Project Community

ts include teaching a creative writing class in a prison, tutoring at a local school, being a "fem-tor" for a teenage girl or volunteering in a hospital. Students who elect Sociology 325: Peer Facilitators are undergraduate student leaders within the Project Community program. After being selected and trained, they take on a number of leadership responsibilities that provide opportunities for personal and professional growth. In addition to the community component, requirements for the course include a weekly 90-minute seminar, readings and written assignments. These requirements, developed by Project Community faculty, staff and graduate student instructors, are integrated in a seminar by a peer facilitator enrolled in Sociology 325: The Sociology of Service-Learning, taught by our faculty sponsor. Project Community's unique design provides many opportunities for learning in the community and in the classroom.