Individual Service-Learning Internships
Decide Which Placement is for You!
Being in the place you’ve read about, cooperating with local people on social issues and challenges, learning what people in communities feel about what others have written about them: these are the opportunities that lead to deeply engaging and enriching individual service-learning internships. An added benefit and challenge is that you’ll connect with the community partner and service placement on your own. Your opportunities for exchange and your need for personal independence and strength are enhanced.
Once you’re accepted into an individual service-learning internship you’ll
- Make a Difference through community-driven service
- Enhance and deepen your coursework through community-based deliberate learning that is based on a writing and learning proposal you develop in cooperation with an established faculty member
- Form friendships through intercultural immersion and exchange
- Become a more ethical, more engaged, more employable global citizen
- Develop your own personal understanding of service, deliberate learning, culture, and global citizenship through continuous reflective inquiry
It will be unlike any course you’ve ever experienced. It includes all of the normal learning that occurs in any classroom and then deepens it, catalyzes it, and contextualizes it by connect you with the local people, place, and issues that you’ve been reading about.
Amizade Global Service-Learning courses are made possible through a partnership with West Virginia University's Office of International Programs and Center for Civic Engagement. Courses are open to students in good standing at any college or university.