Live, Learn, Serve: Life Lessons Through Service

Abstract

Service learning is the active participation within the community and the ability to relate the experiences back to the course content, to form a bond between "service" and "learning". Interdisciplinary in scope, service learning can translate into any field of study within a university. As students and later teaching assistants in the service learning program at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, Virginia, we had the unique opportunity to experience the significant benefits of service learning first-hand.