Service-learning means using what you learn in the classroom to solve real-life problems in your community in a way that helps both you and the community.
Service-learning courses are courses where, as part of a class, you practically apply what you are learning by assisting a community organization. It’s a win-win.
The following courses, which have been taught with a Community-Engaged (CENG) component in the past, are useful to anyone who is ready to consider their relationship to the world around them.
Please note:
- The listing below includes courses that have been taught in the past with a community-engagement component.
- The course offerings and inclusion/nature of a community-engaged component in the course may vary each term.
COURSE LIST for Spring 2026
| Course | Description | Instructor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Art and Creative Democracy (ART 366) | This course explores art and creative democracy through individual and collaborative research, project development, community engagement, and reflection on various related topics and concepts embedded in the course. Recently, an increasing number of artists, curators, critics, and arts administrators have begun to turn their energies toward a new type of participatory social practice art that seeks to bring about positive change within a contemporary society confronted by complex issues and challenges on many fronts. To understand our role as citizens in a democracy, we will research the work of artists who critically or creatively examine ideas and forms of democracy. Through a combination of readings, reflections, and research in contemporary art and art history, as well as a class community engagement component, this course will familiarize students with the theory and practice of creative democracy through the emerging field of social practice art and its interdisciplinary, research-based, community-engaged methods. | Brandon Bauer |
| Microbiology (BIOL 350) | A lecture and laboratory course dealing with the study of bacteria, viruses, eukaryotic microbes, and acellular infectious agents. Cell structure, genetics, metabolism, evolution, and ecology will be themes emphasized throughout the course, and other topics such as microbe cultivation, symbioses, pathogenesis, epidemiology, and practical applications for microorganisms will also be included. The laboratory will establish sterile technique and safe handling of microbes, and will focus on the isolation, detection, cultivation, and characterization of bacterial species. Prerequisite: grade of C or better in BIOL 244. | Dr. David Hunnicutt |
| A lecture and laboratory course dealing with the study of bacteria, viruses, eukaryotic microbes, and acellular infectious agents. Cell structure, genetics, metabolism, evolution, and ecology will be themes emphasized throughout the course, and other topics such as microbe cultivation, symbioses, pathogenesis, epidemiology, and practical applications for microorganisms will also be included. The laboratory will establish sterile technique and safe handling of microbes, and will focus on the isolation, detection, cultivation, and characterization of bacterial species. Prerequisite: grade of C or better in BIOL 244. | Dr. David Hunnicut | |
| Educational Foundations (EDUC 101) | This foundational course in the teacher preparation program provides a framework for students to deeply and critically examine societal structures/challenges and their impact on the U.S. education system from multiple perspectives. The course addresses the development of schools as institutions from historical, philosophical, political, and sociological perspectives while considering the students, families, and communities schools serve. These topics are framed by discussions of teachers' roles within the education system. This course has a fee of $215 for Tevera, SNC's teacher education assessment system. Fall semester. | Dr. Mary Marlowe |