What Are CSL Classes Doing?

• Professor Ric Alviso teaches "Music from a Global Perspective" and "Ethnic Music from the United States." The service-learning students from each class present in-class lessons, which include a lecture, music samples, video aides and a live demonstration featuring the music of a foreign country. CSUN students appropriately modify the material and present world music tutorials to either elementary or middle school students throughout the area.
  
• Professor Deborah Cours teaches "Small Business Consulting." Service-learning students in this course do consulting work with the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), a non-profit organization serving the North Los Angeles County. They help local small businesses develop and implement marketing plans that will make them more viable establishments.
• Professor Rafi Efrat added a service-learning project entitled "Researching Business Law Issues and Documenting Business Transactions" to one of his core business law classes. His students integrate the legal theories and principles they are learning with real-life legal problems of small businesses. They research and write drafts of documents needed to resolve the clients’ issues and present memoranda of their conclusions and recommendations.
  
• Professor Bobbi Eisenstock leads her service-learning students in a program called "Creating Critical Thinkers in the Media Age: A Workshop for Teachers." Service-learning students create mini-lessons on media literacy for elementary, middle and high school teachers in the community. The students teach the teachers how to deconstruct messages from advertising, TV shows, movies, popular music, video games, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet. Teachers receive a "tool kit" prepared by the service learners to foster critical thinkers in the media age.

And there are many more like these. The Center for Community Service-Learning is eager to help you take a course in your discipline that lets you learn while you serve.