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Group Perspectives Service Experience

The Group Perspectives service experience engages you in longer-term, meaningful service-learning. Currently approved options include: Participation in a semester with Campus Service Commission, a Fall or Spring Break Justice Journeys trip, or taking a course with a service-learning component.

All students participating in one of these options must pre-register their service experience with the LeadNow program. If you would like LeadNow staff to consider another option, please read through the following criteria and then submit your potential experience for approval.

Learning Outcomes for Group Perspectives Service Experience

Students will be able to:

  • Articulate a beginning understanding that individuals/groups can act to create change
  • Describe how the agency/organization contributes to larger social change
  • Develop an understanding of the related social issue and the complexities surrounding both the issue and those involved
  • Explore the connections between their experience and potential options for action within the context of their own vocation
  • Explain interactions with those from different backgrounds

Group Perspectives Service Experience Criteria

The LeadNow: Group Perspectives service experience, if not already listed as an approved activity, must be approved prior to student’s participation by the LeadNow staff. The staff will review the activity to determine whether or not it meets the following criteria:

          Approval Procedure 

  • In order to satisfy the service requirement for the LeadNow: Group Perspectives certification, a student must first register their experience by filling out the online “pre-service registration” form. This form must be completed regardless of whether the service experience has already been approved by LeadNow.
  • If not already listed as an approved activity, this form will then be reviewed and approved by the LeadNow staff according to the criteria listed below.
  • After completion of the service experience, students must fill out the online reflection form.

          Timing

  • The service experience for the LeadNow: Group Perspectives certification must occur simultaneous with a student’s involvement in the Group Perspectives sessions. Students must have completed at least two Group Perspectives sessions prior to the onset of the Group Perspectives service experience.

          Program sponsorship

  • The program offering the service experience must be sponsored by Concordia College.

          Transition to understanding community change

  • The service experience must be part of a program which illuminates social issues and community change strategies.

          The experience must require a longer-term and/or a more intensive time commitment

  • This requires that a student make a commitment to either service throughout the semester or a shorter, more intensive experience.

          Value of engaging differences

  • The experience must give students the opportunity to engage with people from backgrounds different than their own.

          Must include a strong reflective component

  • Initiated and led by trained facilitators (LeadNow, CSC, Justice Journeys) or faculty members.
  • Enhance the learning occurring through the service by illuminating the complexity of social issues
  • Include both critical and creative thinking elements
  • Occur continuously throughout the experience with formalized reflection sessions occurring at least twice
  • Connect the experience to possible options for action within the context of vocation

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