The Center for Social Impact provides instruction for Social Impact Seminar, a 1-credit MGMT 292R course that gives an overview of the Six Pathways of Social Impact through lecture and guest speakers, and for the 3-credit Intro to Social Impact Frameworks and Strategies course in the Ethical Leadership and Social Impact Minor. Students can take this course as a standalone or as part of the minor. Additionally, The Center has partnered with the Masters of Social Work Program in the development and instruction of the 3-credit Macro Systems and Social Impact course.
Additionally, at Utah Valley University, service-learning (SL) is a high-impact teaching and learning strategy that connects classroom learning with real-world community needs. Service-learning courses can be found by looking for the "SL" designation on courses during registration. Through our institutional partnership with the Innovation Academy, the Center for Social Impact helps provide service-learning faculty with the resources and support to incorporate social impact strategy into their service-learning courses.
As a student or faculty member, if you see alignment between a course or department on campus and our approach, please email Cassie Bingham at [email protected] to set up a collaboration meeting or guest lecture.
There are dozens of service-learning credit opportunities at UVU where students will engage in community-engaged projects as part of their coursework. Review the full list of designated service-learning courses and sections for the current semester. Completing service-learning courses are also part of the requirement to receive an Impact Scholar graduation distinction.
Please email us at [email protected] for a list of Service-Learning Courses.
The Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL) offers two Service-Learning trainings for faculty. Sign up for Social Impact Courses Tier I training to learn how to design and teach service-learning courses through the lenses of Roles, Relevance, Reciprocity, Reflection, Risk Management, and Reporting.
Sign up for Tier II to take a deeper dive into incorporating social impact strategy frameworks within your service-learning courses and practice.
Additionally, join the Academic Service-Learning Learning Circle and Community of Practice to join other faculty on their service-learning and social impact journeys. Reach out to Dr. Sean Crossland at [email protected] to learn more.
Finally, a variety of grants are available to fund your service-learning or social impact related research and teaching projects. These include High-Impact Grants, Department Grants and Service-Learning Mini Grants. Please reach out to Dr. Sean Crossland at [email protected] to learn more.
To officially designate a course as a service-learning course, please contact Dr. Sean Crossland at [email protected]. Dr. Crossland will discuss appropriate course development and redesign related to the elements in the Service-Learning Quality Assessment Tool (SLQAT) (form available upon request).
