SL: Advocacy Service Learning Level 2

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 10 or more hours on the project.

Type Experience
Level Advanced

Skills

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 10 or more 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.