Urban Service Experience

Urban Service Experience this past Fall 2008 was a five-day, four-night service learning trip to New York City. This service learning trip is designed as an immersive and experiential opportunity for students to learn more about themselves, others, and the world around them through service experiences in an urban environment. Through group discussion and reflection sessions, students will explore various social justice issues that will arise during their service experiences. During this time, students will be encouraged to compare and contrast their personal experiences with those of one another and the people they encounter as a means of exploring the topics of difference, power and privilege, stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination, and social inequity and injustice.