Reflective Citizenship

Reflective Citizenship includes projects designed to actively engage students with the challenges of our contemporary world, including:

• study abroad
• mission trips
• service-learning
  

Learning Objectives

The student fulfilling this requirement will:

• Actively engage another culture or an issue(s) important to contemporary society through engagement in a significant project (mission trip or service-learning) or academic study away.
• Reflect on his/her intentional engagement by producing a thoughtful reflection on the project or academic study away.
• Give evidence of synthesis of his/her academic work in the CTI curriculum and the project or study away experience, including articulation of the personal impact of the experience (i.e. what new perspectives were gained, what is the sustained impact).
  

Approved Applied Learning Components

• ACC 431: min. 15 hours per semester for each
  activity
• BUS 361 (SIFE); 430
• CRV 207
• EDU 470; 475
• ENG 220
• JAMS/JAWS: Science Summer Service Learning Project supervised by Science Faculty
• NUR 422ZB: 2 credit-hour ‘away experience’ or
  approved substitute
•  NUR 422 (Parish Nursing): 40-hour experiential
  learning component
• POL SCI: Study away experiences supervised by department chair  
• SPA 211; 226; 306
• All Study Away experiences supervised and
  approved by Director of Overseas Study Programs 
• Summer ’07 Study Away experience to Kenya
  supervised by Dr. Schutte 
• SVL 301
• NUR 460 – IS Honduras study (‘07/08) – Dr.
  Edwards