Academic Service Learning Component

Beginning in the fall of 2004, the University Honors Program incorporated an "Academic Service Learning" component.  All newly-enrolled Honors students are required to complete at least three semester hours of service learning prior to graduation. (As with all Honors courses, only a grade of "B" or higher will satisfy requirement.) Partnering with the ECU Volunteer Center and the Pirate Tutoring Center, the University Honors Program will assist students in meeting this requirement by offering a comprehensive list of service learning courses, designed to meet a wide variety of needs and interests.

Service learning is a teaching method which combines community service with academics.  As a result, students are given opportunities to improve critical and reflective thinking skills, and develop civic responsibility.  Service learning presents opportunities for exposure to social problems and forms a civic engagement, and is itself, a form of experiential education under which students learn through well-designed service experiences that meet community needs and relate to a particular area of the curriculum.

For more information, visit the Volunteer and Service Learning web site:

http://www.ecu.edu/vslc/