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SLC Information Nights

Come hear about SLC from current community members! Ask questions and discover if SLC is how you want to spend your sophomore year!

SLC Open House:
December 7 1:00 P.M.
Alumni GYM

SPIT INFO NIGHTS
Sunday, November 30 9:00pm
Monday, December 1 7:00pm
Tuesday, December 2 7:00pm

Frequently Asked Questions:
What is Service Learning?
Service learning is the integration of academic knowledge, and community based learning. Students act and reflect with other students in order to understand themselves and the world.
What about the time commitment?
SLC students serve each week for 3-4 hours (incl. transportation), take one 3 credit SLC course, and a 1 credit graded seminar, called ‘4th hour’, each semester. Students also attend a community lecture and a community dinner each semester.
What else is required of me for service?
Most service sites have an initial orientation to familiarize you with the work of the agency and skills you need to be an effective volunteer.
How will this affect my housing?
You can be a member of SLC as a resident (Alumni Hall) or non-resident. If you are a non-resident you choose your own housing. All persons living in Alumni must be accepted into SLC. Fulfilling SLC requirements in the Fall and Spring is a condition for living in Alumni Hall!!!
I’m interested! What do I do now?
Complete the application by February 15th and schedule an interview online. Call 610-519-4602 for questions about application and interview scheduler.
Need additional information?
Attend a SPIT INFO NIGHT
OR
Visit the SLC website: For Application: Go to “perspective members” and click on application
http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/undergrad/servicelearning/community.html

Sophomore
Service
Learning
Community

SLC
2015-2016

Live. Love. Serve.

SERVICE
As a part of the SLC community, students are asked to serve 3-4 hours per week at an SLC site. Students form relationships with the community members they serve. These relationships become the focal point of the SLC experience.
Service Sites Include:
McClure Elementary: Serve as a classroom or recess assistant with elementary aged children.
Sisters Returning Home: Work with women ex-offenders re-entering society.
School of the Future, Cristo Rey & KIPP School: Serve as an after-school tutor with high school students.
ACLAMO: neighborhood after school program , ESL
Face to Face Soup Kitchen: Serve meals on Saturday mornings to Germantown residents.
Broad Street Ministries: Resources for the hungry and those experiencing homelessness.
Back On My Feet: Walk and run with persons experiencing homelessness in Philadelphia.
Project Home: Work with people making the transition from living on the streets to shelter.
CHOC: Creating programs for people living in a shelter. Enriching their lives with conversation, film and education.
Ruibal: Lead a Ruibal group.
L.I.F.T.: Serve members of the community who need assistance. Students meet 1 on 1 with clients and connect them with assistance.
LEVEL: Help level the playing field for all regardless of physical, mental or emotional ability.

LEARNING
SLC Approved Courses
The content or focus of an SLC course will provide students with basic knowledge or process of thinking that will help the student engage in intelligent and meaningful dialogue about the issues that affect the communities in which they serve (see list at end of document). They are offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences mostly in Humanities or Social Sciences. There will be core social science courses and core discipline courses, Ethics and upper level Theology. There are NO Nursing, Engineering or VSB courses.
SLC Fourth Hour
Students in SLC encounter the challenges of poverty in the community and learn to care about people who face those challenges. The confrontation of that reality can be overwhelming. Fourth hour is a time to ask questions, to talk about the experience, and to ask why. Why people are poor, why children are not at grade level or why some people live on the streets? You will read, watch films, and write so as to use knowledge to better understand the dynamics of poverty, to seek the truth that is beyond stereotypes or myths and to be transformed by knowledge and experience.
SLC Approved Courses include, but not limited to:
Ethics 2050 Education and Social Justice
Option for the Poor Perspectives on U.S. Poverty
IGR courses Juvenile Delinquency
Politics of Whiteness Multicultural Leadership
Race, Class and Gender

COMMUNITY
The SLC community is more than just the sophomores in SLC. Our community is made up of all the people with whom we study, reflect, and serve. Everyone, from a next-door neighbor, to a child at one of our partner schools, to a person experiencing homelessness or isolated from society, to a classroom professor is an integral part of the SLC community.
Events such as the November Partnership Dinner and April Partnership Day (pictured above) solidify ties between SLC students and the wider community in which they serve.