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SERVICE LEARNING Many Gannon professors include service-learning assignments so that students can get handson experience that translates classroom lessons into “real world” settings. Students receive the benefit of rigorous and realistic challenges, while at the same time; community organizations receive the tangible benefits of the students’ work. For example, Gannon Nursing students conduct health screenings for residents of downtown senior apartment buildings, Accounting majors prepare income taxes in nearby community centers, English majors have written grants for neighborhood development, and Engineering students have designed improvements to medical equipment for shipment to international health clinics. There are service-learning assignment built into various courses, research projects, capstones, and many international courses are enhanced with the service-learning pedagogy. Service-Learning supports the development of Gannon students, as expressed in the University’s mission to provide a value-centered education through socially relevant courses that prepare students for lifelong engagement in their communities. Courses marked with the (Service-Learning) designation meet the highlighted criteria in this definition: We refer to service-learning as a credit-bearing educational pedagogy for a course in which students participate in an organized service experience that meets identified community needs and engages the service in such a way as to gain further understanding of course content, the course objectives, a broader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of social responsibility. Unlike extracurricular voluntary service, service-learning is a coursebased service experience that produces the best outcomes when meaningful service activities are related to course material through reflection activities such as writing and small group discussions. Unlike practicum and internships, the experiential activity in a service-learning course is not exclusively skill-based within the context of professional education. (Bringle & Hatcher, 1996 p. 5)
Undergraduate Programs at Gannon University and Proposed Service-Learning Course Designations 2024-2025 College of Engineering and Business Department Designated SL Course Accounting ACCT 420, BCOR 480 Biomedical Engineering BME 354, BME 308 Computer Science CIS 457, CIS 455 Economics BCOR 480 Electrical Engineering ECE 326, ECE 357, CYENG 312 Environmental Engineering ENV 337, ENV 401, ENV 403, ENV477, ENV 494, ENV 495, GENV 577 Environmental Science ENV 337, ENV 401, ENV 403, ENV 477, ENV 494, ENV 495, GENV 577 Finance BCOR 480 Industrial Engineering IE 310, IE 495