Connecting Classroom, Campus, and Community

The Center for Service and Community Engagement  serves as the main entry point for students, faculty, and staff who want to serve and learn in the community. The Center also acts as the focal point for community-based organizations and government institutions seeking University support to address unmet community needs. The Center encourages all forms of community engagement including direct service, philanthropy, activism, political participation, social entrepreneurship, community-based research, and advocacy. 

If you are interested learning more about working with youth and education through your studies at Seattle U, please check out the courses being offered below!

This summer take a service-learning class with youth in summer camp at YEAH! (YMCA Enrichment, Academics and Health) program.

SUMMER 2013

LBST-126 Youth Development: a Comprehensive Approach to Education

Instructors: Contina Kemp and Eddie Lincoln

Wednesdays 3:15pm to 4:55pm Piggott 305

This course begins an exploration of Youth Development as a holistic approach to educating students in the K-12 system, in particular as it relates to Seattle University Youth Initiative programming. Students will develop an understanding of the need for wrap-around and out-of-school time support to help close the persistent achievement gaps that plague our neighborhood schools, as well as inner-city schools across the country. This is an academic service-learning course.It provides a unique opportunity to learn from youth in the community, connect to Seattle University Youth Initiative and to bring real-life youth development experiences into the SU classroom, and thus integrate this experience with the knowledge gained from the class and the course readings.

FALL 2013

LBST 321 and UCOR 3620 – Critical Issues in Education.   

Instructor: Theresa Ling Yeh

MWF 10:55-12:20, Garrand 114

It counts either as upper level Humanities or Social Science credit in your major. OR it can count for New Core credit when you register as UCOR 3620.

In LBST 321, students study the complexities of education, including: philosophical and historical orientations, purpose of schools and contemporary trends. Students especially explore diversity as reflected in today's school population as well as personal beliefs and attitudes towards diversity. Practitioners such as school counselors, family support workers, education administrators, and other education reformers will likely participate in class meetings.

 This is a service-learning course. All students will spend 2-3 hours a week working in a Seattle Public School. Students who take LBST 321 will be directly engaged in creating a pipeline of support for youth in the Bailey Gatzert attendance zone outlined in SUYI - the Seattle University Youth Initiative. 

For Service-Learning presentations, please review this presentation.