Service Learning

Service-learning courses promote a greater understanding of the community and integrate classroom theories with experience by including a fieldwork component with a non-profit agency as part of the course requirements. Service-learning has been a regular feature of certain sections of American Government since the late 1990s. At present, Professor Liz Smith is the department's leading student of the effects of service projects on student learning as well as its most distinguished practitioner. Service-learning projects have been undertaken with a number of agencies in Greenville, but the department's longest relationship is with the Greenville Literacy Association. At the Literacy Association, students learn how important reading, understanding, and speaking English are to effective participation in the political process.

See Dr. Liz Smith for more information.
liz.smith@furman.edu

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