Help Duke Service-Learning Create a Crowd-Sourced Poem!
In celebration of our annual theme, #MakingPlaceMatter, Duke Service-Learning wants to hear your reflections on Durham developed through community-engaged experiences — through poetry!
Request the Service-Learning label!
Duke Service-Learning facilitates the official labeling of service-learning courses in DukeHub, working with the Registrar's Office and the Trinity College office of Curriculum & Course Development. All those who teach academic undergraduate courses at Duke are eligible to apply.
Southbound: Titus Brooks Heagins Visits DSA
As part of the current exhibition, Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Durham-based photographer Titus Brooks Heagins, MFA, visited Durham School of the Arts to conduct a series of workshops with Amber Santibañez’s visual art high school students.
Nuevo Espíritu de Durham: New Spirit of Durham
Be sure and visit the Durham Museum of History for “Nuevo Espíritu de Durham: New Spirit of Durham”! This exhibit will examine Durham’s rapidly growing Latino population, its diversity, challenges and triumphs, and its future as a well-established part of the Durham community. Key topics to be explored will be immigration, building a community support system, developing resources, and activism which will be depicted primarily through the personal perspectives of individual community members.
NC PREMIERE screening of CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion
Wednesday, 9/18, Rubenstein Film Theater. Reception at 6pm, Film at 7pm: The NC PREMIERE screening of CinemAbility: The Art of Inclusion, a documentary that reveals a compelling look at the history of disability portrayals in entertainment. The screening will include a Q&A with filmmaker Jenni Gold. Please attend, and help us spread the word among your friends and networks!
2019-20: Making Place Matter
If you ever stop to think about it, there seems to be an unlimited number of phrases and expressions that include the words place or space. My place or your place, all over the place, out of place, no place like home. Cyberspace, headspace, accessible space, safe space, brave space, personal space. Place and space are essential to knowing who we are. They are directional in the sense that they serve as points along pathways determining where we are at any given moment.
About Duke Service Learning
Duke Service-Learning provides consultation, training, research, and advocacy for the work of faculty, staff, students, and communities to support academic programming that joins communities in promoting social equity and social change.
Service-learning courses build a strong academic foundation by incorporating collaborations with local community partners and translating theory into real-world experience. By exploring the rich diversity of our local and global communities, service-learning courses provide students with opportunities to engage effectively with communities on issues such as the environment, socioeconomic inequities, public policy, health, immigration, education, and more.
For Faculty
A primary goal of Duke Service-Learning is to provide support and assistance to departments, programs, and individual faculty members seeking to integrate service-learning and community engagement into their academic objectives. We offer customized resources, classroom presentations, course funding, service-learning assistants, suggest potential community partners, help you develop assignments and assessment protocols, and provide feedback on your syllabus as requested.
For Students
Courses can feel far removed from the world outside Duke and life after college, but service-learning courses allow you to apply and gain academic knowledge in an authentic setting. With courses in dozens of departments, from Education and Public Policy to Engineering and Computer Science, you’ll find a course that fits your interests, while also providing you with an opportunity to:
- Get to know Durham (Beyond Downtown)
- Make a positive difference in the community
- Apply what you're learning in the classroom to contemporary issues
- Develop a wide range of skills, from cross-cultural awareness to critical thinking, problem solving, and leadership skills.
Upcoming Events
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Immigration in a Divided World
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