Service Learning Courses
SRVCLRNG 293 - Learning through Community Engagment
During the fall, students examine how race, class and a variety of historical forces shape students' access to quality education and impact college access for many low-income, first-generation, and students of color.
SRVCLRNG 393 - Advanced Community Service Learning
In the spring, students apply their understanding to an educational issue of choice to research and develop a project or initiative. The courses include a community engagement component that offers an opportunity for each student to engage in a school-based community program at our community partner sites.
SRVCLRNG 298 - Peer Mentorship for College Success
A student-taught practicum course that pairs juniors and seniors with first-year and/or transfer students who identify as underrepresented and/or first generation in a mentorship partnership. This course aims to provide sustainable mentorship in the local and campus community as a strategy for increasing retention among students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
SRVCLRNG 398 - Ambassador Program
This is a service learning practicum that places college students into local high schools and middle schools as college success mentors. Meanwhile, providing frameworks and reflections about community engagement and how the education system affects underrepresented students. Our goal is to bridge academic theory and practice and engage students as college success mentors both in the classroom and within the community through civic engagement and community-based collaborations.