Service learning is active learning that links traditional academics with community service.

Service learning opportunities are designed to deepen and expand classroom learning through thoughtful, collaborative engagement with community organizations, government agencies, educational institutions and the people they serve.

Through structured analysis, critical thinking and reflective writing assignments, students demonstrate that service learning informs and enriches classroom learning.

A key component of service learning is critical reflection on the service experience. Check out these examples of students' critical reflections from recent DU service learning classes.

• Critical Reflection: A Private University Dedicated to the Public Good? (PDF)
  By Desiree Seidel
  Course: Race, Class, & Gender in Schools and Sports (WRIT 1133, Spring, 2012)
  Professor Elizabeth Drogin

• Critical Reflection: More than Just a Required Course (PDF)
  By Jasmine Szympruch
  Course: Race, Class, & Gender in Schools and Sports (WRIT 1133, Spring, 2012)
  Professor Elizabeth Drogin

• Short Film: 13th Annual Jamboree Soccer Event with America SCORES Denver
  Course: Race, Class, & Gender in Schools and Sports (WRIT 1133, Spring, 2012)
  Professor Elizabeth Drogin

• Short Film: Colorado Welcomes: It's What We Do...
  Cheri Young, associate professor in the University of Denver's Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management and Faculty Associate at CCESL, discusses the impact the refugee program had on her and her students.
  
  
• Short Film: Encantado Por El Mar Video
  PINS Grant to complete an Honors Thesis (2012-2013)
  Professors Matthew Taylor and Sheila Schroeder