• Service-learning ideas for Drama (PDF)
• Visual Art ideas (PDF)
• Modern Art History syllabus (PDF)

Criminal Justice

• Crime and Social Control syllabus
• Violence and Youth Gang service learning project

Education

• Ideas for Teacher Education and for History
• A toolkit on poverty and hunger may be used in Education or Sociology courses. (PDF)
• Read a children's book on line (provided by this site) and the site will donate a book to those who do not have access to books.
• Site authored by Cathryn Berger Kaye and contains curriculum material and links to articles and other resources on service learning.
• Kids Consortium
  Non-profit organization that prepares and connects students, educators and community partners.

English

• College II Composition service learning syllabi
• Introduction to Creative Writing syllabi
• Business Writing service learning course
• English 101 Reading and Writing Self and Society syllabi
• Introduction to Literature, drama-based service learning course (PDF)
• Small group communication syllabi

History

• US History since 1865 - service learning component
• HIS 145 Women, Race & Class is an interdisciplinary examination of the historical institutions, forces and movements that have shaped the status, identities and conditions of multicultural women.
• The Civic Education Project
• Service learning and historic preservation service learning ideas.

Psychology

• Introduction to Psychology service learning syllabi (PDF)
• General Psychology service learning course (PDF)
• General Psychology service learning course (PDF)
• Educational Psychology course service learning component (PDF)

Science

• General Education Biology service learning project
• Biology in Engineering syllabi
• Human Nutrition course
• Information to improve the health of the planet.
• Engages and empowers youth to enact environmental change beginning with water projects.
• Environmental curriculum ideas
• STEM (Science Technology, Engineering and Math) resources from the National Clearing House

Social Sciences

• Poverty and Homelessness in America – service learning components
• Course that analyzes policies and services that promotes or inhibits civil society, enhance or deny human rights, and contribute to the attainment of social justice.
• Intercultural and Minority Relations course
• Gerontology course syllabi
• Housing and Homelessness syllabi – pairs sociological theory and service learning
• Applied Social policy syllabi
• Advanced Seminar on Special Topics in World Hunger: Human Right to Food and Freedom from Hunger
• Introduction to Sociology syllabi
• Social Work Methods III
• Principles and Methods in Human Services syllabi