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SERVICE LEARNINGACTIVITIES
LINKING COMMUNITYSERVICE WITH ACADEMICS

ACCOUNTING 

  • Assist the elderly with their personal finances and preparationof income tax forms.
  • Work in municipal offices and with non-profit groups in theiraccounting departments.

BIOLOGY 

  • Tutor high school students.
  • Help at hospitals and medical centers in physical therapy andradiology departments.

BUSINESS LAW 

  • Handle consumer complaints at the local consumer affairsoffice.
  • Assist clients with legal service forms in tenancy and landlorddisputes and observe court cases.

COMPUTER SCIENCE 

  • Conduct classes for elementary school children and the elderlyon the use of different computer programs.
  • Help the unemployed learn to access the Internet for employmentopportunities.
  • Create data bases and word processing forms for communityagencies.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE 

  • Train in police work with local police departments.
  • Assist at court houses in bail bond tracking and criminal casemanagement departments.

DESKTOP PUBLISHING 

  • Design and prepare brochures for local non-profit groups andmuseums.

ECONOMICS 

  • Research the Internet for demographic information and maintaina data base for county statistics.

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION 

  • Assist developmentally disabled adults with school to workactivities.
  • Tutor communication handicapped children in local schools.

ENGLISH AND JOURNALISM 

  • Write newsletters for local municipal offices and localnon-profit groups.
  • Develop and teach creative writing workshops at locallibraries.
  • Tutor children at after school programs and in adult literacyclasses.
  • Assist local museums with research and writing forexhibits.

FINE ARTS 

  • Teach nursing home residents to paint with watercolors.
  • Photograph community events, and festivals for local non-profitgroups.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES 

  • Use translation skills to help new immigrants completeprocessing forms.
  • Offer bi-lingual story hours to pre-school children at locallibraries.
  • Tutor English as a Second Language students at localschools.

HISTORY 

  • Document the history of a neighborhood using oral historytechniques.
  • Research archives at local museums.

HIV/AIDS EDUCATION 

  • Provide information on HIV/AIDS education to local schools andpeers.
  • Assist with legal research and fund-raising efforts on HIV/AIDSprevention.

LEGAL ASSISTING 

  • Participate in mediating municipal matters.
  • Observe arbitration and small claim matters.

MARKETING 

  • Create needs assessment surveys for local communityorganizations and schools.
  • Prepare promotional material for fundraising events

MATHEMATICS 

  • Tutor adult immigrants who are preparing for generalequivalency degrees.
  • Design math games for pre-school and elementary schoolchildren.

NUTRITION 

  • Design and implement lesson plans for teaching children aboutbasic nutrition.
  • Help prepare food and serve the homeless at soup kitchens.

NURSING 

  • Help with immunizations at local clinics.
  • Assist with patient care at local hospitals and clinics.
  • Provide home health care to the elderly or disabled.

  PHYSICAL EDUCATION 

  • Teach basic exercise classes to the elderly at nursinghomes.
  • Assist with youth programs at local YMCA's.

PSYCHOLOGY 

  • Work with crisis hotline on community outreach.
  • Assist with programs that provide counseling for victims ofdomestic violence.
  • Provide companionship and help with recreational activities forthe mentally disabled.

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY 

  • Assist health centers at blood drives.
  • Assist with outreach programs in schools on substance abuse andHIV/AIDS prevention.

SOCIOLOGY 

  • Mentor at-risk youth at youth shelters and drop-incenters.
  • Work with youth groups to involve the members in communityservice projects.
  • Assist with life skills training for homeless families.

STATISTICS 

  • Compile statistics on HIV/AIDS cases for local socialagencies.
  • Observe and compile results of DWI court hearings for nationaldistribution reports.

WOMEN'S LITERATURE 

  • Advocate for the equal treatment of men and women at home andin the workplace.
For more information on theaward-winning Service Learning program,
call or e-mail Lori Moog,(908) 526-1200 ext. 8284.