2023-2024 Catalog

SBS-HC209 Community Engagement: A Personal and Professional Journey

This service-learning course examines the role of civic and community engagement in enhancing your personal and professional development. Students will assess their personal values around a chosen area of social justice and conduct 20 hours of community service at a local Boston non-profit organization. In addition, students will examine how businesses can create social change. How can we shift the thinking and look to businesses to solve social problems? Students will learn through this course how various non profits and for profits enhance the local communities in which they exist, and explore the responsibility that, as individuals and professionals, educated citizens have to contribute to the community in a personal and professional manner. This course will satisfy the Local Engagement Requirement.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

SBS Honors required.