Students desire authentic engagement with the world around them. There is evidence that service learning (SL) or community-based learning (CBL) not only enhances feelings of engagement in the community, but also increases confidence and competence in the sciences. At Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, a multi-semester SL oriented curriculum is being developed and evaluated. “Chemistry for the Community” (CFTC) is currently implemented in General, Organic, Analytical, and Environmental Chemistry. It is designed to be a model that lowers the activation energy for implementation of such practices at other institutions. We will present the structure, goals, activities, and preliminary results from the evaluation of CFTC.

Chemistry for the community: a multi-semester service learning oriented curriculum

ACS Spring Meeting 2021

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