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FAQs
Here are several questions about Service Learning from faculty, students, and community partners. Please send in your questions. These will be researched and posted with the answers in a timely fashion.
In Service Learning there is an intentional effort to engage students in planned and purposeful learning and design assignments that relate the service to the course syllabus and proposed learning outcomes. In community service/volunteering, illustrated by a student organization adopting a local elementary school, rarely is there an intentional learning agenda.
No. Generally, internships occur near the end of a student's educational process and are required to develop and socialize students for a profession. They emphasize student benefits more than community benefits. Service Learning occurs within a specific course, even during Developmental and General Eduation courses and focuses on benefiting the students and community.
Experience and learning are not the same. Learning from an experience requires purposeful and intentional efforts. This is termed "reflection" in the service learning literature.
No, but it is possible and enhances learning outcomes to incorporate Service Learning in any discipline and especially general eduation coures early in the students' college experience
Did You Know?
With more than 40 clubs and organizations, Sinclair's campus life is active and vibrant.
Sinclair's student/faculty ratio of 19 to 1, among the lowest at Ohio's colleges, allows students to receive more individual attention.
Nine of our students have made the Academic All-American First Team for Community, Technical and Junior Colleges—more than at any other community college.
Sinclair has established more than 100 transfer agreements to assist students in transferring to other colleges.