SL: Advocacy Service Learning Level 1

Issued by East Stroudsburg University

This badge is issued to students who successfully complete a service learning project. Service-learning requires students to work on a community issue and reflect on lessons learned. Advocacy service-learning occurs when students learn about a societal issue in class and advocate for policy changes. For example, students write a letter to government officials or hold an event to draw attention to the issue. Students are expected to spend 1 - 10 hours on the project.

Type Experience
Level Foundational
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Earning Criteria

Service-learning is course-based experiential learning that focuses on using academic knowledge to resolve a problem for a community partner. Students apply their expertise to solve the community partner's problem. Additionally, the students reflect on their service-learning experience. So, service-learning has three parts: 1) learning about a community problem; 2) intervening to improve the situation; 3) reflecting on the impact of the learning and intervention on the student.
Advocacy service-learning occurs when students learn about an issue in class and strive to educate others or effect policy change concerning the issue. Students participating in advocacy service-learning become experts in a community issue and actively experience the challenges of changing policy or informing the community.
To earn this badge, the student: 1) Completed a course-embedded service-learning project at East Stroudsburg University. 2) Provided 1 - 10 hours of service by advocating for a social justice cause. 3) Participated in formal and informal reflection on the impact of the service-learning project.