May 16, 2014

Global service learning expansion

Kelsey Laursen ’16 (Wallingford, Conn.) carries concrete during a winter break trip to El Manzano, Nicaragua, as part of the Community Literacy course. The students helped build a high school library for community residents.

PC now offers three semester-long courses that combine a service trip — through a partnership with an international nonprofit organization — with study of the issues affecting those communities and reflection on the response. Sponsored by the Feinstein Institute for Public Service, students can choose from trips to Tijuana, Mexico, or the Dominican Republic as part of Justice across Borders; Ecuador, for Visualizing Peace and Justice; and the newest trip, Community Literacy, in Nicaragua.

For more: prov.ly/globalservice2014