Service Learner

The Service Learning Program began in 1994 and more than 240 courses have integrated service learning to broaden and expand students' understanding of local and national social problems.

To find out if your course has a service learning requirement, check out the List of Service Learning Courses for semester. The list is updated until the add/drop date. Most of the courses on the list require service learning. 

If you are enrolled in a Service Learning course, log into your MUEngage account and find your course to view the list of organizations partnered with your course.

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What is the service learning pedagogy?

Service learning is a type of experiential learning that engages students in service within the community as an integrated aspect of a course. Students participate in an organized service activity and reflect on that activity to gain further understanding of course content, a broader appreciation of the discipline and an enhanced sense of personal values and civic responsibility. Within service learning, classroom studies complement service within the community and enable students to reflect upon and address local and national social problems. Service learning engages students in active, collaborative, and inquiry-based learning experiences that meet identified community needs. Service learning classes are offered in many departments and demonstrate the creative expertise of faculty committed to extending disciplinary work into local communities. Service learning not only changes the way students learn, but it changes society’s view of education and service. In this sense, service learning is a philosophy of education and service to the community.

What is Service Learning?

Service Learning is an academic program which enables students to perform meaningful community service related to their courses. Each semester, many professors at Marquette University offer their students a service option as a means to learn in practice what they are learning in theory in the classroom. Agencies and schools in the community benefit from the services provided by the students and become partners in their education as well. Service learning classes are offered in many departments and demonstrate the creative expertise of faculty committed to extending disciplinary work into local communities. Currently, approximately 1,200-1,300 students from 55-65 university courses are placed at 100-125 community agencies each semester.

 
 

Community Service

Service Learning

Internship
Primary Intended Beneficiary Recipient Recipient and Provider  Provider
Primary Focus Service  Service and Learning  Learning
Intended Educational Purposes Civic and Ethical Development Academic and Civic Development Career and Academic Development
Integration with Curriculum Peripheral  Integrated Co-Curricular/
Supplemental
Integration with Curriculum Based on Social Cause Based on Academic Discipline Based on Industry or Career

What is the mission of the Service Learning Program?

Following in the Jesuit tradition of faithful service, the Service Learning Program at Marquette University facilitates student academic learning through meaningful service experiences, which encourage and enable Marquette's faculty and students to positively impact the community. The Service Learning Program seeks to bring campus and community together in partnership to share resources, meet real community needs, and help to educate women and men to become the change agents of tomorrow.