Examples of service-learning projects
Here are some of the service learning opportunities available at SUNY Cortland:
- Collect, analyze, and apply community health-related information. In Community Health (HLH 203), for example, students work with area agencies to
- Gather information about Cortland County’s health needs through surveys and through the use of computerized health data
- Investigate physical, social, emotional, and intellectual behaviors that influence health behaviors
- Identify gaps in community health care
- Design a plan for disseminating information about health care resources
- Mentoring / tutoring children. In Academic Writing in the Community I & II (CPN 102 and CPN 103), students can
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- Apply academic and professional skills such as paraphrasing while helping underprivileged children deal with academic and social challenges. Paraphrasing helps a person understand someone else’s needs and interests; in this way, that person can communicate more effectively with others.
- Integrate service-learning experiences into their essay
- Develop a deeper understanding of outside influences that affect children’s learning and behavior, such as learning disabilities, poverty, and legislation
- Other civic engagement opportunities include
- Creating newsletters and Websites for community agencies
- Participating in electoral projects
- Helping to create community development projects
- Helping developmentally-challenged children and adults
- Fund-raising for nonprofit agencies and projects
- Historic Preservation
- Education resource-development
