GENA 1115 S-L: Integrating and Applying STEAM Skills in the Community
Course Description
“Service Learning – Make a Difference to Our Community” aims to enable students to use sustainable methods to help local community or socially disadvantaged groups. In collaborating with different NGOs and university departments or research units, students will be introduced to key concepts and theories of sustainable development and explore how to apply them to proposing solutions to the needs and difficulties faced by disadvantaged groups. The course also aims to integrate service and learning experiences through community service activities. It seeks to cultivate students’ leadership skills and foster their self-awareness and empathy towards others and the community. In addition, the program also emphasizes reflection on the quality of service leadership with particular focus on intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies.
There will be different sessions under the course that focus on various aspects of sustainable development, for example, poverty, clean energy, marine pollution, etc. Through the service-learning activities, students and community members are expected to foster their cohesiveness and concerns about the local community.
Learning Outcome
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Enhance understanding on sustainable concepts;
2. Understand and assess critically social disadvantage groups in Hong Kong;
3. Identify and apply sustainable development tools and strategies to address social problems;
4. Initiate and implement a community service project;
5. Acquire and apply knowledge on project development, implementation and evaluation;
6. Integrate the service learning experience with specified perspectives and theories learnt from their own disciplines;
7. Reflect on personal development in relation to their service learning experience.
Sustainable Development Goals
