Project Description

Project Description: Student learning activities entail tutoring/mentoring at highly culturally and linguistically diverse school sites that showcase Sac State student interests and strengths. Students will critically read and engage with historical and contemporary issues and theories that contextualize identity development within a particualar social context. Students will also explore the nature of discourse and its role in framing this particular experience.

Community Partners:Healthy Start, Hiram Johnson High School, Will C. Wood Middle School, Nicholas Elementary 

Project Description: Sac State students will tutor/mentor 3 hours per week at a designated school site that draws on their interests and strengths. Students will engage their readings of historical and contemporary issues and theories to enrich their view as to how identity development is constructed within a social context.

Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School, Healthy Start, Will C. Wood Middle School, Nicholas Elementary 

Project Description: By providing assistance to teachers at Thomas Jefferson Elementary, students experience working with children in classroom environments. In collaboration with their cooperating classroom teachers, students experience developing activities/curriculum/programs to address the topic of "bullying in schools."

Community Partners:Thomas Jefferson Elementary 

Project Description: By providing assistance to teachers at Thomas Jefferson Elementary, students experience working with children in classroom environments. In collaboration with their cooperating classroom teachers, students experience developing activities/curriculum/programs to address the topic of "bullying in schools."

Community Partners:Thomas Jefferson Elementary 

Project Description: The best way to gain an understanding of people with disabilities is through exposure and proximity. This experience will total 10 hours of service in community-based recreation for individuals with disabilities. Students will complete periodic in class reflections and will submit a summary of the experience.

Community Partners:Project PLAY Project Ride Land Park Academy 

Project Description: Students will work with individuals that have genetic abnormalities such as Down Syndrome (extra copy of chromosome 21) and other developmental disabilities. Students will experience the real –life manifestations and social implications of genetic abnormalities studied in the course.

Community Partners:Project R.I.D.E. 

Project Description: Students will write a 10+ page essay about their service learning experience, which will be given to the directors of the organization for their individual purposes. Students will learn to evaluate, analyze, summarize, and use field experience as strategies for writing a lengthy research essay.

Community Partners:Project RIDE St. John's Shelter Sacramento Food Bank 

Project Description: Students will write a 10+ page essay about their service learning experience, whihc will be given to the directors of the organization for their individual purposes. Students will learn to evaluate, analyze, summarize, and use field experience as strategies for writing a lengthy research essay.

Community Partners:Project RIDE St. John's Shelter Sacramento Food Bank 

Project Description: Students will work with persons with physical disabilities and completing case studies where they will be applying concepts and theories presented in class. This includes; completing an activity analysis, recreational therapy assessment, planning appropriate recreation activities, writing treatment goals and objectives, and evaluating the progress of each individual.

Community Partners:Ride to Walk Access Leisure 

Project Description: Students will gain a more direct understanding of social issues affecting families by participating in community-based service learning. Most students will work with individuals or groups in an atmosphere that will reveal family dynamics and how they influence interactions outside of the family. Along with this, students will also begin to learn of the diverse experiences that exist within families. Finally, students in such an environment will gain an up close perspective about how community services and organizations influence the family.

Community Partners:Westfield Village Elementary, Habitat for Humanity, Diogenes, People Reaching Out, Sierra Nueva, Sunbursts, Homes with Heart Foster Family Agency