Service Learning
The Feinstein Center for Service Learning recognizes the following courses as having a service learning component. Service learning is an alternative way of both teaching and learning about concepts or theories. All first-year students are introduced to service learning through their required URI 101, Traditions and Transformations course. The purpose of these courses is to help students make meaningful connections between academic course work and societal issues and needs within the community. The service work is profoundly connected to and enhanced by the specific course of study. Depending on the instructor, the service learning component may be an optional or required part of the course content.
African and African-American Studies (AAF)
380 African-Americans in the Legal System
Community Planning (CPL)
510 Community Planning and Political and Social Change
523 Planning Theory
Community Service (CSV)
101 Introduction to Cultural Competence
102 Cultural Competence Experiences
301 Course-Cased Community Service
Education (EDC)
424 Teaching Literacy in the Primary Grades (service is optional)
429 Emergent Literacy (service is optional)
456 Mathematics Methods in Elementary Teaching
Human Development and Family Studies (HDF)
303 Early Childhood Practicum
380 Field Experiences in Community Agencies
381 Field Experience Seminar
434 Children and Families in Poverty
560 Group Procedures and Leadership
562 Organization Development in Human Services
583, 584 Master’s Internship
Human Science and Services (HSS)
140 Ways of Knowing in Human Science and Services I
141 Ways of Knowing in Human Science and Services II
530 Multidisciplinary Health Seminars for the Elderly
Landscape Architecture (LAR)
244 Basic Landscape Architecture Design
444 Landscape Architecture Studio III: Sustainable Design (Professor Green)
445 Landscape Architecture Studio IV (Professor Green)
Music (MUS)
119 Introduction to the Music Profession
Natural Resources Science (NRS)
309 Wildlife Management Techniques Laboratory
Nursing (NUR)
324 Medical-Surgical Nursing Practicum
344 Practicum in Childbearing and Reproductive Health Nursing
346 Practicum in Care of Clients and Families
434 Practicum in Nursing of Children
444 Practicum in Community Health Nursing
532 Practicum in Primary Health Care Nursing I
534 Practicum in Primary Health Care Nursing II
590 Directed Study and Practice in Advanced Clinical Nursing
Nutrition and Food Sciences Science (NFS)
394 Nutrition in the Life Cycle I
395 Nutrition in the Life Cycle II
Plant Sciences (PLS)
390 Irrigation Technology
Political Science (PSC)
485 Children, Community, and Human Rights
487 Rebuilding Our Communities: Theory and Practice
Psychology (PSY)
442 Psychology of Exceptionality
Sociology (SOC)
497 Field Experience in Sociology
Women’s Studies
150 Introduction to Women’s Studies (some sections)
Writing (WRT)
304 Writing for Community Service
In addition to the courses listed above, specific topics in other courses and some temporary courses may also carry the Service Learning designation.
