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Learning through Service

Take a course, earn credit, and improve our community

Service learning engages you in meeting campus and community needs while earning credit toward your degree and building your resume for future employers.

You take a course that includes a service project and actively reflect on your experience and its connections to your understanding of the course subject matter. The service and reflection lead you to a deeper understanding of the course material and your own values. This combination offers insight into your values, helps you explore your purpose, and cultivates empathy, compassion, and a commitment to your community.

Prepare for your career

With applied projects, you’ll solve real problems that affect real people—a skill that you will use in any occupation. You’ll connect with local leaders, broaden your experience, learn more about the jobs available in our region, and enhance your resume.

Our students’ service learning coursework and community engagement activities have included:

Community Public Health Nursing trips to Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota and Central Appalachia to engage health promotion and health screenings for common chronic diseases and child injury prevention.
Graphic design students developing logos and branding in the Design Center.
A case competition to increase engagement with and awareness of Develop New Albany.
Planning and hosting the region’s high school Model UN conference.

Conducting a community Adverse Childhood Experiences survey to help Resilient Jefferson County assess and educate about the connections between childhood trauma and adult outcomes in Jefferson County, Indiana.
Community based research and program evaluation at the Applied Research and Education Center on a variety of topics from community economic development to homelessness and youth development.

Watch for courses that offer Service Learning opportunities and for community based research experiences with faculty.

Service Learning Experiences

Pine Ridge

For the Pine Ridge course, nursing students learn about delivering community health to underserved populations. They spend five days practicing community health at the Lakota Sioux tribe reservation in the middle of the vast rolling prairies and badlands of South Dakota. This immersive learning through service opportunity takes students deep into another culture, with benefits for both them and the reservation.

Two IU Southeast students providing medical care to a man at the Pine Ridge reservation

Group of IU Southeast students pushing shopping carts filled with donation items for the Pine Ridge reservation

Develop New Albany

Group of IU Southeast students present their business recommendations to the board of Develop New Albany In a School of Business capstone course, students apply all the functional areas of business such as accounting, finance, human resources, management, and marketing to an overall real-world strategy for a small business or local organization. Students complete interviews, review industry reports, and conduct a SWOT analysis.

During the Small Business Field Study case for Develop New Albany (DNA), student research formed the basis for recommendations that they presented to DNA board members on the final day of class.

More ways to get involved and get experience

Internships

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