Service Learning Course: Environmental Issues

3 units

This interdisciplinary service-learning experience allows WU students to bring their knowledge and creativity about the many subjects they are studying to students at a St. Louis City elementary school. WU students will learn about the creative process of lateral thinking (synthesizing many variables, working in cycles, and changing scales). WU students will work in teams to experiment with the design of 2-D and 3-D hands-on problem-solving workshops for small groups of students to accomplish. WU students will devise investigations for the workshops about environmental issues embracing fields in the natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, architecture, art, engineering, and business with the community. In this course, we celebrate the choices of studies we each pursue, and we expand our experience by gaining from each other's knowledge bases and each person's particular creativity. This course is for Arts & Sciences students of differing majors and minors, business, social work, architecture and art students, and engineering students from all engineering departments. Course fee applies to mandatory background check and is not refundable.