Undergraduate Catalogue
Service-Learning Credit Opportunities
Fourth Credit Option
Many business and liberal arts professors offer their students an additional credit for course work done in conjunction with service to the community. Known as the "fourth credit option," students earn these individual credits by completing 20 hours of service, in conjunction with their course studies. Professors guide the students and provide feedback to them concerning their fourth credit service-learning projects. This option helps students to gain first-hand experience, build their resumes and gain additional academic credits.
Internships
During junior and senior year, students can apply for service-learning internships. For scholarship students, these internships serve as part of their community work commitment. Bringing together and applying the skills they have gained through their commitment to service-learning, they select an individual internship.
Internship students are required to submit an internship proposal to the director of BSLC. If preliminarily approved by the director, the student then seeks out a faculty member from the relevant academic department to act as internship supervisor. The internship is a three-credit course and requires the student to work 15 hours per week at their community site while completing the academic requirements.
Embedded Courses
Some professors also design classes that integrate service-learning directly in the course curriculum. Service initiatives are embedded into the class as a requirement. The initiatives combine class material with community projects. Students have the opportunity to work with organizations while gaining priceless hands-on skills that benefit both the student and the site.
International Service-Learning
In collaboration with the Cronin International Center, the Service-Learning Center offers service-learning opportunities for students studying abroad at the Quinn School of Business at University College Dublin (Ireland), the University of Manchester (UK), Bond University (Brisbane, Australia), and the Lorenzo DiMedici Institute (Florence, Italy). Students in this program participate in projects aimed at assisting nonprofit organizations in these oversees locations. Projects have included designing marketing campaigns, developing web sites, and conducting marketing research. Some projects also allow students to work directly with the clients of nonprofits. This program is available during both fall and spring semesters.
