Caring Heart Service Learning

Caring Heart Service Learning
Course Code
GESC1230
Introduction

Aligning the college founding aspiration, “Learning, innovation, and benefitting humankind,” this course provides students with opportunities to apply their academic skills and knowledge to care for and serve the people in the society. It also enhances the understanding of students of community issues, with an aim to promote students’ apprehension of social inclusion. Students will engage in experiential learning to develop loving and kindness, empathy and respect for diversity. Guided by course instructors or NGOs, students will design and implement service-learning projects. The course concludes with a post-service review in which students will share and reflect on their service-learning experience, re-examine their own self to gain deeper and broader appreciation of how their own discipline and academic knowledge relates to the society, and develop an enhanced sense of civic responsibility and a lifelong commitment.