2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Apr 27, 2024  
2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ISS 110 Service Learning on Tour (2 credits)



Course Description
This course is intended for students who are on a study tour or alternative break either in the United States or out of the country. Through a service project, experiences on tour will be enhanced and the forces that shape culture more fully understood. The multicultural insight and direct immersion into social issues of the host community is intended to bring a deeper personal growth experience while on tour.

Course Content
A. Gathering information from multiple sources
B. Multicultural awareness and competency
C. Social justice and economic impacts of volunteerism
D. Teamwork
E. Participation in service
F. Personal growth and reflection
G. Academic and career development

Student Outcomes
1. Use a variety of information-gathering methods and sources to investigate cultural history of host community.

2. Analyze current societal perceptions toward host community culture and toward volunteerism within the framework of social justice.

3. Discuss the current solutions by the host community to local needs, in the context of the service activity.

4. Cooperate as a team, while participating in a service activity in the host community to experience how needs are addressed by the community.

5. Explain and demonstrate teamwork fundamentals.

6. Reflect on personal impacts and roles of participation as a part of a team in the service activity.

7. Explain how the service activity connects to other activities on the tour.

8. Integrate personal learning and volunteer experience into decision-making regarding career pathway.

Degree Outcomes
Multiculturalism: Graduates will demonstrate knowledge of diverse ideas, cultures, and experiences, and develop the ability to examine their own attitudes and assumptions in order to understand and work with others who differ from themselves.

Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information and ideas in order to construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions.

Responsibility: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts and consequences of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20



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