Civic Engagement and Service Learning

Community service

Community service and volunteer work can be integrated with undergraduate psychology coursework to serve the community and to deepen students’ learning.

Civic Engagement

Civic engagement is individual or collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern, including individual voluntarism, organizational involvement, and advocacy.

Service Learning in Psychology

Service learning in psychology combines students’ career development with volunteer activities that foster civic responsibility. It helps students understand principles of good practice in community service.

Volunteerism

Volunteers

Volunteering might lengthen your life

Volunteers may live longer than those who don’t, as long as their reasons for volunteering are to help others.
Helping the earth

Why do people volunteer?

Psychologists are studying why people volunteer, and how organizations can hold on to volunteers in the long term.
Volunteer group

Volunteering 101

How do you find an area to lend your expertise—one you’ll enjoy and you know will make a difference?

Get involved

Research

Empirical evidence of the effectiveness of service learning approaches.

Resources

A sampling of materials relevant to working with service learning and civic engagement.

Socially responsive knowledge

Service learning is an effective means of acquiring and applying socially responsive knowledge.

Books

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Date created: 2008