Project Zero Perspectives: Making, Thinking, Understanding

Service learning is a hands-on, holistically enriching strategy for developing global competence without leaving the country. This course will explore how two institutions–the University of Southern California's Joint Educational Project and the Jewish Community High School of the Bay–seek to enrich service by applying theoretical and conceptual understandings and by encountering the lived realities of others. While the institutions differ in terms of student populations, length of engagement and service sites, both rely upon academic preparation, community partnerships and thoughtful reflection. Course participants will identify the synergies between service learning and global competence and brainstorm service learning projects for their own students, analyzing if/how these projects scaffold their students' global awareness as well as cultivate their heads, hearts and hands.