Service Learning

A number of courses in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology are identified as service-learning courses. Service-learning, according to Loyola’s Center for Values and Service (extracted from Jacoby, 1996), is defined as:

… a form of experiential education in
which students engage in activities that address human
and community needs together with structured
opportunities intentionally designed to promote student
learning and development.  Service-learning includes
the key concepts of reflection and reciprocity.

Our department believes that the pedagogy of service-learning allows our undergraduate students to integrate and experience course content through service work in the Baltimore community. An array of assignments and reflections help the students connect their service experience with the central ideas of a course as well as learn about both themselves and the world around them. Additionally, service-learning is designed to achieve the undergraduate aims of the college through the promotion of justice, the recognition and awareness of diversity, and the development of leadership.

The following courses are presently or have recently had service-learning components:

• SP202    Introduction to Human Communication
• SP203    Introduction to Communication Disorders
• SP307    Speech and Language Development
• SP308    Professional and Technical Writing
• SP312    Cultural Diversity in Communication
• SP405    Organic Bases on Childhood Communication Disorders